Seth Millsap

Tokyo Story dir.

Ozu Yasujir,
Japanese director
who began work
in the 1920s and
continued
through and past
World War II.

M
e

Is the value of human bonds and

relations definite in quality or
quantity, or neither?

Confucius
(Kng Fz), a
central Chinese
teacher and
philosopher
who focused
largely on
social ethics.

Cicero, Roman
statesman and
philosopher. In
Renaissance and
more-so in the
Enlightenment, he
is regarded as the
primary influence.

Context: Is the idea that a

rigid, invisible structure exists
behind human social relations
valid?
Findings: There is certainly no
correct answer as of yet, but I
seek to synthesize a number of
varied cultural voices.

St. Thomas
Aquinas, Catholic
philosopher known
as the Doctor
Angelicus who was
a massive influence
on Christian
philosophy,
especially ethics.

Thomas
Malory,
English
knight and
prisoner c.
1485.

Plato,
Ancient
Greek
philosopher,
who, in many
ways, began
the European
conversation
on ethics.

Zhao Qi, modern

Chinese professor
who compares
Western (Thomas
Aquinas) and
Eastern
(Confucius) social
relation ethics.

Immanuel Kant,
a German
philosopher who
is among the most
central Western
thinkers. Much of
his work has to
do with human
experience.