Philosophical point of view.

When I saw the facebook on a commuter train, I found information of a very interesting study group.

This is the homepage of The Japanese Society for Philisophy and Ethics in Physiotherapy.


On the homepage, the word "Do you know a philosophy cafe?" is stated.
As a physiotherapist, I am most interested in walking training of stroke patients, but in order to promote correct training theory, I think that phisicaltherapists have to learn philosophy first of all.
So it is a great pleasure for me that the study group to teach philosophy for physiotherapists has born.

One of the philosophers that I admire is Professor Kiyokazu Washida.

Professor Washida wrote such a thing in this book I borrowed at the library before.

「分かる、理解するというのは、感情の一致、意見の一致をみるということではない。むしろ同じことに直面しても、ああこのひとはこんなふうに感じるのかというように、自他のあいだの差異を深く、そして微細に思い知らされることだということ。」
To understand with each other is not that emotions and opinion's agree. Rather, facing the same thing, to understand the each other's differences deeply and finely, such as "Oh, this person feels like this?"

「いいかえると、他人の想いにふれて、それをじぶんの理解の枠におさめようとしないということ。そのことでひとは他者としての他者の存在にはじめて接することになる。」
In other words, do not try to put the feelings of others in the framework of your own understanding. By doing so, for the first time, we will be in contact with the existence of others in the true sense.




For example, this is a gait scene of a stroke patient whichＩmeasured today, I think that physiotherapists should think the differences of these pictures from the philosophical point of view.


In February next year, there will be a workshops organized by this study group. I am very much looking forward to it.