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7Japanese PhilosophersIn Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Blackwell. 2017.Dōgen Kigen (1200–1253 ce) is one of the most revered figures in the history of Japanese culture. A Zen master regarded by the Sōtō School as its spiritual founder, Dōgen is also considered by many to be Japan's greatest philosopher. (The other major contender is kūkai, with whose philosophy Dōgen's shares a number of features.) Possessed of a prodigious and subtle intellect, and master of a strikingly poetic style, he surely ranks among the world's most formidable thinkers.
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73Rude Awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto School, and the Question of NationalismPhilosophy East and West 47 (3): 439. 1997.
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9Alternative Configurations of Alterity in Dialogue with Ueda ShizuteruComparative and Continental Philosophy 14 (2): 178-195. 2022.Alterity, the difference that being-other makes, is not an overt theme in the writing of Ueda Shizuteru, and yet by bringing alterity to the fore we are able to connect and examine several themes that Ueda does engage explicitly. It will turn out that several models of alterity are discernable in Ueda’s philosophy, and their common ground opens a mode of being-other that offers an alternative to dominant models of irreducible difference. Ueda’s philosophy of language suggests four alternative co…Read more
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11The “Philosophy” in Japanese Buddhist PhilosophyIn Gereon Kopf (ed.), The Dao Companion to Japanese Buddhist Philosophy, Springer. pp. 53-69. 2016.The chapters in this book focus on a phenomenon that is named by a conjunction of three terms: Japanese, Buddhist, philosophy. Each of these terms implies a distinction demarcating one domain of inquiry from other related domains: Japanese as distinct from Chinese, Korean, or Indian; Buddhist as distinct from Confucian or Shintō; and philosophy as distinct from religion or psychology. Each of these terms, the three in question as well as their contrasts, reflects a distinctly modern category tha…Read more
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77. Between Individual and Communal, Subject and Object, Self and Other: Mediating Watsuji Tetsurō’s HermeneuticsIn Michael F. Marra (ed.), Japanese hermeneutics: current debates on aesthetics and interpretation, University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 76-86. 2002.
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15The Identity of the Kyoto School: A Critical AnalysisIn Masakatsu Fujita (ed.), The Philosophy of the Kyoto School, Springer Singapore. pp. 253-268. 2018.In the past three decades in the West, literature about the Kyoto School and translations of its writings have proliferated. Yet the very scholarship that perpetuates the name has also created confusion about its reference. Which thinkers belong to the “Kyoto School”? What do they have in common? Do they represent something we can call Eastern philosophy, which pursues a way of thinking fundamentally different from that of the West? Is the core of that alternative philosophy, or alternative rati…Read more
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24Heidegger and Asian ThoughtInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 29 (3): 189-190. 1991.
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25Rediscovering the West: An Inquiry into Nothingness and RelatednessBuddhist-Christian Studies 18 261. 1998.
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57Symposium: Does the Concept of »Truth« Have Value in the Pursuit of Cross-Cultural Philosophy?IsFrontMatter: put either 1 or 0: 1 if this is not an article but a "front matter" type of entry, e.g. a list of books received, 0 otherwise 1 150-217. 2014.The symposium »Does the Concept of ›Truth‹ Have Value in the Pursuit of Cross-Cultural Philosophy?« hones on a methodological question which has deep implications on doing philosophy cross-culturally. Drawing on early Confucian writers, the anchor, Henry Rosemont, Jr., attempts to explain why he is skeptical of pat, affirmative answers to this question. His co-symposiasts James Maffie, John Maraldo, and Sonam Thakchoe follow his trail in working out multi-faceted views on truth from Mexican, Jap…Read more
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21Four Things and Two Practices: Rethinking Heidegger Ex Oriente LuxComparative and Continental Philosophy 4 (1): 53-74. 2012.This article re-orients Heidegger's analyses of things to cast light on two distinct ways of relating to things, one at the root of technological use and the other crucial to artistic creation. The first way, which we may call instrumental practice, denotes the activity of using something to accomplish some goal or objective. This practice underlies the analysis of use-things [Zeuge] that Heidegger presents in Being and Time. Heidegger's contribution there is twofold: to show how understanding t…Read more
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27Bahm, Archie J.(1995) epistemology (albuquerque: World books). Bloom Irene (trs)(1995) knowledge painfully acquired (columbia university press). Bracken, Joseph A.(1995) 77a; divine matrix (new York: Orbis books). Bronkhorst, Johannes & ramseier, Yves (1994) word index to the prasastapadabhasya (delhi: Motilal banarsidass) (review)Asian Philosophy 6 (2): 171. 1996.
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38Rude awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto school, & the question of nationalism (edited book)University of Hawai'i Press. 1995.Zen Buddhist Attitudes to War HIRATA Seiko IN ORDER FULLY TO UNDERSTAND the standpoint of Zen on the question of nationalism, one must first consider the ...
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An Alternative Notion of Practice in the Promise of Japanese PhilosophyIn Wing Keung Lam & Ching Yuen Cheung (eds.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 4: Facing the 21st Century, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. pp. 7-21. 2009.
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Definiranje filozofije u nastajanjuIn Kahteran Nevad & W. Heisig James (eds.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 5: Nove Granice Japanske Filozofije, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. pp. 89-115. 2009.
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Defining Philosophy in the MakingIn James W. Heisig (ed.), Japanese Philosophy Abroad, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. pp. 275-305. 2004.
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35Four Things and Two Practices: Rethinking Heidegger Ex Oriente LuxComparative and Continental Philosophy 4 (1). 2012.This article re-orients Heidegger’s analyses of things to cast light on two distinct ways of relating to things, one at the root of technological use and the other crucial to artistic creation. The first way, which we may call instrumental practice, denotes the activity of using something to accomplish some goal or objective. This practice underlies the analysis of use-things [Zeuge] that Heidegger presents in Being and Time. Heidegger’s contribution there is twofold: to show how understanding t…Read more
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30Is There Historical Consciousness in Ch 'an?'Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 12 (2/3): 141-172. 1985.
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37Japanese Philosophy as a Lens on Greco-European ThoughtJournal of Japanese Philosophy 1 (1): 21-56. 2013.To answer the question of whether there is such a thing as Japanese philosophy, and what its characteristics might be, scholars have typically used Western philosophy as a measure to examine Japanese texts. This article turns the tables and asks what Western thought looks like from the perspective of Japanese philosophy. It uses Japanese philosophical sources as a lens to bring into sharper focus the qualities and biases of Greek-derived Western philosophy. It first examines questions related…Read more
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69Nishida Kitarō was the most significant and influential Japanese philosopher of the twentieth century. His work is pathbreaking in several respects: it established in Japan the creative discipline of philosophy as practiced in Europe and the Americas; it enriched that discipline by infusing Anglo European philosophy with Asian sources of thought; it provided a new basis for philosophical treatments of East Asian Buddhist thought; and it produced novel theories of self and world with rich implica…Read more
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Self-Mirroring and Self-Awareness: Dedekind, Royce, and NishidaIn W. Heisig James (ed.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy Vol.1, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. pp. 143-163. 2006.
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The Alternative Normativity of ZenIn Raquel Bouso & James W. Heisig (eds.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 6: Confluences and Cross-Currents, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. 2009.
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The Contingencies of Kuki ShÅ«zÅIn Hori Victor SÅgen & Curley Melissa Anne-Marie (eds.), Neglected Themes and Hidden Variations, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. pp. 36-55. 2008.
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157Japanese Philosophy: A SourcebookUniversity of Hawaiʻi Press. 2011.This is a set of essays and translations that covers comprehensively all of Japanese philosophy.
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