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Onishi Hajime, mediatore tra Oriente e Occidente

Hajime (1864-1900) è un altro pensatore dell’epoca Meiji. Nato nella prefettura di Okayama, frequentò una scuola cristiana e si laureò in filosofia a Tokyo. Dopo aver insegnato all’università Waseda di Tokyo, studiò filosofia in Germania per poi tornare in patria in risposta alla chiamata dell’università di Kyoto. La sua prematura scomparsa privò il Giappone di un pensatore molto originale, specie riguardo alla questione della fusione tra filosofia occidentale e orientale. Non parteggiò per alcuno dei due fronti, ma preferì operare una mediazione senza scadere nell’aborrito eclettismo. Scrisse queste opere: Sull’origine della coscienza (1890), Logica (1893), Storia della filosofia occidentale (1895), ed Etica (1896).17 La prima e l’ultima hanno una grossa rilevanza etica. Nella Logica ci si confronta con la logica indiana, mentre la Storia della filosofia occidentale è la prima esposizione in giapponese del nostro pensiero dalle origini al XIX secolo. I

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#philosophy #Western-philosophy #ethics #logic

Against Hegel's westering as bestering

My approach is therefore deeply at odds with that of Hegel. I do not see the history of philosophy as the progressive logical unfolding of ‘Spirit’, which…

The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon) #philosophy #history #Western-philosophy #self

Eastern and western philosophies

Nishida once suggested that we can distinguish traditional Eastern and Western philosophies by the East's prioritizing of nothingness and the West's reliance…

Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy) #Nishida #Western-philosophy #philosophy #nothingness

Philosophy engines

The material processes for doing philosophy-speaking, gesturing, writing in alphabetic or ideogrammatic form, or in any symbol system-have a deep effect on…

Philosophy Engines: Technology And Reading/writing/thinking Philosophy #philosophy #thinking #reasoning #Western-philosophy

Tiedemann's history of philosophy starts with the Greeks

The idea that philosophy has a uniquely Greek source and that everything prior to the Greeks is simply not philosophy finds its most powerful modern…

The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon) #philosophy #history #Western-philosophy #culture

Decouple your internal ontology from what you publish

The fact that your internal architecture has been built upon a rich cohesive ontology that fits your requirements, and provides for robust and easy to…

3 More C's Of Ontology Engineering In The Enterprise #ontology #ethics #philosophy #schema #fact

Computers as a new environment for philosophical modeling

Philosophical modeling is as old as philosophy itself; examples range from Plato's Cave and the Divided Line to Rawls's original position. What is new are the…

The Philosophical Computer: Exploratory Essays In Philosophical Computer Modeling #philosophy #logic