Original scientific paper

Tanabe Hajime’s Logic of Species and the Philosophy of Kitarô Nishida

Kôichi Sugimoto

Abstract

This article shall focus especially on Tanabe Hajime’s (1885-1962) »logic of species« (shu no ronri) and Kitarô Nishida’s (1870-1945) response to it. First, I will briefly describe the problems posed by Tanabe’s »logic of species«, based on his two articles: »The Logic of Social Existence« (1934-35) and »The Logic of Species and the World Schema« (1935). In particular I will discuss Tanabe’s implicit and explicit critique of Nishida in these articles. Second, I will consider Nishida’s objections to the logic of species as articulated in his Philosophical Essays II (1937). Third, I will show that, despite both Tanabe’s frequent and unequivocal criticism of Nishida’s philosophy and Nishida’s seemingly irreconcilable objections to Tanabe’s »logic of species«, there in fact exists a common basis which underlies both their philosophies.

Keywords

Tanabe Hajime; Kitaro Nishida; logic; species

Hrčak ID:

202388

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/202388

Publication date:

16.3.2005.

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