Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/jjp.2023.a913633
Maki Sato
{"title":"Guest Editor’s Concluding Remarks","authors":"Maki Sato","doi":"10.1353/jjp.2023.a913633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjp.2023.a913633","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29679,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138625063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/jjp.2023.a913628
T. Kasulis
{"title":"Tokyo School of Philosophy? A Preliminary Reflection","authors":"T. Kasulis","doi":"10.1353/jjp.2023.a913628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjp.2023.a913628","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29679,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138622522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/jjp.2023.a913635
Steve G. Lofts
{"title":"Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism (禅道の千路) by Bret W. Davis (review)","authors":"Steve G. Lofts","doi":"10.1353/jjp.2023.a913635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjp.2023.a913635","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29679,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138624451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/jjp.2023.a913636
David W. Johnson
{"title":"Reply to Laÿna Droz’s Review of Watsuji on Nature: Japanese Philosophy in the Wake of Heidegger","authors":"David W. Johnson","doi":"10.1353/jjp.2023.a913636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjp.2023.a913636","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29679,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138616760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/jjp.2023.a913631
Dennis Prooi
{"title":"Kiyozawa Manshi’s Two Theories of Evolution and Their Western Inspiration","authors":"Dennis Prooi","doi":"10.1353/jjp.2023.a913631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjp.2023.a913631","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29679,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138626551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/jjp.2023.a913634
Griffin Werner
{"title":"Toward a Dialectics of Emptiness: Overcoming Nihilism and Combatting Mechanization in Nishitani Keiji’s Postwar Thought","authors":"Griffin Werner","doi":"10.1353/jjp.2023.a913634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjp.2023.a913634","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29679,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138609885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/jjp.2023.a913630
Yijiang Zhong
{"title":"Race, Buddhism, and the Formation of Oriental (Tōyō) Philosophy in Meiji Japan","authors":"Yijiang Zhong","doi":"10.1353/jjp.2023.a913630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjp.2023.a913630","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29679,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138613124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/jjp.2023.a913632
Maki Sato
{"title":"Ōmori Shōzō and Kotodama Theory: How Can We Overcome the Need for Bodily Encounters?","authors":"Maki Sato","doi":"10.1353/jjp.2023.a913632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjp.2023.a913632","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29679,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138615805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/jjp.2023.a913629
Nakajima Takahiro
{"title":"The Influence of Chinese Sources on the Formation of Philosophy in the Tokyo School: Focusing on Kuwaki Gen’yoku","authors":"Nakajima Takahiro","doi":"10.1353/jjp.2023.a913629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjp.2023.a913629","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29679,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138611076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Confucian state doctrines have shaped Asian cultures for millennia as prescriptive codes of conduct with an emphasis on hierarchy and obligation. Yet a premise at the core of lǐ (禮)—understood as propriety, ritual, or generally a cultural grammar—is authenticity, and authentic respect cannot be commanded. What if the lǐ were to be elegant instead? Hans-Georg Gadamer analyzed play as a fusion of horizons that are absorbed into the same event, co-constituting subject and object in an aesthetic experience, and dissolving their dichotomy. We consider examples from Japanese aesthetics in this framework to give depth to key Confucian concepts: the values that enable a relationality that is not in conflict with autonomy; the points of reference for self-improvement through culture; a social organization that enacts reciprocity; and the essential posture this requires. The radical simplicity of the philosophy of tea, chanoyu, and the aesthetic refinement of the Katsura Rikyū palace illuminate the principle of emotional resonance in encounters, which underlies the fusion of cognitive, ethical, and aesthetic horizons. This view reveals how the relational premise of the Confucian philosophical system entails an ontological commitment to mutuality. This is indeed ethics, but neither particularism nor generalism; in its aesthetic dimension it is the mode of perception of a self fulfilled in play.
{"title":"The Vital Lǐ 禮 in Play: Exploring the Confucian Self in Japanese Aesthetics","authors":"Yi Chen, Boris Steipe","doi":"10.1353/jjp.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjp.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Confucian state doctrines have shaped Asian cultures for millennia as prescriptive codes of conduct with an emphasis on hierarchy and obligation. Yet a premise at the core of lǐ (禮)—understood as propriety, ritual, or generally a cultural grammar—is authenticity, and authentic respect cannot be commanded. What if the lǐ were to be elegant instead? Hans-Georg Gadamer analyzed play as a fusion of horizons that are absorbed into the same event, co-constituting subject and object in an aesthetic experience, and dissolving their dichotomy. We consider examples from Japanese aesthetics in this framework to give depth to key Confucian concepts: the values that enable a relationality that is not in conflict with autonomy; the points of reference for self-improvement through culture; a social organization that enacts reciprocity; and the essential posture this requires. The radical simplicity of the philosophy of tea, chanoyu, and the aesthetic refinement of the Katsura Rikyū palace illuminate the principle of emotional resonance in encounters, which underlies the fusion of cognitive, ethical, and aesthetic horizons. This view reveals how the relational premise of the Confucian philosophical system entails an ontological commitment to mutuality. This is indeed ethics, but neither particularism nor generalism; in its aesthetic dimension it is the mode of perception of a self fulfilled in play.","PeriodicalId":29679,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43402499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}