OSAKA UNIVERSITY SHORT-TERM STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM _

02s-3
PHILOSOPHICAL THINKING AND JAPANESE TRADITIONS

Gunshi SATOMI, et al. (Faculty of Letters)

Objective
The purpose of these lectures is to make clear the various aspects of Japanese thought from the past to the present. The course will start from several origins of ideas in Japan. In the intermediate stage, it will focus on the thoughts of some modern philosophers. The concluding hours will be spent on contemporary thinking in people's life and philosophical thinking. The course will be taught by 10 staff members from the philosophy department.

Textbook
None particular.

Lecture outline
Week 1. Japanese view of "Nature" (SATOMI, Gunshi)
Week 2. Indian origin of Japanese religious traditions (ENOMOTO, Fumio)
Week 3. The intellectual history of the Kaitokudo (Merchant Academy in Osaka) (YUASA, Kunihiro)
Week 4. NISHIDA Kitaro as acceptant of European philosophies -NISHIDA and DILTHEY, NISHIDA and HEIDEGGER-- (MIZOGUCHI, Kohei)
Week 5. NISHIDA's philosophy I, concept of "Pure Experience" (YAMAGATA, Yorihiro)
Week 6. NISHIDA's philosophy II, concept of "Place" (YAMAGATA, Yorihiro)
Week 7. TANABE Hajime and the crisis of modernity (NAKAOKA, Narifumi)
Week 8. MIKI Kiyoshi and the crisis of modernity (NAKAOKA, Narifumi)
Week 9. Problem of the mediance (Fudosei) in the ethics of WATSUJI Tetsuro I (MOCHIZUKI, Taro)
Week 10. Problem of the mediance (Fudosei) in the ethics of WATSUJI Tetsuro II (MOCHIZUKI, Taro)
Week 11. Poetry and metaphysics--the thought of KUKI Shuzo (WASHIDA, Kiyokazu)
Week 12. The concepts of "Private" and "Public"¡ÊIRIE, Yukio¡Ë
Week 13. Dialogue and Philosophy in Japan (HOMMA, Naoki)

Grading
Class participation 50%
Term paper to be submitted at the end of the course 50%
(The term paper can be connected to only one of the 13 themes of the course.)