08s-04
PHILOSOPHICAL THINKING AND JAPANESE TRADITIONS

Yukio IRIE, et al. (School of Letters)

Objective
  The purpose of these lectures is to make clear various aspects of Japanese thoughts from the past to the present. The course will start from several origins of the ideas in Japan, then focusing on the thoughts of modern philosophers, some of which have been involved in disputes about their political effects and implications. The concluding hours will be spent on contemporary thinking in people’s life and the philosophical scene.

Course Schedule
  Week 1 (April 15.) Orientation (IRIE Yukio)
  Week 2 (April 22.) Daisuke Suzuki’s Perception of Japanese Thoughts (IRIE Yukio)
  Week 3 (May 6.) Namba or a Lost Art of Walk (UENO Osamu)
  Week 4 (May 13.) Who is Kojin Karatani? (FUNABA Yasuyuki)
  Week 5 (May 20.) Philosophy of Bushido (SUTO Norihide)
  Week 6 (May 27.) Osamu Kuno and philosophy of civic movement I (MOCHIZUKI Taro)
  Week 7 (June 3.) Osamu Kuno and philosophy of civic movement II (MOCHIZUKI Taro)
  Week 8 (June 10.) The Kyoto School of Philosophy and the crisis of modernity I (NAKAOKA Narifumi)
  Week 9 (June 17.) The Kyoto School of Philosophy and the crisis of modernity II (NAKAOKA Narifumi)
  Week 10 (June 24.) Dialogque and Philosophy in Japanese School Education (HOMMA Naoki)
  Week 11 (July 1.) Intellectual history of the Kaitokudo (Merchant Academy in Osaka) (YUASA Kunihiro)
  Week 12 (July 8.) The thought of MIURA BAIEN (SHIN Hyeon)
  Week 13 (July 15.) Indian origin of Japanese religious traditions (ENOMOTO Fumio)
  Week 14 (July 22.) Iranian culture traveling to Japan in ancient times (DOYAMA Eijiro)
  Week 15 (July 29.) Summary (SUTO Norihide)

Textbooks/Reference Books
  None particular

Grading
  Class participation 50%
  Term paper to be submitted at the end of the course 50%
  (Term paper can be connected to only one of the 10 themes of the course.)