| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
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| Research Abstract |
In the first year (2006) of this research, I studied mainly about the <empathy (Einfuhlung)> theory by Theodor Lipps, which is premised on the transcendental <apperception> of object advocated by Immanuel Kant, and demonstrated that the empathy is dependent on the apperception of consciousness and the correlative-relationship between subject and object. Then, I analyzed the <mono-no-aware> [sympathy with things] as a kind of empathy, on some representative aesthetic arguments by Norinaga Motoori, Tetsuro Watsuji and Masao Kusanagi, and explained that the mono-no-aware is felt directly with things, based on the reverse-relationship between the inner and outer world. In the second and the last year (2007), I compared the empathy with the phenomenological body theory by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the psychological experience theory and the hermeneutical interpretation theory by Wilhelm Dilthey, and the ontological understanding of<being in the world>by Martin Heidegger. Through these comparisons, finally, I demonstrate that the empathy in a broad sense is based on the correlative- and reverse-relationship between subject and object, mind and body; and self and world, therefore it should be grasped as the <understanding of being (Seinsverstandnis)> which synthesizes the inner psychological experience and the outer logical interpretation.
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