Phenomenological research on the affect-event correlation

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K00036
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 01010:Philosophy and ethics-related
• Research Institution: Kyoto University (2020-2021); The University of Kitakyushu (2019)
• Principal Investigator: Ibaragi Daisuke 京都大学, 文学研究科, 准教授 (30511654)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 出来事 / 情動 / 宗教体験 / 危機 / 宗教哲学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study proposes a new pair of affect-event as the basic structure of phenomenality, replacing correlations such as subject-object and noesis-noema, which modern philosophy has mainly used to present an epistemological framework. As the research progressed, this new correlation proved to be effective in explaining the generation of religious experiences. The source of such inspiration lies in the ideas of two Japanese philosophers of religion, Teruji Ishizu and Yoshinori Takeuchi. The rediscovery and reappraisal of their thought is another important outcome of this study.

Free Research Field

宗教哲学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

死や病苦、さらに戦争・災害やパンデミックといった、そのつど特殊な偶発事でありながら人間存在にとって普遍的かつ本質的な危機は、広く社会不安の源となってきただけでなく、古今の哲学・宗教思想を長らく触発してきたテーマでもある。本研究は、こうした論点に関して、新たな認識論的モデルを提起することで一定の哲学的理論化を試みるものであるが、それは個人的・社会的な危機状況の受け止め方を変えてゆくことにも役立つと思われる。