Study on potentialities of Japanese Philosophy in Meiji period

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24652003
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Philosophy/Ethics
• Research Institution: Hamamatsu University School of Medicine
• Principal Investigator: MORISHITA Naoki 浜松医科大学, 医学部, 教授 (70200409)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): BESSYO Yoshimi 名古屋市立大学, 人文社会系研究科, 教授 (10219149) ; LEE Saika 名古屋経済大学, 経営学部, 教授 (10310583)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): TSUDA Masao 岐阜大学, 地域科学部, 名誉教授 (10144099) ; MIYAJIMA Mitsushi 富山大学, 大学院医学薬学(薬学)研究部, 教授 (90229857)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 井上哲次郎 / 西周 / 形而上学 / 同情 / スペンサー / 大西祝 / 日本精神 / 戦後思想

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study the structure of “Japanese philosophy” of Tetsujiro Inoue is philologically analyzed and considered. Through illuminating conflicts among views of philosophy in Meiji middle period, and comparing his view with Hajime Ohnishi’s view concerning philosophy and consciousness, it emerges that the core of Inoue’s philosophy is the unique idea of “Sympathy.” This idea means the cosmological activity toward so compassionate unification that it is here expressed as “Uni-pathy.” In conclusion, Inoue’s metaphysics of “Uni-pathy” had been not only the paradigm of “Japanese philosophy” in the modern intellectual history, but also it remains the same today.

Free Research Field

倫理学