The 5th Conference of the International Association for Japanese Philosophy “95 Years after the Birth of Nishida Philosophy-‘Basho’ as Symbiosis of Non-Human and Human”
Opening speech Mayuko Uehara
It was in 1926 that Nishida Kitarō (1870-1945) formulated the logic of ‘basho’ (place) and published an essay on it. The theme of the 2021 5th Conference of the International Association for Japanese Philosophy (IAJP) will be on Nishida philosophy after 95 years of its birth. Nishida philosophy as a logic of ‘basho’ developed from previous stages of his thinking centered around the concepts of ‘pure experience’ (junsui keiken) and ‘self-awakening’ (jikaku). With the establishment of this logical structure, Nishida developed the logic of ‘basho’ further as a logic of human society and the historical world. We find, with this thematic deepening of Nishida Philosophy, one after another, issues to be probed, such as ‘the relationality of self and other’, ‘life’, ‘body and action’, ‘technology’, ‘art’, ‘human being,’ ‘religion’, etc. Currently at this moment, in the year 2020, the world is being visited by a pandemic and our daily life is no longer as it was. We are thus pressed to revolutionize our view of the world or, to put it differently, we are urged to reconsider the relationship of our social distance with family, friends, colleagues, and others with whom we live, work, and create. Moreover, we are also necessitated to find ways to live symbiotically not only with human beings, but with “non-humans,” organic and inorganic, including viruses. 95 years after the birth of Nishida philosophy, do we have the need now to reconsider the concept of ‘basho’? Do we have the need now to seriously investigate and possibly incorporate the significance of the biologically “non-human” even if this topic was rather thin in Nishida’s own philosophy? The organizers of the 5th Conference of the IAJP would like to invite you to think together with us about “‘basho’ as symbiosis of non-human and human” before and after the pandemic at Nanzen-ji temple in Kyoto.
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- Opening speech
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Mayuko Uehara
Mar. 13, 2021 05:29 English
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- Zen Practice and Experience
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Tanaka Kanju
Mar. 13, 2021 1:03:26 English
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- Habit and the Logic of Basho
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Maki Sato, Jonathan McKinney
Mar. 13, 2021 23:14 English
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- Toward a New Pedagogy of ‘Basho’: Kōyama and Kuki on the actuality of Nishida’s logic
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Nakai Keigo
Mar. 13, 2021 21:42 English
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- Nishida on Transcendentalism
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Mitsuhara Takeshi
Mar. 13, 2021 23:16 English
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- Special Panel Introduction
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Mayuko Uehara
Mar. 13, 2021 03:29 English
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- Technology as a creative character of ‘Basho’
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Murata Junichi
Mar. 13, 2021 17:17 English
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- Nishida and Miki: The “Dialectical World” in the Philosophy of Technology
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Yoko Arisaka
Mar. 13, 2021 15:57 English
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- Tools as a Part of Social Existence: Watsuji’s Understanding of Technology and its Limitation
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Inutsuka Yū
Mar. 13, 2021 14:50 English
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- Special Panel Comments
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Mayuko Uehara, Andrew Feenberg, Murata Junichi, Yoko Arisaka, Inutsuka Yū
Mar. 13, 2021 29:00 English
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- “Historical nature” in Nishida and Kimura Motomori: Nature, culture and education in harmony and struggle
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Takaya Shoko
Mar. 13, 2021 17:55 English
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- Cassirer and Nishida: The Self-Awakening (Expressive-Realisation) of “the Place of the Symbolic”
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Steve Lofts
Mar. 13, 2021 25:07 English
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- Thoughts on Impure Experiences: Unity, Fragmentation, and Nishida’s Junsuitaiken
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Rossa Ó Muireartaigh
Mar. 13, 2021 17:32 English
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- Speech by John Krummel, IAJP president
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John Krummel
Mar. 14, 2021 05:37 English
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- The Phenomenon of Iki and Its Bodily Manifestation
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Yuta Okada
Mar. 14, 2021 18:57 English
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- Zenchiku’s Hollow Places: Encounters with the Non-Human
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Daryl Jamieson
Mar. 14, 2021 24:29 English
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- Scent as place: basho in an atmospheric perspective
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Lorenzo Marinucci
Mar. 14, 2021 17:38 English
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- ‘Demythologizing’ Topology: Nishitani, Kant, and the ‘Standpoint’ of the Subject
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SPK Cerda
Mar. 14, 2021 17:40 English
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- Nishida’s logic and Japanese primatological concept on nature and culture
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Yamagiwa Juichi
Mar. 14, 2021 1:35:00 English
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- Jelby: Religion and Rootedness: life in Nishida and Nishitani
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Morten E
Mar. 14, 2021 30:09 English
Details
- Year/Term
- 2021
- Date
- March 13th to March 14th, 2020
- Faculty/
Graduate School - Others
- Language
- English
- Place
- Ryuenkaku, Nanzenji
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