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A Philosopher’s Defeat in World War II: Tanabe Hajime’s Conversion to Shin Buddhism in Philosophy as Metanoetics
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Mochizuki, Taro |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | In the last years of World War II, Tanabe Hajime, started writing Philosophy as Metanoetics (the way of zange). He was inspired by Shinran, a thirteenth-century Japanese Shin Buddhist thinker and began to understand philosophy as metanoetics. “a philosophy that is not a philosophy”. Philosophy that is not a philosophy cannot be undertaken by one’s own power, but must be acquired through Other-power. Hence, philosophizing implies the continual act of “practice-faith-witness” (gyo-shin- sho) of the philosopher’s own metanoia, performed by Other-power within himself. This paper argues that Tanabe’s conversion became a creative deconstruction of modern philosophy caused by the cultural encounter occasioned by the war, which generated a dialectical effect in his thinking and eventually led to his conversion to Shin Buddhism. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 14 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.assumptionjournal.au.edu/index.php/PrajnaVihara/article/download/769/685 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
