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Voprosy Filosofii

The ideas of Nishida Kitaro, in particular his concept of the “logic of place,” had a significant... more The ideas of Nishida Kitaro, in particular his concept of the “logic of place,” had a significant impact on many Japanese philosophers of the 20th century, and not only those who belonged to the Kyoto school. We can say that the very category of place has acquired the status of a universal cognitive (ontognoseological) metaphor, widely used in a variety of contexts. Nakamura, like many other mod­ern Japanese philosophers, uses the concept of place as a frame that allows us to view reality as a dynamic network of multi-level connections and interactions. The works of the Tokyo philosopher Nakamura Yujiro, whose scientific activity took place in the last third of the 20th – early 21st centuries, is a vivid example of the further development of the theory of place at the modern level, confirming its heuristic possibilities. The article is devoted to the analysis of Nakamura’s views in his books Topos Theory, Common Sense Theory and Predicative World and Systems, which demonstrate the e...

Palgrave Macmillan eBooks, Jan 30, 2015

Вестник МГИМО-Университета, Dec 28, 2012

История философии, Oct 13, 2021

Вопросы философии, Jun 30, 2021

The article is focused upon the Japanese philosophical science progress over the last twenty year... more The article is focused upon the Japanese philosophical science progress over the last twenty years. The author identifies the most significant and widely debated problems during the given period, observes its principal directions and the most prominent works. The following topics are in the center of consideration: modern vision of philosophy as a science, peculiarity of understanding the phenomenon of life, undertaken within the framework of two interconnected integral ap­proaches, defined as “philosophy of life” (seimei tetsugaku) and “philosophy of coexistence” (kyosei tetsugaku), as well as the latest achievements and vectors of expansion in line with the main philosophical areas – phenomenology, analytical philosophy, traditions of the Kyoto school, and Marxism. This is the first attempt to provide general analysis of the latest Japanese philosophical works published after 2000. The interest in Japanese philosophy is dictated both by the existence of a rich philosophical tradition in this country, by the high level of modern philosophical works, that are beginning to be actively translated into Western languages and are increasingly attracting the attention of scholars over the world, as well as by the situation of social demand for philosophical literature in the do­mestic market, additional incentives to steer its development. The aim of the study is to reconstruct a more complete picture of modern philosophical thought, which is marked by lacunae due to the limited availability of a significant body of research published in national languages. Its practical importance lies in the accumulation of an information and creation of an ana­lytical base, allowing to provide orientations for the expansion of scientific cooperation with modern Ja­panese philosophers. The bibliography covers the most important vectors and significant personalities.

Полис. Политические исследования, Jan 25, 2012

Полис. Политические исследования, 2016

Осмысление проблемы модернизации в условиях разворачивающегося мегатренда глобализации представля... more Осмысление проблемы модернизации в условиях разворачивающегося мегатренда глобализации представляет собой крайне актуальную теоретическую задачу. В современной России нередко можно наблюдать произвольное, исходящее из представлений обыденного сознания, оперирование понятием модернизации в политическом дискурсе, что влечет за собой опасности выстраивания оторванных от реальности стратегий развития. В связи с этим весьма востребован комплексный научный анализ нынешнего этапа модернизации, отличающегося культурно-цивилизационным многообразием и многовекторностью, предпринятый философом и социологом В.Г. Федотовой, работы которой “Соотношение академической и постакадемической науки как социальная проблема” (2015 г.)и “Модернизация и культура” (2016 г.) помогают обрести ориентиры в новой системе координат. В статье раскрывается новаторский характер теории Федотовой, которой принадлежит заслуга создания концепций третьего модерна как“нового Нового времени” для незападных стран, национальной модернизациии оригинального анализа типов модернизации. Особое внимание уделяется предлагаемому Федотовой подходу к изучению модернизационных процессов сквозь призму фактора культуры, демонстрируются его эвристические возможности и практическое значение. Также обозначены проблемы и перспективные направления дальнейших исследований модернизации, в том числе предлагается рассматривать традиции в их развитии, подходить к пониманию модернизации с учетом закономерностей межкультурного взаимодействия, принимать во внимание национальные особенности формирования политической культуры при анализе путей трансформации политических и социальных институтов.

Философия и культура, 2012

Философия и культура 11(59) • 2012 все права принадлежат издательству © noTa bene (ооо "нб-медиа"... more Философия и культура 11(59) • 2012 все права принадлежат издательству © noTa bene (ооо "нб-медиа") www.nbpublish.com ПринЦиПы долга и соЦиальной ответственности в истории формированиЯ ЯПонской трудовой и корПоративной Этики ИстоРИя ИДЕй И учЕНИй л.б. карелова Аннотация. В статье рассматриваются мировоззренческие истоки и социокультурные предпосылки формирования принципов долга и социальной ответственности в японской трудовой и корпоративной этике. Автор дает анализ исторических реалий и памятников философской и этической мысли эпохи Токугава (1603-1868) в связи с указанной проблематикой. Японская трудовая и корпоративная этика, зародившаяся в ХVП-IХ вв., оцениваются как одна из причин успешной модернизации Японии, феномена "экономического чуда" после Второй мировой войны и стабильно интенсивного развития страны на протяжении десятилетий, а также как духовная составляющая современного японского дискурса корпоративной социальной ответственности.

Философская мысль, 2021

The subject of this research is the philosophy of Shūzō Kuki, which is usually associated with hi... more The subject of this research is the philosophy of Shūzō Kuki, which is usually associated with his original concept, built around the concept of iki that simultaneously denotes taste, wealth, sensibility, dignity, reserve, and spontaneity, as well as embodies the aesthetic ideal formed in urban culture of the Edo period (1603 – 1868). The Japanese philosopher is also notable for a number of other intellectual insights. For depicting a holistic image on the philosophical views of Shūzō Kuki, a more extensive array of his works is introduced into the scientific discourse. A significant part of these work have not been translated into the Russian or other foreign languages. This article explores the problems of time and space, which are cross-cutting in the works of Shūzō Kuki using examples of such philosophical writings as the “Theory of Time”, “What is Anthropology?”, “Problems of Time. Bergson and Heidegger”, “Metaphysical Time”, "Problems of Casualty”. The research employs t...

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, Dec 28, 2012

Concept: philosophy, religion, culture

The book Philosophy as Metanoetics by the Japanese philosopher Tanabe Hajime written in the last ... more The book Philosophy as Metanoetics by the Japanese philosopher Tanabe Hajime written in the last year of WW2 marks an important turning point in his career which is interesting in terms of the influence of historical events on philosophical thought, the philosopher’s responsibility to society and rethinking of self-image, own existence and methods of philosophy, seemingly topical nowadays.The key topic of this study on late Tanabe is the focus on philosophy as on a self-critical process, taking place in parallel with the inner rebirth of philosopher.The result of the rethinking of the Western philosophy foundations of Tanabe in his inquiry on the subject, philosophy of history, absolute mediation, idea of freedom, problem of the Evil, dialectics was primarily critical. This rethinking manifested itself in Tanabe’s appeal to national spiritual tradition, a religious philosophy combining separate Buddhist doctrines, in particular the teachings of Shinran and the Jodo school.The exampl...

Voprosy Filosofii

The problems of time and history are of particular relevance at the turning points in the develop... more The problems of time and history are of particular relevance at the turning points in the development of human society, which can be considered to be the beginning of the 21st century. At the same time, in a changing world, it is important to take into account the ideas about time and history that have arisen in various cultural and civilizational areas. The article analyzes the attempt of a Japanese philosopher Nishitani Keiji belonging to the Kyoto school to for­mulate a modern concept of history based on the Buddhist view of the world and time. Unlike other religious and philosophical traditions, Buddhist thought practically did not touch upon topics related to history. Using Nishitani's philo­sophy as an example, the author tries to demonstrate the specifics of the modern Buddhist approach to understanding time and history and to determine its heur­istic potential. Due to the fact that today the narrative view of history prevails, introducing a value component into the under...

Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences, 2018

Since the role of the Asian countries is increasing in the modern world, their philosophical trad... more Since the role of the Asian countries is increasing in the modern world, their philosophical traditions attract more and more attention. Due to this trend, a more complete panoramic view of the development of world philosophy as a whole is accessible, and it has become possible to understand that any constructions of the human mind that have arisen in a particular cultural field of experience cannot be regarded as exemplary and absolute. The researchers of Asian philosophies concentrate mostly on studying the texts of individual thinkers. As a rule, they do not set themselves the task of examining these texts from the point of view of intercultural interactions and transformations of significant ideas and concepts in various cultural and historical contexts, defining the direction and mechanisms of cultural borrowing, as well as revealing new approaches and growth points. To achieve these goals, the research should focus at the problem of the self-determination and development of ph...

Полис. Политические исследования (Polis. Political Studies), 2014

Исследование выполнено в Институте социологии Российской академии наук при поддержке гранта Росси... more Исследование выполнено в Институте социологии Российской академии наук при поддержке гранта Российского научного фонда (проект №14-28-00218).

Concept: philosophy, religion, culture, 2021

The article introduces and reconstructs the main ideas of the book Experience and Thought by Mori... more The article introduces and reconstructs the main ideas of the book Experience and Thought by Mori Arimasa. Released in the form of journal publications in 1970–1972, it has never been translated into European languages. The Japanese philosopher who spent a large part of his life in France undertakes a comparative analysis of the socio-cultural and linguistic foundations of the experience of the Japanese and Europeans. The article examines the main aspects of Mori’s concept of experience: understanding experience as a reality and as a subject, separation of two forms of experience — universal and personal, the relationship between experience and language and between experience and thought, the theory of binary connections and second person world, designed to identify and explain the underlying prerequisites that determine the specific character of the experience of the Japanese. The author of the article shows that Mori confirms his own thesis that the primary experience of a person ...

Voprosy Filosofii, 2020

The study of philosophical teachings through the prism of intercultural philo­sophical dialogue p... more The study of philosophical teachings through the prism of intercultural philo­sophical dialogue provides an opportunity for a broader view of the history of philosophy overcoming the framework of the East-West dichotomy the limita­tions of which are becoming more and more obvious over time. This article is a further step in this direction. It demonstrates what aspects of Hegel’s thought were taken by Japanese thinkers of Kyoto School and how they were developed in new philosophical and cultural context. In particular, such moments as the concepts of the unity of logic and metaphysics, logic and the historical pro­cess, the scheme of correlation of the absolute and the world, the principles of negation, double negation, contradiction, the dialectic of identity and difference, direct and mediation, individual, special and universal, became the object of con­sideration. The author makes an attempt to reveal the mechanisms of perception and adaptation of elements of a seemingly completely alien religious and cultural tradition. She offers her vision of character and degree of Hegel’s influence upon Nishida Kitaro and Tanabe Hajime, arguing that the points in the teachings of the German philosopher relevant to the key doctrines of Mahayana Buddhism were most attractive to them. The article concludes that Japanese thinkers, not being followers of Hegel, nevertheless made extensive use of his conceptual tools, approaches, and logical constructions to express their own ideas. Equally important is the fact that the appeal of Japanese philosophers to Hegel allowed them to more clearly define their own position regarding the central idea of their philosophy.

Ideas and Ideals

Ability of knowledge and thinking operations, such as abstraction, comparison syllogisms and so o... more Ability of knowledge and thinking operations, such as abstraction, comparison syllogisms and so on, are of course common to all peoples. Nevertheless, when referring to this or that specifi c cultural material, the problem of the existence of separate epistemic cultures arises. Contemporary research on epistemological diversity relies primarily on methods of analytic epistemology and focuses on identifying examples of ‘cross-linguistic divergence’ at the semantic level. The concepts of ‘know’ and ‘knowledge’ often become the object of research. However, there are suffi cient grounds for identifying and studying epistemic cultures also in terms of other parameters. This article is focused upon highlighting these parameters by referring to examples of the history of the Japanese spiritual tradition associated with Buddhist and Confucian teachings. In particular, the author examines the Buddhist doctrines of two truths and the identity of absolute being and the phenomenal world, as wel...

History of Philosophy

The name of Seiichi Hatano (1877–1950) is still not so widely known outside of Japan. At the same... more The name of Seiichi Hatano (1877–1950) is still not so widely known outside of Japan. At the same time, he belongs to those outstanding Japanese thinkers of the first half of the twentieth century, who not only introduced to their compatriots the history of Western philosophy, but also acted as generators of original concepts created on the basis of deep critical understanding of the Western intellectual heritage. The article deals with the reconstruction of Seiichi Hatano’s theory of time, formulated in his monograph “Time and Eternity” (1943), which crowned his creative career. The starting point of Hatano’s philosophy of time were studies of the basic human experience, which he interpreted in terms of the flow of life and the interaction of the Self and the Other. The subject of the Japanese thinker’s special interest was the problem of overcoming temporality. Hatano’s original contribution to the theory of time was the creation of the three-fold scheme of temporality, considered...

Sociological Journal

The research was focused on the political identity dynamics of the Japanese people through their ... more The research was focused on the political identity dynamics of the Japanese people through their attitude towards specific political issues, concepts, and doctrines, through ideas about the role of their country in the world, their attitude to “constituent Others” and their military history, as well as the analysis of differences between identities at the macro and micro levels during the emergence of the official course towards transforming Japan into a “normal country”. The solution to this problem is relevant in regards to Russia building a constructive policy in relation to Japan. The article analyzes a series of special and longitudinal studies characterizing generational change over the past 20 years in order to determine how much Japanese political preferences have changed in reference points that reflect their political identity, and which of these points allow us to identify significant determinants. As a key determinant of these surveys, the authors selected the degree of ...

Voprosy Filosofii

The ideas of Nishida Kitaro, in particular his concept of the “logic of place,” had a significant... more The ideas of Nishida Kitaro, in particular his concept of the “logic of place,” had a significant impact on many Japanese philosophers of the 20th century, and not only those who belonged to the Kyoto school. We can say that the very category of place has acquired the status of a universal cognitive (ontognoseological) metaphor, widely used in a variety of contexts. Nakamura, like many other mod­ern Japanese philosophers, uses the concept of place as a frame that allows us to view reality as a dynamic network of multi-level connections and interactions. The works of the Tokyo philosopher Nakamura Yujiro, whose scientific activity took place in the last third of the 20th – early 21st centuries, is a vivid example of the further development of the theory of place at the modern level, confirming its heuristic possibilities. The article is devoted to the analysis of Nakamura’s views in his books Topos Theory, Common Sense Theory and Predicative World and Systems, which demonstrate the e...

Palgrave Macmillan eBooks, Jan 30, 2015

Вестник МГИМО-Университета, Dec 28, 2012

История философии, Oct 13, 2021

Вопросы философии, Jun 30, 2021

The article is focused upon the Japanese philosophical science progress over the last twenty year... more The article is focused upon the Japanese philosophical science progress over the last twenty years. The author identifies the most significant and widely debated problems during the given period, observes its principal directions and the most prominent works. The following topics are in the center of consideration: modern vision of philosophy as a science, peculiarity of understanding the phenomenon of life, undertaken within the framework of two interconnected integral ap­proaches, defined as “philosophy of life” (seimei tetsugaku) and “philosophy of coexistence” (kyosei tetsugaku), as well as the latest achievements and vectors of expansion in line with the main philosophical areas – phenomenology, analytical philosophy, traditions of the Kyoto school, and Marxism. This is the first attempt to provide general analysis of the latest Japanese philosophical works published after 2000. The interest in Japanese philosophy is dictated both by the existence of a rich philosophical tradition in this country, by the high level of modern philosophical works, that are beginning to be actively translated into Western languages and are increasingly attracting the attention of scholars over the world, as well as by the situation of social demand for philosophical literature in the do­mestic market, additional incentives to steer its development. The aim of the study is to reconstruct a more complete picture of modern philosophical thought, which is marked by lacunae due to the limited availability of a significant body of research published in national languages. Its practical importance lies in the accumulation of an information and creation of an ana­lytical base, allowing to provide orientations for the expansion of scientific cooperation with modern Ja­panese philosophers. The bibliography covers the most important vectors and significant personalities.

Полис. Политические исследования, Jan 25, 2012

Полис. Политические исследования, 2016

Осмысление проблемы модернизации в условиях разворачивающегося мегатренда глобализации представля... more Осмысление проблемы модернизации в условиях разворачивающегося мегатренда глобализации представляет собой крайне актуальную теоретическую задачу. В современной России нередко можно наблюдать произвольное, исходящее из представлений обыденного сознания, оперирование понятием модернизации в политическом дискурсе, что влечет за собой опасности выстраивания оторванных от реальности стратегий развития. В связи с этим весьма востребован комплексный научный анализ нынешнего этапа модернизации, отличающегося культурно-цивилизационным многообразием и многовекторностью, предпринятый философом и социологом В.Г. Федотовой, работы которой “Соотношение академической и постакадемической науки как социальная проблема” (2015 г.)и “Модернизация и культура” (2016 г.) помогают обрести ориентиры в новой системе координат. В статье раскрывается новаторский характер теории Федотовой, которой принадлежит заслуга создания концепций третьего модерна как“нового Нового времени” для незападных стран, национальной модернизациии оригинального анализа типов модернизации. Особое внимание уделяется предлагаемому Федотовой подходу к изучению модернизационных процессов сквозь призму фактора культуры, демонстрируются его эвристические возможности и практическое значение. Также обозначены проблемы и перспективные направления дальнейших исследований модернизации, в том числе предлагается рассматривать традиции в их развитии, подходить к пониманию модернизации с учетом закономерностей межкультурного взаимодействия, принимать во внимание национальные особенности формирования политической культуры при анализе путей трансформации политических и социальных институтов.

Философия и культура, 2012

Философия и культура 11(59) • 2012 все права принадлежат издательству © noTa bene (ооо "нб-медиа"... more Философия и культура 11(59) • 2012 все права принадлежат издательству © noTa bene (ооо "нб-медиа") www.nbpublish.com ПринЦиПы долга и соЦиальной ответственности в истории формированиЯ ЯПонской трудовой и корПоративной Этики ИстоРИя ИДЕй И учЕНИй л.б. карелова Аннотация. В статье рассматриваются мировоззренческие истоки и социокультурные предпосылки формирования принципов долга и социальной ответственности в японской трудовой и корпоративной этике. Автор дает анализ исторических реалий и памятников философской и этической мысли эпохи Токугава (1603-1868) в связи с указанной проблематикой. Японская трудовая и корпоративная этика, зародившаяся в ХVП-IХ вв., оцениваются как одна из причин успешной модернизации Японии, феномена "экономического чуда" после Второй мировой войны и стабильно интенсивного развития страны на протяжении десятилетий, а также как духовная составляющая современного японского дискурса корпоративной социальной ответственности.

Философская мысль, 2021

The subject of this research is the philosophy of Shūzō Kuki, which is usually associated with hi... more The subject of this research is the philosophy of Shūzō Kuki, which is usually associated with his original concept, built around the concept of iki that simultaneously denotes taste, wealth, sensibility, dignity, reserve, and spontaneity, as well as embodies the aesthetic ideal formed in urban culture of the Edo period (1603 – 1868). The Japanese philosopher is also notable for a number of other intellectual insights. For depicting a holistic image on the philosophical views of Shūzō Kuki, a more extensive array of his works is introduced into the scientific discourse. A significant part of these work have not been translated into the Russian or other foreign languages. This article explores the problems of time and space, which are cross-cutting in the works of Shūzō Kuki using examples of such philosophical writings as the “Theory of Time”, “What is Anthropology?”, “Problems of Time. Bergson and Heidegger”, “Metaphysical Time”, "Problems of Casualty”. The research employs t...

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, Dec 28, 2012

Concept: philosophy, religion, culture

The book Philosophy as Metanoetics by the Japanese philosopher Tanabe Hajime written in the last ... more The book Philosophy as Metanoetics by the Japanese philosopher Tanabe Hajime written in the last year of WW2 marks an important turning point in his career which is interesting in terms of the influence of historical events on philosophical thought, the philosopher’s responsibility to society and rethinking of self-image, own existence and methods of philosophy, seemingly topical nowadays.The key topic of this study on late Tanabe is the focus on philosophy as on a self-critical process, taking place in parallel with the inner rebirth of philosopher.The result of the rethinking of the Western philosophy foundations of Tanabe in his inquiry on the subject, philosophy of history, absolute mediation, idea of freedom, problem of the Evil, dialectics was primarily critical. This rethinking manifested itself in Tanabe’s appeal to national spiritual tradition, a religious philosophy combining separate Buddhist doctrines, in particular the teachings of Shinran and the Jodo school.The exampl...

Voprosy Filosofii

The problems of time and history are of particular relevance at the turning points in the develop... more The problems of time and history are of particular relevance at the turning points in the development of human society, which can be considered to be the beginning of the 21st century. At the same time, in a changing world, it is important to take into account the ideas about time and history that have arisen in various cultural and civilizational areas. The article analyzes the attempt of a Japanese philosopher Nishitani Keiji belonging to the Kyoto school to for­mulate a modern concept of history based on the Buddhist view of the world and time. Unlike other religious and philosophical traditions, Buddhist thought practically did not touch upon topics related to history. Using Nishitani's philo­sophy as an example, the author tries to demonstrate the specifics of the modern Buddhist approach to understanding time and history and to determine its heur­istic potential. Due to the fact that today the narrative view of history prevails, introducing a value component into the under...

Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences, 2018

Since the role of the Asian countries is increasing in the modern world, their philosophical trad... more Since the role of the Asian countries is increasing in the modern world, their philosophical traditions attract more and more attention. Due to this trend, a more complete panoramic view of the development of world philosophy as a whole is accessible, and it has become possible to understand that any constructions of the human mind that have arisen in a particular cultural field of experience cannot be regarded as exemplary and absolute. The researchers of Asian philosophies concentrate mostly on studying the texts of individual thinkers. As a rule, they do not set themselves the task of examining these texts from the point of view of intercultural interactions and transformations of significant ideas and concepts in various cultural and historical contexts, defining the direction and mechanisms of cultural borrowing, as well as revealing new approaches and growth points. To achieve these goals, the research should focus at the problem of the self-determination and development of ph...

Полис. Политические исследования (Polis. Political Studies), 2014

Исследование выполнено в Институте социологии Российской академии наук при поддержке гранта Росси... more Исследование выполнено в Институте социологии Российской академии наук при поддержке гранта Российского научного фонда (проект №14-28-00218).

Concept: philosophy, religion, culture, 2021

The article introduces and reconstructs the main ideas of the book Experience and Thought by Mori... more The article introduces and reconstructs the main ideas of the book Experience and Thought by Mori Arimasa. Released in the form of journal publications in 1970–1972, it has never been translated into European languages. The Japanese philosopher who spent a large part of his life in France undertakes a comparative analysis of the socio-cultural and linguistic foundations of the experience of the Japanese and Europeans. The article examines the main aspects of Mori’s concept of experience: understanding experience as a reality and as a subject, separation of two forms of experience — universal and personal, the relationship between experience and language and between experience and thought, the theory of binary connections and second person world, designed to identify and explain the underlying prerequisites that determine the specific character of the experience of the Japanese. The author of the article shows that Mori confirms his own thesis that the primary experience of a person ...

Voprosy Filosofii, 2020

The study of philosophical teachings through the prism of intercultural philo­sophical dialogue p... more The study of philosophical teachings through the prism of intercultural philo­sophical dialogue provides an opportunity for a broader view of the history of philosophy overcoming the framework of the East-West dichotomy the limita­tions of which are becoming more and more obvious over time. This article is a further step in this direction. It demonstrates what aspects of Hegel’s thought were taken by Japanese thinkers of Kyoto School and how they were developed in new philosophical and cultural context. In particular, such moments as the concepts of the unity of logic and metaphysics, logic and the historical pro­cess, the scheme of correlation of the absolute and the world, the principles of negation, double negation, contradiction, the dialectic of identity and difference, direct and mediation, individual, special and universal, became the object of con­sideration. The author makes an attempt to reveal the mechanisms of perception and adaptation of elements of a seemingly completely alien religious and cultural tradition. She offers her vision of character and degree of Hegel’s influence upon Nishida Kitaro and Tanabe Hajime, arguing that the points in the teachings of the German philosopher relevant to the key doctrines of Mahayana Buddhism were most attractive to them. The article concludes that Japanese thinkers, not being followers of Hegel, nevertheless made extensive use of his conceptual tools, approaches, and logical constructions to express their own ideas. Equally important is the fact that the appeal of Japanese philosophers to Hegel allowed them to more clearly define their own position regarding the central idea of their philosophy.

Ideas and Ideals

Ability of knowledge and thinking operations, such as abstraction, comparison syllogisms and so o... more Ability of knowledge and thinking operations, such as abstraction, comparison syllogisms and so on, are of course common to all peoples. Nevertheless, when referring to this or that specifi c cultural material, the problem of the existence of separate epistemic cultures arises. Contemporary research on epistemological diversity relies primarily on methods of analytic epistemology and focuses on identifying examples of ‘cross-linguistic divergence’ at the semantic level. The concepts of ‘know’ and ‘knowledge’ often become the object of research. However, there are suffi cient grounds for identifying and studying epistemic cultures also in terms of other parameters. This article is focused upon highlighting these parameters by referring to examples of the history of the Japanese spiritual tradition associated with Buddhist and Confucian teachings. In particular, the author examines the Buddhist doctrines of two truths and the identity of absolute being and the phenomenal world, as wel...

History of Philosophy

The name of Seiichi Hatano (1877–1950) is still not so widely known outside of Japan. At the same... more The name of Seiichi Hatano (1877–1950) is still not so widely known outside of Japan. At the same time, he belongs to those outstanding Japanese thinkers of the first half of the twentieth century, who not only introduced to their compatriots the history of Western philosophy, but also acted as generators of original concepts created on the basis of deep critical understanding of the Western intellectual heritage. The article deals with the reconstruction of Seiichi Hatano’s theory of time, formulated in his monograph “Time and Eternity” (1943), which crowned his creative career. The starting point of Hatano’s philosophy of time were studies of the basic human experience, which he interpreted in terms of the flow of life and the interaction of the Self and the Other. The subject of the Japanese thinker’s special interest was the problem of overcoming temporality. Hatano’s original contribution to the theory of time was the creation of the three-fold scheme of temporality, considered...

Sociological Journal

The research was focused on the political identity dynamics of the Japanese people through their ... more The research was focused on the political identity dynamics of the Japanese people through their attitude towards specific political issues, concepts, and doctrines, through ideas about the role of their country in the world, their attitude to “constituent Others” and their military history, as well as the analysis of differences between identities at the macro and micro levels during the emergence of the official course towards transforming Japan into a “normal country”. The solution to this problem is relevant in regards to Russia building a constructive policy in relation to Japan. The article analyzes a series of special and longitudinal studies characterizing generational change over the past 20 years in order to determine how much Japanese political preferences have changed in reference points that reflect their political identity, and which of these points allow us to identify significant determinants. As a key determinant of these surveys, the authors selected the degree of ...