Understanding Japanese Philosophy - Fudan University

Learn how Japanese culture can be thought of as another huge “melting-pot”, similar to how America is perceived.

Explore the Japanese way of thinking by observing linguistic behaviour. You’ll learn how to convert original Japanese expressions into Japanese-style English, and learn to philosophically analyse these expressions.

Develop a basic understanding of Nishida Kitaro’s “Logic of Basho” and understand why it is radically different from the Aristotelian logic.

Understand Omori Shuzo’s argument against ‘identity theory’ - the common-sense idea that mental activities are located in the brain.

Understand Omori Shuzo’s argument against the reality of temporal instance and its remarkable philosophical consequences.

Understand Watsuji Tetsuro’s argument against the separation of sociality from spatiality and its remarkable impacts on the studies in moral philosophy.