Hitoshi Nagai

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Hitoshi Nagai ( Japanese 永 井 均 , Nagai Hitoshi ; * 1951 ) is a Japanese philosopher who is considered a representative of metaphysics and metaethics .

Life

Nagai spent his school days until 1970 at the Keiō-Gijuku-High School ( 慶 應 義 塾 高等学校 , Keiō Gijuku Kōtō Gakkō ) and studied philosophy at the Keiō University until 1974. He obtained his master's degree at the Keiō University in 1976; In 1982 he completed his doctorate . From 1990 to 1994 he was an associate professor at Shinshū University and taught from 1995 to 1997 as a professor at this university. From 1998 to 2006 he was a professor at Chiba University. Since 2007 he has been a professor at Nihon University .

Positions

Nagai is a professor of philosophy at Nihon University. Especially in the egology he emphasizes the uniqueness or incomparability of the ego (in Japanese he uses the symbol ‹ 私 › ( watashi , < i >) to express this character of the ego). According to him, in the history of philosophy, every European doctrine of the I does not yet have a decisive answer to the question of why only my self ( jibun ) is to be designated or recognized as <I> and every other self ( 他 者 , tasha ) not < I> could be given. In this sense, real egology has never begun. This insight comes from the question that he already had as a child: Why this boy, not this one or everyone, but "this" (Nagai himself is meant) is <I>, and why a friend X or Y is not <I> . In the meantime he has found the questionable nature of the apparently widely valid rule as the rule of the limitation of utilitarianism, which is generally to be described as morality or moral philosophy. In the course of time he came to the realization that these two apparently different problems (egological and ethical) were one and the same. The key to this problem is how to understand the concept of <i> or self. Nagai also works in this context on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein , Friedrich Nietzsche , Nishida Kitarōs and John Ellis McTaggarts . He has dealt with the teaching of the self ( 自己 , jiko ) in the work of the Zen master Uchiyama Kōshō , in which he sees parallels to his own point of view.

Works

  • A metaphysics of the self! (A Metaphysics of I!), Keiso Shobo, 1986.
  • The behavior of the soul (Engl. The Attitude Towards the Soul), Keiso Shobo 1991.
  • An Introduction to Wittgenstein, Chikuma Shobo, 1995.
  • Philosophy for children! (Philosophy for Kids!), Kodansha, 1996.
  • Philosophy of resentment (Engl. The Philosophy of resentment), Kawade Shobo 1997.
  • Philosophical dialogues for children - humans only live for pleasure! (English Philosophical dialogs for for Kids!), Kodansha, 1996.
  • The incomparability of the existence of the I! (The Incomparability of the Existence of I!), Keiso Shobo, 1998.
  • That's Nietzsche (Engl. This Is Nietzsche), Kodansha 1998.
  • Philosophizing Manga (English Manga Philosophizes), Kodansha, 2000.
  • A school changer and Blackjack: A seminar on Solipsität (English A transfer student and blackjack. A seminar on Solipsity), Iwanami Shoten 2001.
  • What is ethics (What Is Ethics?), Sangyo Tosho, 2002.
  • Ich, Jetzt und Gott: Philosophy of the Opening (I, Now, and God: Philosophy of the Opening), Kodansha, 2004.
  • Kitaro Nishida's philosophy: What is “absolute nothing”? (The Philosophy of Kitaro Nishida), NHK, 2007.
  • Why is consciousness not real? (Why Isn't Consciousness Real?), Iwanami Shoten, 2008.
  • Wittgenstein 's Misdiagnosis, Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2012.
  • A secret struggle of philosophy (Engl. A Secret Battle of Philosophy), Pneuma Sha 2013.
  • A lively murmur of Philosophy (English. A Lively Murmur of Philosophy), Pneuma Sha 2013.
  • Uncle Tetsu and Manabu , Nihon-Keizai-Shinbun Shuppan Sha, 2014.
  • Being and Time - Philosophical Investigations 1 (English Being and Time -. Philosophical Investigations 1) Bungei Shunju 2016.
  • The Solipsitic Existential Structure of the World - Philosophical Investigations 2 , Shunju Sha, 2018.

Cooperation

Co-edition

  • The Tree of Philosophy: Encyclopedia of Philosophy . Kodansha, 2002, ISBN 4-06-211080-6 .

Translations

Works in German and English

  • Penetre and I (German translation of Philosophical Dialogues for Children - Man only lives for pleasure! ) On the website of the Antai-ji [1]
  • The Opening: A Philosophy of Actuality (1) Philosophia OSAKA No. 2, 2007, pp. 45-61. (PDF)
  • The Opening: A Philosophy of Actuality (2) Philosophia OSAKA No. 3, 2008, pp. 1-24. (PDF)
  • The Opening: A Philosophy of Actuality (3) Philosophia OSAKA No. 4, 2009, pp. 1-29. (PDF)
  • The Opening: A Philosophy of Actuality (4) Philosophia OSAKA No. 5, 2010, pp. 23-40. (PDF)
  • Why Isn't Consciousness Real? (1) Philosophia OSAKA No. 6, 2011, pp. 41-61. (PDF)
  • Why Isn't Consciousness Real? (2) Philosophia OSAKA No. 7, 2012, pp. 47-63. (PDF)
  • Why Isn't Consciousness Real? (3) Philosophia OSAKA No. 8, 2013, pp. 37-51. (PDF)
  • Why Isn't Consciousness Real? (4) Philosophia OSAKA No. 9, 2014, pp. 41-60. (PDF)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "An Introduction to Wittgenstein" (1995)
  2. ↑ "Wittgenstein's Miss Diagnosis" (2012)
  3. ↑ "This is Nietzsche" (1998)
  4. ↑ "Philosophy of Kitaro Nishida: What is the" absolute nothing "?" (2007)
  5. ^ "Philosophizing about Buddhism 3.0" (2016)
personal data
SURNAME Nagai, Hitoshi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 永 井 均 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1951