Inoue Tetsujirō
Inoue Tetsujirō ( Japanese 井上 哲 次郎 ; * December 25, 1856 in Buzen , Buzen Province ; † November 9, 1944 in Kahoku , Ishikawa Prefecture ) was a Japanese philosopher .
Life
Inoue studied philosophy at the University of Tokyo , where he held an assistant professorship from 1882. In the same year he published the poetry anthology Shintaishishō ( A selection of verses according to a new pattern ) and became a pioneer of the Shintaishi movement. At the same time he encouraged the examination of occidental poetry.
From 1884 to 1890 he studied in Heidelberg and Leipzig the German idealism . Back in Japan, Inoue gave lectures on this and other philosophical currents until his retirement in 1923.
philosophy
Inoue was an opponent of Christianity , which he considered to be incompatible with Japanese culture and the Japanese national system , which he expressed above all in the pamphlet Teishitsu to shūkyō no kankei in 1890. A year later, his most important political writing, Kokka to Yaso-kyō to no shōtotsu ( The Conflict Between Nation and Christianity ), followed.
Instead, he campaigned for the preservation of traditional Japanese values. His studies are primarily devoted to modern Japanese Confucianism . Inoue wrote a trilogy about this that is still considered a standard work today.
Inoue was well respected in the academic community and has edited major journals such as Eastern Art and Sciences and Light in the Far East .
Works
- Nippon Yōmei Gakuha no tetsugaku ( 日本 陽明 学派 の 哲学 ) - philosophy of the Japanese [Wang] Yang ming school (1900).
- Nippon Ko Gakuha no tetsugaku ( 日本 古 学派 の 哲学 ) - Japanese Old School philosophy (1902).
- Nippon Shushi Gakuha no tetsugaku ( 日本 朱子学 派 の 哲学 ) - philosophy of the Japanese Chu-Hsi school (1905).
Web links
- Short biography
- Bibliography (Japanese)
- Eddy Dufourmont: Is Confucianism philosophy? The answers of Inoue Tetsujirô and Nakae Chômin (PDF; 208 kB), in Nakajima Takahiro ed., Whither Japanese Philosophy? II Reflections through other Eyes (UTCP Booklet 14), 2010, pp. 71-89.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Klaus Kracht: Grundriß der Japanologie , Wiesbaden 2001, p. 155.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Inoue, Tetsujirō |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 井上 哲 次郎 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buzen , Japan |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 9, 1944 |
| Place of death | Kahoku , Ishikawa , Japan |