Hung Yao-hsün and Japanese Philosophy

Title

Hung Yao-hsün and Japanese Philosophy

Author

Masakatsu FUJITA

Page

1-24

DOI

10.6163/TJEAS.201806_15(1).0001

Abstract

Being one of forerunners of Taiwanese philosophy, Hung Yao-hsün was strongly influenced by Mutai Risaku, a disciple of Nishida Kitaro and the first philosophy professor at Taihoku Imperial University. This paper discusses how Hong developed his thoughts from Mutai’s influence, how philosophical research developed in Taiwan, and what was the role of Japanese philosophy in both.
In his first essay titled “Philosophical Problems Today”, Hung Yao-hsün praised Heidegger’s philosophy of “existence.” However, Hong later criticized Heidegger’s philosophy, in which contradictory and negativity in dialectics are not considered sufficiently. This criticism shows Hong’s influence from Mutai Risaku. In “Art and Philosophy (and their Relationship to Historical Society)”, Hong emphasizes the importance of a real foundation (species as hypokeimenon) in development of literature and art. This is based on Tanabe’s “logic of species.” The meaning of Hung Yao-hsün’s thought does not lie in his understanding of Tanabe’s notion of species as a mere logical mediation, but in the interpretation of the species as a “real life basis” and in the idea of cultural creation based on the historical and social characteristics of Taiwan.

Keyword

Hung Yao-hsün, Mutai Risaku, Nishida Kitaro, Taiwanese Philosophy, Kyoto School

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