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Author(s): | Alexandre, R. S. |
Date: | 2016 |
Title: | Is space a part of being? Reassessing space through Japanese thought |
Number: | 5 |
Pages: | 145 - 159 |
ISSN: | 2182-4371 |
Keywords: | Space Being Japanese thought Ontology |
Abstract: | This paper adopts a hermeneutical approach to Japanese thought, in the light of Heideggerian thought, in order to reassess the way we understand space. In a first stage, a few ideas concerning Japanese language and aesthetics will be briefly addressed for a better understanding of how space is embraced in Japanese thought and culture (experience precedes description). We will then turn to the two main concepts: fūdo (milieu) and basho (place), coined by two 20th century philosophers: Watsuji Tetsurō and Nishida Kitarō. The logic behind fūdo is that a true awareness of space is built not from thinking about it – since we are already objectifying it and, therefore, understanding ourselves detached from it –, but from being in it; experiencing it. The concept of basho represents a more logical argument and allows us to focus on the relation between the particular and the universal; or, as we will see, between being and space. What we can conclude from the articulation and interpretation of these two concepts is that space is certainly more than just a pure geometrical concept or a receptacle where human beings exist – it can also be thought of as a part of being. |
Peerreviewed: | yes |
Access type: | Open Access |
Appears in Collections: | CRIA-RN - Artigos em revistas científicas nacionais com arbitragem científica |
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