著者

猪ノ原 次郎

出版者

西田哲学会

雑誌

西田哲学会年報 (ISSN:21881995)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.17, pp.77-90, 2020 (Released:2022-03-11)

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It is said that the concept of body was hugely important for the later Nishida. While I do not disagree with this assessment, I believe it is important to recognize that, although it was concatenated with many other key concepts in his philosophy, Nishida did not explicitly indicate what the significance of the concept of the body actually was. Moreover, I believe that this question of why the body was so significant to Nishida’s work has still yet to be answered. Thus, the aim of this paper is to make the significance of Nishida’s concept of the body explicit by pursuing some conceptual connections that can be found within his thought. First, we need to specify what kind of issues concerning the body were taken up by Nishida. I will consider this question by comparing his description of the historical aspect of bodily activities with the biological, and thus find his central interest to be the semiotic functions of ‘historical body’. Second, I will examine the concept of expression, which Nishida used to deal with the semiotic and mental domains, and thus try to figure out the relation between expression and ‘form’: the relation which determines the normative characteristics of expressions. These examinations will help us understand why such acts of expression should, primarily, belong to the body rather than the mind or subjectivity. Finally, from these conceptions of expression and Nishida’s arguments over acquisition, I will conclude that the significance of the body consists in its semiotic acquisition, especially language acquisition, which radically constitutes the historical dimension of human individuals in the historical world.

著者

猪ノ原 次郎

出版者

日本哲学会

雑誌

哲学 (ISSN:03873358)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2021, no.72, pp.79-90, 2021-04-01 (Released:2021-05-20)