著者

藤本 拓也

出版者

東京大学文学部宗教学研究室

雑誌

東京大学宗教学年報 (ISSN:2896400)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.23, pp.77-89, 2006-03-31

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This paper is concerned with the relationship between intersubjectivity and religion. The concept of intersubjectibity, which is based on the phenomenology of Husserl (1859-1938), was transformed into the mind-body theory by the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961). Through an application of the theory to the human body, he interpreted the concept of intersubjectivity on the physical and concrete level. Although the ontological concept of intersubjectivity implies a modality of being together in this world, community in general is also grounded on this same modality. From a religious study's perspective, I examine his main works Phenomenology of Perception (1945) and posthumous works The Visible and the Invisible (1964), and analyze the structure of intersubjectivity apparent in them. The structure has to be totally resolved in order to illuminate the connection between religion and community. On the point that the self and the other exist together causing a unit of "we" to emerge, a kind of moment may support it. A moment means not only God or a divine thing, but also something monistic/This paper will attempt to show that intersubjectivity is based on the monistic concept of being.