著者
梅澤 佑介
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.39, pp.35-49, 2016-03-20 (Released:2018-03-30)
参考文献数
25

Harold Laski, well-known as an advocate of the pluralistic theory of the state, presented his theory as the antithesis of T. H. Green's idealism. Nevertheless, Laski inherited Green's idea of 'rebellion as the duty of citizens'. Green's influence on Laski has rarely been the focus of attention in Laski studies because the central role the idea of positive duty of rebellion plays in his thought has been neglected. By examining the relationship between Laski's acceptance and critique of Green, this paper shows that Laski's pluralistic theory was developed as an effort to revive Green's theory of resistance.
著者
古田 拓也
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.37, pp.77-91, 2014-03-20 (Released:2018-03-30)
参考文献数
34

The aim of this paper is to present John Lockeʼs arguments in the Two Treatises of Government as a comprehensive response to Robert Filmerʼs vehement criticism of the contract theory. Filmer argues that contract theory neither works in theory nor in practice, and so is, as such, a theory of anarchy. Partly accepting these criticisms, Locke constructs a contract theory such that Filmerʼs attacks lose their theoretical sting, that is, an individualistic contract theory which rejects the stigmatization of anarchy. However, Lockeʼs reconstruction is based on the theological foundations which we cannot reasonably share today. Acknowledgement of this fact, in turn, enables us to appreciate the contemporary significance of both Locke and Filmer.
著者
高橋 和則
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.35, pp.37-52, 2012-03-20 (Released:2018-03-30)
参考文献数
26

Edmund Burke seems to be a thinker who was one of critics to the modern social contract theory. But he had the idea of social contract. I think he did not deny the theory of social contract itself. This paper aims to reconstruct his theory from some writings and speeches. To do it, it is necessary to articulate the relation of civil society and civilized society in his thought, and to make clear how he understood the natural state. It seems to me that these arguments show the natures and conditions of modern government in his thought.
著者
戒能 通弘
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.35, pp.5-19, 2012-03-20 (Released:2018-03-30)
参考文献数
31

This paper focuses on the development of the English concept of the ʻrule of lawʼ, analysing Edward Coke, Matthew Hale and William Blackstoneʼs works. I will demonstrate the diversity of this concept, as against the prerogative. On the other hand, the rule of law concept has been almost consistently under the sway of parliamentary sovereignty. The history of the English rule of law concept is one of formalisation. Cokeʼs restraint of the prerogative by ʻreasonʼ was replaced by Haleʼs restraint by ʻknown lawʼ. The English rule of law did not intervene where the legislatures acted in formally correct ways.
著者
瀧田 寧
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.30, pp.65-78, 2007-03-20 (Released:2018-03-30)

The similarity between Locke and contemporary French thinkers is that both assert that the realm in which reason should play an active role must be distinguished from that in which things can be considered as a matter of faith. The difference between them, on the other hand, lies in their views on the traditional revelation based on the authority of the church: Locke considers the revelation to be a matter of reason because it relies only on the words that lead to the probable interpretation, while the French thinkers treat it as a matter of faith because they believe the authority to be entirely decisive. Thus, this paper is an attempt to reveal the significance of Locke's matter of reason as contradistinguished from his matter of faith.
著者
石原 正博
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.22, pp.69-81, 1999-03-27 (Released:2018-04-25)

Harriet Taylor and J. S. Mill, in the late 1840's and early 1850's, just before and after their marriage, wrote a series of articles on injustice and cruelty, revealing their growing concern over the effects of male violence and authority sanctioned by law. Their intention was to drive legislators and judges to regard violence as a serious crime deserving severe punishment. My analytical approaches are based upon thoughts in their “joint productions”; sometimes Mill comments, “Very little of this article was mine”. This paper aims to shed light on Harriet Taylor's ideas and the formative process of Mill's thoughts.
著者
吉永 進一
出版者
宗教哲学会
雑誌
宗教哲学研究 (ISSN:02897105)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.22, pp.33-50, 2005 (Released:2019-03-21)

In the late 19th century America, Swedenborgianism and Buddhism was not an exceptional combination among some esoteric thinkers. Philangi Dasa, who published the first Buddhist journal in America, was a Swedenborgian and wrote a book titled Swedenborg the Buddhist. Albert J. Edmunds, who co-authored a book on Buddhism and Christianity with Anesaki Masaharu, let Suzuki know Swedenborgianism while the latter worked for the Open Court Publishing Company. Around 1890 Japanese progressive Buddhists looked for help in the West and found some “Buddhists”, who really were Theosophists or esotericists. Dasa’s articles on Swedenborgianism and Buddhism were translated into Japanese and appeared on Buddhist journals. So Swedenborg came to be known as a kind of Buddhist philosopher among Japanese Buddhists. When we take into consideration those historical facts, it is not strange that Daisetz T. Suzuki translated four books by Swedenborg and wrote a biography of him from 1910 to 1915. In addition he made a short speech at the Swedenborg Society in 1912, in which he claimed himself a Swedenborgian. In this paper those historical backgrounds of Suzuki’s commitment to Swedenborgianism are analyzed, and the creativity of Suzuki’s interpretation of the law of correspondence is discussed.
著者
鬼頭 葉子
出版者
宗教哲学会
雑誌
宗教哲学研究 (ISSN:02897105)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.37, pp.82-95, 2020-03-31 (Released:2020-07-09)

This paper aims to elucidate the content and position of the eschatology which he emphasized, and to clarify the features of Tanabe Hajime’s understanding of Christianity, based on his work “Demonstration of Christianity”. The following three points are the characteristics of Christianity considered by Tanabe; (1) Christianity is a religion that carries out social practice in its essence, (2) Christianity can and should avoid the identity which originates from the personal god, who is a existence, by relying on the “absolute nothingness” introduced from Buddhism. (3) Christianity is a religion that has historical concreteness in its structure. In particular, the unique interpretation of the eschatology by Tanabe is considered to be the key concept of his religious philosophy that leads to the social practice he aimed at. According to Tanabe, the eschatology is seen as mediation for the transformation between ethics and religion based on history. In other words, the eschatology is a dialectic that absolutely denies this world, and the structure of eschatology directs humans to change the value of the moral custom and to create new societies. In addition, Tanabe argues that Christianity is mediated by the reason of Marxism based on the dialectics that serve as negative mediation between religion and reason. In this way, Christianity is given concreteness about what to do as a social practice in a particular era on history.
著者
浦井 聡
出版者
宗教哲学会
雑誌
宗教哲学研究 (ISSN:02897105)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.37, pp.96-109, 2020-03-31 (Released:2020-07-09)

It is well known that Tanabe Hajime (1885-1962) considered individuals’ praxis as a core concept of his philosophy. This paper aims to clarify the nature of individuals’ praxis especially in his philosophy of religion: “metanoetics” (1944-1953). For this purpose, we have to go back to the works before “metanoetics,” as Tanabe did not explain about praxis in detail during “metanoetics.” In other words, the definition of praxis is formed in a dialectic manner and we need to trace the definitions of praxis. “Metanoetics” is a standpoint which emerged from critically reexamining of the “logic of species.” In the “logic of the species,” which sticks to being rational, individuals’ praxis is considered as obedience to the state, especially during 1939-1941. Anyhow, in “metanoetics” being rational was no longer a requirement for individuals’ praxis. In “metanoetics,” individuals recognize the operation of the Absolute which lies behind the historical world and saves them, and regard what exists in society as means of salvation by the Absolute. Therefore, individuals accept every incident as means of the Absolute to lead them to salvation, so that they can react freely to it. Such free reaction is regarded as individuals’ praxis in “metanoetics.”
著者
浦井 聡
出版者
宗教哲学会
雑誌
宗教哲学研究 (ISSN:02897105)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.36, pp.84-97, 2019-03-30 (Released:2019-05-22)

Tanabe Hajime (1885-1962) started developing his philosophy of religion, which he dubbed “philosophy as metanoetics,” from late 1944 by critically reexamining his earlier idea of the “logic of species” (1934-41). Therefore, his “philosophy as metanoetics” inherited the basic scheme of the “logic of species.” Tanabe deemed the concept of “species,” which was central to his philosophy, an essential element of salvation. This paper aims to reveal the connection between “logic of species” and “philosophy as metanoetics” by clarifying the structure of salvation in Tanabe’s social ontology. For this purpose, this paper focuses on how one becomes a “true individual” and what the latter is. In “logic of species,” one becomes a “true individual” through the inner disruption of species to which it belongs. In “philosophy as metanoetics,” when one faces the antinomy of duties in species, “nothingness-qua-love” converts from one to “true individual.” This paper connects the moment of becoming “true individual” of “logic of species” with that of “philosophy as metanoetics” by showing that the antinomy of duties in species is caused by the inner disruption of species. Moreover, this paper elucidates the nature of a “true individual.” Its nature is characterized by matter and form of the species to which it belongs and by “nothing-qua-love.”
著者
山内 貞男
出版者
宗教哲学会
雑誌
宗教哲学研究 (ISSN:02897105)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.8, pp.17-35, 1991 (Released:2018-03-21)

(1) Das ,Leben Christi‘ stellt das Grundthema der „Deutschen Theologie“ dar. In unsrer ganzen Abhandlung—(l) und (2)—soll es nun geklärt werden, welchen Sinn die Hölle fürs oder im ,Leben Christi‘ hat. Nach einer Erwähnung davon, wie Eckhart und Tauler in ihren Predigten von der Hölle handeln, erklären wir den Grund der Höllenauffassung bei der „Deutschen Theologie“, warum diese in des Menschen eigenem Willen den Kern oder das Wesen der Hölle findet. Bei der Beziehung der Hölle mit dem ,Leben Christi‘ kann man drei Stufen unterscheiden. Auf der ersten Stufe findet sich die Hölle ganz als Gegenteil vom ,Leben Christi‘,und auf der zweiten läßt sie sich ins ,Leben Christi‘ hereinnehmen, was Gottes Lassen (nicht Verlassen) der Menschenseele in die Hölle hinunter besagt. (2) Mit einem vergotteten bzw. göttlichen Menschen, der aus der Hölle oben in den Himmel eingenommen worden ist, entsteht die dritte Stufe. Die „Deutsche Theologie“ unterscheidet bei dem vergotteten Menschen drei Seinsweisen mit wechselseitiger Übergangsmöglichkeit: Im-Himmel-sein, In-der-Hölle-sein und In-der-Zeit (Welt)-sein. Diese könnten in der Reihenfolge als Heiliger-sein, Sünder-sein und Laie-sein bezeichnet werden. Anschließend an kurze Zusammenfassung dieser drei Stufen kommt dann der Versuch, bei Luther, Weigel und Arndt einen Zusammenhang mit der Höllenauffassung der „Deutschen Theologie“ zu finden. Zum Schluß ergibt es sich auch, daß ihre eigenartige Höllenauffassung für die „Deutsche Theologie“ charakteristisch ist.