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Das elliptische Denken des Cusanus. Zur Cusanus-Rezeption in Japan

  • Kazuhiko Yamaki EMAIL logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 7. Mai 2014
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Abstract

The name of Nicholas of Cusa was communicated to Japanese students of philosophy directly after the new opening of Japan in the process of the Meiji-Restoration of 1868, by the two German philosophers Ludwig Busse (1862–1907) and Raphael von Koeber (1848–1923). One of these students was Kitaroh Nishida, who later became one of the leading Japanese philosophers. He was interested in Cusa his whole life long and inspired many of his pupils to pursue the same interest. Until 1950, the Japanese research of Cusa, following the work of Nishida, focused on the relation between Cusa and Buddhism. Scholars of the post-war generation, many of them Christians, was more interested in Cusa as a Christian thinker. After describing the history of Cuas’s influence in Japanese philosophy, the author presents his own theses in analyzing the coincidence of the opposites and the idea of the gradual approach to the truth. He characterizes Cusa’s philosophy as an elliptic thought of decentralisation which is, in his eyes, able to avoid a clash of civilizations.

Published Online: 2014-5-7
Published in Print: 2014-5-1

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