Nakamura Yujiro’s Concept of “Place”

Authors

  • Liubov B. Karelova Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 12/1, Goncharnaya str., Moscow, 109240, Russian Federation.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2023-10-169-180

Keywords:

Nishida Kitaro, Nakamura Yujiro, place, ontognoseology, symbolic space, topos, common sense, “predicative world”

Abstract

The ideas of Nishida Kitaro, in particular his concept of the “logic of place,” had a significant impact on many Japanese philosophers of the 20th century, and not only those who belonged to the Kyoto school. We can say that the very category of place has acquired the status of a universal cognitive (ontognoseological) metaphor, widely used in a variety of contexts. Nakamura, like many other mod­ern Japanese philosophers, uses the concept of place as a frame that allows us to view reality as a dynamic network of multi-level connections and interactions. The works of the Tokyo philosopher Nakamura Yujiro, whose scientific activity took place in the last third of the 20th – early 21st centuries, is a vivid example of the further development of the theory of place at the modern level, confirming its heuristic possibilities. The article is devoted to the analysis of Nakamura’s views in his books Topos Theory, Common Sense Theory and Predicative World and Systems, which demonstrate the effectiveness of the use of topological meta­phors in various fields of both natural science and philosophy, contributing to the development of modern ontological and epistemological theories. The con­ducted research demonstrates the potential of Asian philosophical traditions, which should be taken into account while solving the problems facing modern philosophy.

Published

2023-10-31

Issue

Section

History of Philosophy

How to Cite

[1]
2023. Nakamura Yujiro’s Concept of “Place”. Voprosy Filosofii. 10 (Oct. 2023), 169–180. DOI:https://doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2023-10-169-180.