Techne of Life and Thinking

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  • 生と思考のテクネー
  • ナマ ト シコウ ノ テクネー

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This paper tries, first, to compare Nishida’s discussion of technique with Heidegger’s essay Die Frage nach der Technik, and second, to elucidate Nishida’s concept trio of ‘mokuteki-teki sayō’(teleogical action), ‘gyaku- sayō’(reverse action)and ‘mu-sayō’(non-action)both in its macro context of politics and in its micro context of individual practice of life and thinking, finally leading to a clinical philosophical moment of what I want to call ‘hakarai’ in Japanese, i. e. arrangement, or corresponding with various matters. As basis for discussion serve the essays published in volume nine of the new version of Nishida’s collected works. We have to note that Nishida designates as ‘technical’ not only the science and technology, but also the bottom-up – in Nishida’s term ‘mujun-teki jikodōitsu-teki’(contradictory and self-identical)- occurrence of various things in our ‘rekishi-teki sekai’ (historical world), as he calls it. Referring to Nishida’s concept of non- action, but mostly against his basic understanding of it, I want to suggest my own model of life and thinking in advocacy of clinical philosophy, which belongs to a new philosophical trend in Japan.

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