Hajime Tanabe was a Japanese philosopher of science, particularly of mathematics and physics.
19 Facts About Hajime Tanabe
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Hajime Tanabe especially has fallen under scrutiny for his political activities, though scholarship provides some mitigation of the harsher stigma surrounding his career.
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Hajime Tanabe was born on February 3,1885, in Tokyo to a household devoted to education.
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Hajime Tanabe enrolled at Tokyo Imperial University, first as a mathematics student before moving to literature and philosophy.
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In 1916, Hajime Tanabe translated Henri Poincare's La Valeur de la science.
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In 1919, at Nishida's invitation, Hajime Tanabe accepted the position of associate professor at Kyoto Imperial University.
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In 1935, Hajime Tanabe published his essay 'The Logic of Species and the World Schema' wherein he formulated his own 'logic of species' for which he became known.
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Hajime Tanabe lived for another eleven years after writing these words, dying in 1962 in Kita-Karuizawa, Japan.
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Some commentators, for example, suggest that Hajime Tanabe's work in metanoetics is a forerunner of deconstruction.
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Hajime Tanabe's work is often a dialogue with philosophers like Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Heidegger.
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In company with the other members of the Kyoto School, Hajime Tanabe believed that the foremost problem facing humans in the modern world is the lack of meaning and its consequent Nihilism.
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Hajime Tanabe disagreed with Nishida and Nishitani on the meaning of Absolute Nothingness, emphasizing the practical, historical aspect over what he termed the latter's intuitionism.
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Hajime Tanabe wished to center the human experience in action rather than contemplation, since he thought that action embodies a concern for ethics whereas contemplation ultimately disregards this, resulting in a form of Monism, after the mold of Plotinus and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
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That is, echoing Kierkegaard's undermining in Philosophical Fragments of systematic philosophy from Plato to Baruch Spinoza to Hegel, Hajime Tanabe questions whether there is an aboriginal condition of preexisting awareness that can or must be regained to attain enlightenment.
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Hajime Tanabe uses the terms genus to represent the universality of form that all entities strive for, contrasting them with the stable, though ossified form they can become as species as social systems.
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Jesus, in Hajime Tanabe's terms, is a historical being who manifests the action of Absolute Nothingness, or God understood in non-theistic terms.
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For Hajime Tanabe, humans have the potential to realize compassionate divinity, Nothingness, through continual death and resurrection, by way of seeing their nothingness.
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Hajime Tanabe believes that the Christian Incarnation narrative is important for explaining the nature of reality, since he believed Absolute Nothingness becoming human exemplifies the true nature of the divine, as well as exemplar to realization of human being in relationship to divinity.
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Ultimately, Hajime Tanabe chooses philosophy over religion, since the latter tends toward socialization and domestication of the original impulse of the religious action.