Amanda Sayonara Fernandes Prazeres - Panel 21 ENOJP Brussels
Channel: European Network of Japanese Philosophy
Date: 23/08/2017

"Religion, Self and Substance: Nishitani Keiji’s Critique of the Concept of Substance In Relation to the Cartesian cogito" 
Amanda Sayonara Fernandes Prazeres (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) 

We intent to discuss the criticism developed by the Japanese philosopher Nishitani Keiji (1900-1990), in his masterpiece Religion and Nothingness (Shūkyō to wa nani ka), to the subject-object dualism and the conception of the res cogitans formulated by the Modern thinker René Descartes (1596-1650). The aim is to clarify the problem of subjectivity by analyzing why Cartesian dualism is problematic and how it is also problematic not to overcome this perspective, according to Nishitani. As well, we will investigate how this conception of man in Cartesian philosophy is related to a notion of substance and, consequently, how the proposal for overcoming this perspective devised by Nishitani can also mean a critique to the metaphysics bases of West philosophy.

This talk took place at the Second annual conference of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy [ENOJP] 7–10 December 2016, Université libre de Bruxelles [ULB].

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