Un essai d’interprétation de la raison des choses selon Yamanouchi Tokuryū : l’appel fait à la philosophie bouddhique

Abstract

According to Buddhist philosophy, things do not exist as substances from an ontological point of view but rather as active mediums: only facts or events appear to exist. When Buddhist thought was introduced to Japan, it had difficulty adapting to local vocabulary and conceptions such as the mythological explanations of the origin and state of things. Reflecting the desire to adapt and its inherent difficulties, some modern philosophers have made daring attempts to combine Japanese conceptions – in particular Buddhist thought – with newly introduced Western philosophical ideas, with some success. Among them was Yamanouchi Tokuryū, whose attempt to go beyond the fundamental principles of contradiction and the excluded third via a resolutely epistemological approach merits attention.

Keywords

• Philosophy
• Buddhism
• Thing
• Fact
• Relationship
• Substance