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For the past several years I have worked out what has become “the logic of species” by taking up the issue of the logic of social being. My reasons for undertaking this are, in short, two: the practical and the logical. In the first case, I have come to believe that the ethnic unity and coercive power of the state, which have arisen together quite recently in various countries, include an element that can hardly be comprehended from the standpoint that tries to consider society as nothing but the reciprocal relation of individuals.
Translated from the Japanese by Robert Chapeskie and revised by John W. M. Krummel.
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The term soku [即], here translated by the Latin qua, is discussed in the essay following this text. The Chinese character 即has several meanings in Japanese, including “namely” or “that is” [即ち], “immediate” [即時], and “impromptu” [即興]. It is also used together with the character for “self” [自] in the Japanese translation of “in-itself” (“an sich” or “en soi”) [即自], and appears in the word sōsoku [相即], which is also discussed in the following essay and has been translated in this text as “mutual unification”.
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本体論 [hontairon] was commonly used as the Japanese word for “ontology” before the adoption of the current term, 存在論 [sonzairon]. Tanabe, however, uses the term substantialism in his own sense as the way of philosophical thinking that does not pay enough attention to the necessity of negating mediation.
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Tanabe, H. (2018). Clarifying the Meaning of the Logic of Species (1, 4). In: Fujita, M. (eds) The Philosophy of the Kyoto School. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8983-1_3
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