Miki Kiyoshi Quotes
Miki Kiyoshi was a Japanese philosopher of the Kyoto School and one of the most original Japanese interpreters of Marx, Heidegger, and Pascal. After studies under Nishida Kitaro and a sojourn in Heidelberg and Marburg, he developed an anthropological philosophy that took the historically situated, imaginative human being as its center, expressed in The Logic of Imagination and The Philosophical Anthropology. The quotes below are attributed to Miki Kiyoshi, organized by topic.
Miki Kiyoshi on Freedom
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Attributed to Miki Kiyoshi:
“True freedom is the formative power that shapes the chaotic given.”
Miki Kiyoshi on Mind
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Attributed to Miki Kiyoshi:
“Imagination is the constitutive principle of human historical existence.”
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Attributed to Miki Kiyoshi:
“Anthropology in the philosophical sense is the science of the historical human being.”
Miki Kiyoshi on Politics
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Attributed to Miki Kiyoshi:
“Philosophy must serve the practical task of culture.”
Miki Kiyoshi on Time
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Attributed to Miki Kiyoshi:
“The logic of history is the logic of human beings making themselves.”