Tanabe Hajime Quotes
Tanabe Hajime was a Japanese philosopher of the Kyoto School and the principal successor of Nishida Kitaro at Kyoto Imperial University. After early studies in philosophy of mathematics and physics he engaged the phenomenological and dialectical traditions of European philosophy, developing his original logic of species as a mediating term between the universal and the individual. The quotes below are attributed to Tanabe Hajime, organized by topic.
Tanabe Hajime on Death
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Attributed to Tanabe Hajime:
“I had to die in order to live.”
Tanabe Hajime on God
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Attributed to Tanabe Hajime:
“Faith is reason's other-power.”
Tanabe Hajime on Knowledge
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Attributed to Tanabe Hajime:
“Philosophy must begin with the limits of philosophy itself.”
Tanabe Hajime on Politics
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Attributed to Tanabe Hajime:
“The species mediates between the individual and the universal.”
Tanabe Hajime on Virtue
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Attributed to Tanabe Hajime:
“Philosophy as metanoetics is the philosophy of repentance.”