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The Idea of Trans-national Public Philosophy as a Comprehensive Trans-Discipline for the 21st Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Naoshi Yamawaki
Naoshi Yamawaki*
Affiliation:
University of Tokyo
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Naoshi Yamawaki, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan. Email: yamawaki@waka.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp or nao-hiro@mub.biglobe.ne.jp

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In my paper, I will try to renew the public philosophy. As a result of specialization and professionalization of academic disciplines since the late 19th centuries, a rather unsound academic situation prevails at many universities in the world; social sciences without any philosophical foundation on the one hand and an academic philosophy without any concern about social theory on the other hand. In order to break out of such deadlock, the public philosophy that has a long tradition since Aristotle to Smith and Hegel must be renewed as a comprehensive trans-discipline now. The public philosophy in this sense is an attempt in the “time of post-specialization of sciences.” What I mean by the time of post-specialization is the academic environment in which social sciences, humanities and natural sciences cooperate with one another to tackle serious problems of our time such as human rights, peace building, dialogue among religions and so on.

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Diogenes , Volume 57 , Issue 3: Japanese Philosophy Today , August 2010 , pp. 135 - 149
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Copyright © ICPHS 2011

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