The Orientation of Japanese Philosophy: Feeling in Nishida, or Scientific Attitude in Tanabe

The aim of this chapter is to focus on two representatives of Japanese philosophy: Nishida Kitarō, and Tanabe Hajime. More precisely, I shall compare their philosophies from the perspective of emotion or feeling. Nishida philosophy considers feeling to be essential, even incorporating it within the construction of his logic. Tanabe philosophy, meanwhile, avoided this kind of theoria, by pursuing a logic that emphasized thoroughgoing, practical action. However in the end, Tanabe persisted in his attempts to comprehend emotion or feeling in a scholarly manner.