Twofold Being-in-the-World in Ueda’s Philosophy: On His Interpretation of Heidegger and Nishida

• Hironobu Ota ^[1]
  1. [1] Ehime University

     Ehime University

     Japón

     
• Localización: Tetsugaku Companion to Ueda Shizuteru: Language, Experience, and Zen / Ralf Müller (ed. lit.), Raquel Bouso García (ed. lit.), Adam Loughnane (ed. lit.), 2022, ISBN 978-3-030-92320-4, págs. 153-165
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• Resumen

  • By the concept “Twofold being-in-the-world,” Ueda tries to show us his thought about the ideal experience and existence of human being. The concept draws heavily from the philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Nishida Kitarō. In this paper, I try to clarify the essence of “twofold being-in-the-world” by focusing on his interpretation of Heidegger and Nishida.

    In reference to Heidegger, Ueda regards human being as “being-in-the- world.” The world signifies not the spatial world but the totality of meaning where we live. In this “world,” we see things pragmatically and see ourselves from the horizon of social relationships. And we intend to satisfy our egoism. However, occasionally, we can see the things and ourselves without social value. Here, Ueda insists, we affirm our life and admit and love the things just as they are. Ueda calls this experience “primordial experience,” where the self becomes free from the egoism and becomes the “selfless self.” This idea comes from Nishida’s concept “pure experience” which is prior to subject-object bifurcation and breaks the closed ego. Ueda illustrates this experience by examples of Rilke’s poems and Basho’s haikus. This experience can be described ontologically as our being “located with” “hollow experience,” which is the concept referred to by Nishida’s “absolute nothingness.” From this philosophy, Ueda explains the two kinds of world in reference to Heidegger’s philosophy. Without any awareness of “hollow expanse,” the world becomes the enclosed world i.e. Heidegger’s concept: “enframing” that organizes everything into mere resource material. In contrast to this concept, through awareness of “hollow expanse,” the world becomes the opened world, i.e. Heidegger’s concept: “fourfold” that is the harmonious world between mankind (mortals) and nature (sky and earth) where we can glance at the divinities.

    Ueda uses the concept of inochi in order to describe the truth of life in the coexistence between all creatures and human being that is aware through giving up one’s egoism and knowing one’s content. Ueda’s philosophy of “two-fold-being-in-the-world” could be called the philosophy of inochi.