Hierarchy in Early Modern Culture: Dante’s Divine Comedy and Boccaccio’s Decameron

Roughly and historically speaking, Renaissance, Reformation, and the Copernican Revolution are found nearly at the same time in European history. Continue reading →

The Impossible Made Possible

The Impossible Have you ever seen a haired turtle or a horned rabbit? Or for that matter, have you ever Continue reading →

The Duality of Time in Eastern and Western Philosophy

Time as Kairos What is time? There are found in Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (OALD) there at least two meanings Continue reading →

On Infinity: The School of Names (名家) and Nicholas of Cusa

The School of Names is a group of philosophers in ancient China, who liked to discuss infinity and to enjoy Continue reading →

Mediating Suppression: At the Crossroads of Judaism, Marxism, Freudianism

The Systems of Judaism, Marxism, and Freudianism Structurally speaking, Judaism, Marxism, and Freudianism each constitute a thought system, and their Continue reading →

The Idea of Just Punishment in Buddhism and Utilitarianism

What is Justice?If we pay 1,000 yen and are given something worth 500 yen, we will complain, angry. If we Continue reading →

On Category: Socrates, Plato and Ryle vs. Gongsun Long and Darwin

What do we mean when we talk about categories? A category is a group of things that have common features; Continue reading →

Meta-Relativism 2: Asia’s Ancient Thinkers

In part 1, I dealt with relativism, agnosticism, and what I call meta-relativism, concerning thinkers mainly in ancient Greece and Continue reading →