Abstraction; Ethics; Japanese Logic; Madhyamika; Rationalism; Sueki, T.
摘要
This is a critique of T. Sueki's article "an example of Japanese rationalism," (same issue,philosophy east and west,volume XXIV,number 3,349-362). First,I claim that the presupposition that Japanese thought is irrational,to which Sueki's article is a counter-example,is both vague and false; secondly,Sueki's symbolization with mathematical logic adds no additional clarity nor 'rationality'; thirdly,s Ninomiya's 19th century use of 3rd century Buddhist Madhyamika philosophical concepts is not completely compatible with Nagarjuna's Madhyamika system.