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Japanese philosopher
Tomonobu Imamichi
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Born
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1922-11-19
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November 19, 1922
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Died
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(2012-10-13)
(aged 89)
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Nationality
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Occupation
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Tomonobu Imamichi
(
今道 友信
,
Imamichi Tomonobu
, November 19, 1922 ? October 13, 2012)
was a
Japanese philosopher
who studied
Chinese philosophy
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Life
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Imamichi taught in Europe (Paris and Germany) as well as in Japan (he was also emeritus professor of the
University of Palermo
). Beginning in 1979 he was the president of the
Centre International pour l'Etude Comparee de Philosophie et d'Esthetique
and after 1997 of the
International Institute of Philosophy
. In 1976 he founded the journal
Aesthetics
.
He translated
Aristotle
's
Poetics
into Japanese (in 1972) and has written numerous books in Japanese. Imamichi was a supporter of
communication between cultures
. He characterizes
Western philosophy
as an attempt to achieve a God's eye view (
das in-dem-Gott-sein
; to be in the being of God) and
Eastern philosophy
as an attempt to be in the world (
das in-der-Welt-sein
). Imamichi sees in both stances two incomplete and complementary
humanisms
, and observes that since the publication of
The Book of Tea
, some Western philosophers have adopted a more Eastern stance while other Eastern philosophers have attempted to reach the Absolute or the Eternal.
Tomonobu Imamichi was the father of guitarist and songwriter
Tomotaka Imamichi
, pianist Nobuko Kawaguchi, biologist Yukiko Imamichi and psychologist Tomoaki Imamichi.
Bibliography
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- In Search of Wisdom. One Philosopher's Journey
, Tokyo, International House of Japan, 2004
- 'Restrospectiva et Prospectiva Eco-ethics' in
Acta Institutionis Philosophiae et Aestheticae
, 2004, 22:1-10 (an article written in English, Latin, German, French, Chinese, etc.)
- Betrachtungen uber das Eine
, Institute of Aesthetics of Tokyo, 1968
- Aspects of Beautiful and Art
, 1968
- Self-Development of the Identity
, 1970
- The Localisation and the orientation of Interpretation
, 1972
- Essay on Beauty
, 1973
- Studia Comparata de Esthetica
, 1976
- Aristotle
, 1980
- Aesthetics in the Orient
, 1980
- Philosophy in the East and in the West
, 1981
- Contemporary Philosophy
, 1984
- The History of the Western Philosophy
, 1986
- Eco-Ethica
, 1990
- Le texte comme distance de la Divinite
, in
Archivio di filosofia
anno LX, 1992, 1-3
- Introduzione alla Filosofia Naturale
, 1993.
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