From the Collection:
This collection was organized by Richard J. DeMartino during his tenure as one of the “historian advisors” to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East between 1946-1948.
The files contain excerpts of official documents, documents and DeMartino’s handwritten notes. Excerpts from the Diary of Marquis Kōichi Kido are present in each file, as if DeMartino was using Kido’s notes as a guide to the research he was working on. There are also many excerpts from Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States Japan: 1931-1941, Washinton: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1943, 2 v.
Conference Purpose
The status of the individual has been a constant and basic problem in the history of philosophy in both Asia and the West and in practically all the major philosophical and cultural traditions within each of these areas. The varying status of the individual has also been the basis of serious mutual criticism and misunderstanding between East and West, and is a most crucial problem in the contemporary world—socially, politically, religiously, and philospohically.
In view of the profound and far-reaching significance of this problem, the Conference will study its philosophical aspects in depth and as comprehensively as time and circumstances permit. The Conference will consider concepts, theories, attitudes, and practices—past and present—in the major philosophical and cultural traditions of East and West. It will examine—and attempt to overcome—common pertinent misunderstandings and antagonisms which exist between East and West. It will thus come to grips, philosophically, with one of the most fundamental problems facing the contemporary and changing world of Asia and the West.
List of Participants & Essays
- Kalidas Bhattacharyya “The Status of the Individual in Indian Metaphysics”
- Wing-tsit Chan “The Individual in Chinese Religions”
- S. Dasgupta “The Individual in Indian Ethics”
- Thomé H. Fang “The World and the Individual in Chinese Metaphysics”
- John N. Findlay “The Diremptive Tendencies of Western Philosophy”
- Tesshi Furukawa “The Individual in Japanese Ethics”
- Ichiro Hori ‘The Appearance of Individual Self-Consciousness in Japanese Religion and Its Historical Transformations”
- Hsieh Yu-wei “The Status of the Individual in Confucian Ethics”
- Takeyoshi Kawashima “The Status of the Individual in the Notion of Law, Right, and Social Order in Japan”
- Masaaki Kōsaka “The Status of the Role of the Individual in Japanese Society”
- Harold E. McCarthy “Knowledge, Skepticism, and the Individual”
- Richard P. McKeon “The Individual in Law and in Legal Philosophy in the West”
- G. P. Malalasekera “The Status of the Individual in Buddhism” (With special reference to Theravāda)
- Y. P. Mei “The Status of the Individual in Chinese Social Thought and Practice”
- T. R. V. Murti “The World and the Individual in Indian Religious Thought”
- Hajime Nakamura “Consciousness of the Individual and the Universal Among the Japanese”
- Raymond Polin “The Political Status of the Contemporary Individual in the West”
- P. T. Raju “Indian Epistemology and the World and the Individual”
- S. K. Saksena “The Individual in Social Thought and Practice in India”
- John E. Smith “The Individual and the Judeo-Christian Tradition”
- Edward W. Strong “Searches for Agreement by Persuasion”
- T’ang Chün-i “The Individual and the World in Chinese Methodology”
- Tara Chand “The Individual in the Legal and Political Thought and the Institutions of India”
- Yoshifumi Ueda “The World and the Individual in Mahāyāna Buddhist Philosophy”
- W. H. Werkmeister “The Status of the Person in Western Ethics”
- John C. H. Wu “The Status of the Individual in the Political and Legal Traditions of Old and New China”
Public Lectures
- Wing-tsit Chan “Confucius in China, 1964”
- Sterling M. McMurrin “The Individual in American Philosophy”
- Constantin Regamey “The Individual and the Universal in East and West”
- D. T. Suzuki “The Individual Person in Zen”
- Tara Chand “The Status of the Individual in Indian Culture”
