Tanabe Hajime's Understanding of Kantian Teleology

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Tanabe Hajime's Treatise on Kant's Teleology (1924) was very significant in two respects. First, his understanding of Kant's philosophy was well above the common level of Japanese students of that subject at that time. Secondly, that treatise proved to be the turning point in the development of Tanabe's own philosophy. It seems that the encounter with Kantian teleology broke new ground for his philosophical thinking. In fact, after a few years he came to take a great interest in Hegel's dialectical way of thinking. Eventually his philosophy came to assume a different aspect. In this paper I explicate the metamorphosis which Tanabe's way of thinking underwent through his Treatise on Kant's Teleology. As Tanabe states it, teleology, which Kant treats comprehensively in his Critique of the Power of Judgment, includes several parts of various historical origins. The meanings of the purposiveness, discussed in each part, are apparently differentiated. However, Tanabe categorizes the purposiveness discussed in Critique of the Power of Judgment into three types: the formal purposiveness, the inward purposiveness and the self-aware purposiveness, and examines whether the three types form a system of teleology, functioning closely together. I consider in order how Tanabe describes each type of purposiveness and how he succeeds in understanding Kant's teleology as the consistent development of the will of reason. From such consideration I conclude that Tanabe's study of Kantian teleology led him inevitably to the concentration upon a Hegelian dialectical way of thinking. In this way I explain the necessity of his apparent metamorphosis into a dialectical thinker.
鈴鹿国際大学の論文
2005-03-20

Tanabe Hajime's Understanding of Kantian Teleology

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