The Intersubjective Being Structure of the World

Wataru Hiromatsu (1933-1994) was a Japanese philosopher who taught at the University of Tokyo, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. He developed his own philosophy based on Marx, phenomenology, and epistemology. Michael A. Santone, Jr. (translator) studied as a graduate student at the University of Tokyo under Hiromatsu. Santone taught philosophy at Temple University, Japan Campus, and now works as an independent researcher.

Introduction

 Makoko Katsumori



PART 1



Introduction: the Stagnation of Philosophy and the Problems of Epistemology

 1 The Breakdown of the Modern Worldview and the “subject-object” Schema

 2 The Impasse of Conventional Epistemology and Abandoned Issues

 3 Problems and Viewpoints that The Rebirth of Epistemology Is Confronting



1 The Fourfold Being Structure of the Phenomenal World

 1 Propaedeutic for Establishing a Starting Point

 2 The Two Object Factors in the Phenomenon

 3 The Subjective Duality of the Phenomenon

 4 The Fourfold Structural Relations of the Phenomenal World



2 The Phenomenal Subsistence Structure of the Linguistic World

 1 The Fourfold Structure of the Informational World

 2 The Being Character of Linguistic Meaning

 3 The Subsistence Structure of Linguistic Interaction



3 The Cooperative Subsistence Structure of the Historical World

 1 The Twofold Historical Formation and Its Reification

 2 The Twofoldness of the Historical Subject and Its Reification

 3 The Intersubjectivity of the Historical World and Its Fourfold Structure



PART 2



4 The Ontological Foundation of Intersubjectivity

 1 The Bodily-self and the Dimension of Other-ness

 2 The Role-Subject and the Dimension of For-the-other-ness

 3 The Transcendental Subject and the Dimension of Coexistence



5 The Epistemologically Fundamental Structure of Judgment

 1 The Psychological Aspects of the Theory of Judgment

 2 The Semantic Aspects of the Theory of Judgment

 3 Structuralist Aspect of the Theory of Judgment



References

Index