ビーバー　ト　コウイテキ　チョッカン　コウキ　ニシダ　キタロウ　ノ　マルチスピーシーズ　テツガク　シロン

Beavers and the Enactive-Intuition : An Attempt at Later Nishida Kitarō’s Multispecies Philosophy

マツギ, タカヤ

Matsugi, Takaya

ビーバー

マルチスピーシーズ

行為的直観

Nishida Kitarō

Beavers

Multispecies

Enactive Intuition

Nishida Kitarō, a Japanese philosopher, conceptualized the historical world as a mediating process of interactive creation consisting of innumerable individuals. This paper reinterprets his later philosophy through a multispecies lens, drawing on contemporary discussions of multispecies ethnography in anthropology and the environmental humanities. The first part of the paper explores key concepts in Nishida’s theory of the individual, including “body,” “enactive-intuition,” “time,” and “poiesis.”The second part focuses on sporadic, but significant references to beavers, often presented negatively in his work. However, a deeper examination of beaver ecology reveals that beavers exemplify Nishida’s theory of individual. This analysis reframes Nishida’s perspective, positioning his treatment of beavers as an early, radical multispecies philosophy that extends beyond human and even biogenic boundaries.