Genjitsu in The Problem of Contingency

クキ　シュウゾウ　ノ　グウセンセイ　ノ　モンダイ　ニ　オケル　ゲンジツ

オダ, カズアキ

Oda, Kazuaki

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

現実

偶然性

行為

主体

Kuki Shūzō

Genjitsu

contingency

action

subject

We can fi nd a consistent object of study in the philosophy of Kuki Shūzō (1888-1941). Specifi cally, it is the idea of “vivid philosophy”, in other words, philosophy that pursues Genjitsu (actuality/reality). Kuki thinks that the basis is “our people” that supported by the community and history in The Structure of “Iki”. However, in The Problem of Contingency, he thinks that this basis is the presence that “I” face now. In The Problem of Contingency, Kuki seeks the way of composing a community and history on the basis of the presence that “I” face now. “I” analyses the meanings of Genjitsu in The Problem of Contingency and approach to this fundamental topic of Kuki philosophy. I study Kuki’s modal logic treated in “Disjunctive Contingency,” the third chapter of The Problem of Contingency. His modal logic is composed by two axes: the disjunctive model and the quality axis. The disjunctive model analyses being. The quality axis is composed by reality and nihility introduces the thought which based on the facts. The fi rst system of Kuki’s modal logic is based on the disjunctive model. It shows the way of comprehending the fact as the actuality. The second model is based on both the disjunctive model and the quality axis. It shows the way of developing our thought on the fact. The second system describes our Genjitsu composed by both actuality and reality. The third system and the Principle of Production show the way of the formation of the action. Throughout these three systems, Kuki describes how human beings comprehend the actuality, develop the thought and form the action. In other words, he describes the formation of the subject throughout these three systems. The subject that Kuki describes is too fragile since it is based on the contingency, but his theory of the subject captures a partial truth of us.