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Hiroshi Kojima's Phenomenological Ontology
- Philosophy East and West
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 58, Number 2, April 2008
- pp. 163-189
- 10.1353/pew.2008.0024
- Article
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In his book Monad and Thou: Phenomenological Ontology of the Human Being, Japanese philosopher Hiroshi Kojima proposes to redefine the I-Thou relation, first extensively investigated by Martin Buber, and to reconcile the notions of 'individuality' and 'community' in terms of his new phenomenological ontology of the human being as monad. In this essay, Kojima's ideas are examined concerning the monad and intersubjectivity, and it is shown how these ideas can be extended and brought to bear on issues concerning human encounters with the environment and, in particular, to nonhuman animals.