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The Present of Difference and the Present of Identity. Kuki’s Conception of Time

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Kuki Shūzō’s oeuvre is characterized by tensions between insistence on what is phenomenologically “given” to consciousness and the principle of identity, from which derives his speculative philosophy. The principle of identity is mainly represented by the metaphysics of the eternal return of the same, of which temporality is the “eternal present”, i.e. the present of identity. The “given concrete” is embodied by the contingent encounter common to different individuals, of which temporality is the present of the encounter, i.e. the present of difference. This paper aims to show the originality of Kuki’s phenomenology of the present, i.e. of the contingent encounter, which is his genuine first philosophy and which is prior to his speculative philosophy based on the principle of identity, from which derive the idea of the present of identity, the definition of contingency as “negation of necessity”, and the “metaphysical point of view” on contingency as possibility. However, despite this primacy of his phenomenology and the ambivalence between the present of difference and the present of identity in his thought, Kuki eventually deepened the present of identity in his speculative and existential philosophy of destiny based on the idea of the “assimilation” of others towards the identity of the I. By explaining how Kuki implicitly systematizes the tension between these two presents, this paper thus also insists on the crucial importance of the principle of identity in Kuki’s thought, on which the secondary literature in Japanese and European languages does not focus.

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hal-02404056 , version 1 (11-12-2019)

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Simon Ebersolt. The Present of Difference and the Present of Identity. Kuki’s Conception of Time. Tetsugaku: International Journal of the Philosophical Association of Japan, 2019, 3, p. 174-189. ⟨hal-02404056⟩
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