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Tetsujiro Inoue (Japanese井上 哲 次郎; born December 25, 1856 in Buzen, † November 9, 1944 in Kahoku, Ishikawa ) was a Japanese philosopher.
Life
Inoue studied philosophy at the University of Tokyo, where he occupied an assistant professor from 1882. In the same year he published the poetry anthology Shintaishishō out ( A selection of verses for new pattern ) and was a pioneer of Shintaishi movement. At the same time he promoted the exploration of the Western seal.
From 1884 to 1890 he studied in Heidelberg and Leipzig German Idealism. Back in Japan, Inoue held until his retirement in 1923 lectures this matter and on other philosophical currents.
Philosophy
Inoue was opponents of Christianity, which he held for the Japanese culture and the Japanese national essence incompatible, what he did, especially in the pamphlet Teishitsu to shūkyō no kankei 1890 expressed. Followed a year later his most important political writing Kokka to Yaso - kyō to no shōtotsu ( The conflict between nation and Christianity ).
Instead, he campaigned for the preservation of traditional Japanese values . Thus, his studies are devoted mainly to the Japanese Confucianism in modern times. Inoue wrote here about a trilogy, which is considered a standard work today.
Inoue enjoyed great prestige in the academic world and worked as the editor of important journals, the Eastern Art and Sciences and Light in the Far East.