{"id":17704,"date":"2023-05-22T22:09:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T13:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/?p=17704"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:26:38","slug":"sils-faculty-seminar-sentiment-analysis-for-interdisciplinary-projects-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/news\/2023\/05\/22\/17704\/","title":{"rendered":"[SILS Faculty Seminar]  Mystery Studies and Philosophy in the Work of Inoue Enryo"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Lecturer: STONE, Richard<br \/>\n*Lecturer Information:<a href=\"https:\/\/w-rdb.waseda.jp\/html\/100003316_en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/w-rdb.waseda.jp\/html\/100003316_en.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Title: Mystery Studies and Philosophy in the Work of Inoue Enryo<span lang=\"en-US\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Day and Time: May 18 ,2023\u00a0 \u00a0 6:00pm-<\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Abstract:<br \/>\n<i><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">Among all the oddities that occurred as philosophy developed in the intellectual world of the Meiji period (1868-1912), perhaps there are few events more curious than Inoue Enryo\u2019s insistence on \u201cMystery Studies (<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">\u5996\u602a\u5b66<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">)\u201d as a novel form of metaphysics. Indeed, while it is well-known that Enryo was a master debunker of superstitions, explaining away supernatural phenomena like monsters as part of the Meiji modernization process, less recognized is the fact that he seemed to believe Mystery Studies to be the \u201cflipside (<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">\u88cf\u9762\u6a29\u9053<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">)\u201d of Philosophy. This raises an obvious question: what relation could there possibly be between Philosophy and debunking superstitious beliefs among the public?<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this presentation, I will attempt to briefly introduce the complicated web of concepts in the background of Enryo\u2019s vision of Mystery Studies as the \u201cflipside\u201d of Philosophy. In doing so, I will first work through the social factors that tie together not only his interest in not only Philosophy and Mystery Studies, but also his background as a reformer of Buddhism. After clarifying the background of his work, I will make some basic remarks on how Philosophy (as a top-down approach) and Mystery Studies (as a bottom-up approach) are both said to pursue the \u201ctrue mystery (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u771f\u602a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)\u201d of human life. To end this presentation, I will make some short remarks on both the metaphysical implications of this concept of a \u201ctrue mystery\u201d and the impact that Enryo\u2019s work had on philosophy in Japan.<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<\/span>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17706 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Image-60-scaled-e1684760826521-610x477.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Image-60-scaled-e1684760826521-610x477.jpeg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Image-60-scaled-e1684760826521-940x735.jpeg 940w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Image-60-scaled-e1684760826521-768x600.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Image-60-scaled-e1684760826521-1536x1201.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Image-60-scaled-e1684760826521.jpeg 1939w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17705 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Image-61-scaled-e1684760907920-610x462.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Image-61-scaled-e1684760907920-610x462.jpeg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Image-61-scaled-e1684760907920-940x712.jpeg 940w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Image-61-scaled-e1684760907920-768x582.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Image-61-scaled-e1684760907920.jpeg 1452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecturer: STONE, Richard *Lecturer Information:https:\/\/w-rdb.waseda.jp\/html\/100003316_en.html Title: Mystery S [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,1],"tags":[82,115,176,76,73,63,177,28],"class_list":["post-17704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-news","tag-events-en","tag-faculty-report-en","tag-facultyseminar-en","tag-outreach-en","tag-research-en","tag-outreach","tag-facultyseminar","tag-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22923,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17704\/revisions\/22923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}