was a Japanese philosopher who promoted the concept of World Government for purposes of peace.

Career

Tanikawa studied in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kyoto, where he was one of the students of

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, the leader of the Kyoto School. Tanikawa introduced philosophical ideas in Japan through his translations of

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and Immanuel Kant. His major philosophical influence was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He questioned how world peace could be realized in the face of

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at the beginning of the

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. He was the father of the poet

Shuntarō Tanikawa (born December 15, 1931 in Tokyo City, Japan) is a Japanese poet and translator. He is one of the most widely read and highly regarded of living Japanese poets, both in Japan and abroad, and a frequent subject of speculations regarding the Nob ...

References

1895 births 1989 deaths 20th-century Japanese translators Kyoto University alumni 20th-century Japanese philosophers {{Japan-translator-stub