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Part 2, further analysis and discussion.

In our previous instalment, we spoke about the history of what the kids are calling,

the Kyoto School of Philosophy, and a delightful chap called Tanabe Hajime.

We ended that instalment speaking about Tanabe's critique of Kant's critique of pure reason,

and Tanabe didn't stop there. He was also interested in a little known figure called Hegel.

Takeshi, in your chapter of your forthcoming book, The Dialectics of Absolute Nothingness,

you focus on this strand of Tanabe's work,

namely his interpretation of the Hegelian dialectic. Besides a small section on Hegel in our

episode on Marx, we've largely managed to avoid discussing Hegel on the show up to this point.

What do we need to know about Hegel in order to understand Tanabe's

work? I can feel the smile from a Hegelian specialist Greg right there. One of the most

important contribution that you can say in the context of Hegelian philosophy is the power

of dialectic. And which existed in the history of Asian philosophies.

For instance, you pay attention to Nagau Juna, you know, Tentai and all different strands of

Buddhist philosophy has their own version of dialectic. But Hegel is the one that I argue that

this concept of dialect is running through not only the history of European

philosophy but history of world philosophy that come from East and manifested in the modern

Germany. I think Kyoto School philosophy started to realize there's profound resonance between

Hegelian conception of dialectic to their own intellectual heritage of dialectical thinking.

So you've been hearing a lot about contradictions,

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