Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy

Takeshi Morisato is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Research Centre for East Asian Studies (EASt) and at the Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Etude des Religions et de la Laïcité (CIERL), Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

• Foreword AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart 1: Methodological Reflections on Comparative Philosophy: Through the Works of Desmond and Tanabe1. The Metaxological Methodology of Comparative Philosophy2. The Metanoetic Methodology in the Contemporary Comparative Philosophy of Tanabe HajimePart 2: The Fundamental Problems of the Philosophy of Religion: Thinking Through Rational Universalism 3. Kant and the Problems of Religion: Practical Reason and Rational Faith 4. Hegel and the Problem of the Philosophy of Religion: Dynamic Reason and Its Sublation of Faith Part 3: Metaxology and the Problems of the Philosophy of Religion 5. Metaxological Fidelity to the Absolute and the Singular: From the Hyperboles of Being to the Agapeic Origin 6. The Metaxological Absolute and Its Inter-Relation With the SingularPart 4: Metanoetics and the Problems of the Philosophy of Religion 7. Tanabe Hajime and Buddhism For the Philosophy of Religion8. Tanabe Hajime and the Problems of the Philosophy of ReligionConclusion NotesBibliographyIndex

[B]oth a significant contribution to the dialogue of Western and Eastern thinking, or more specifically to the dialogue of Desmond’s metaxological and Tanabe’s metanoetic thinking, and the philosophical area of comparative philosophy in general.