"Onozukara" to "Mizukara" Nippon Shiso No Kiso (Chiku Ma Gakugei Bunko)

[Machine Translation] In Japanese, "on its own" and "from itself" are both expressed as "from oneself". They mean "to be" and "to do," "thing" and "self," "nature" and "freedom," but they are not clearly separated, and there is an "awai" between them that crosses, conquers, and conflicts. What are the basic ideas of the Japanese people, and what kind of thought and culture have they fostered? This book, while going back and forth widely and deeply into various fields of thought, religion, literature, and the performing arts, reexamines the Japanese people's correlative perception of nature and self, the relationship between transcendence and ethics, and their view of impermanence and life and death from the very roots up. This is a major work by the author, an ethicist and historian of Japanese thought.

日本語において「おのずから」と「みずから」は、ともに「自(ずか)ら」とあらわす。成ることと為すこと、物と自己、自然と自由を意味するが、截然と分けられず、両者には交差・共和・相克する「あわい」がある。そこに見られる日本人の基本的発想とは何であり、それはまたどのような思想文化を育んできたのか。本書は、思想・宗教・文学・芸能の諸領域を広く深く行き来しながら、日本人の自然と自己との相関的認識、超越と倫理との関わり、そして無常観と死生観を根源から問いなおす。倫理学者・日本思想史家である著者の代表作。