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In this chapter I will discuss the relationship between Kierkegaard and the Japanese scholar Arimasa Mori (1911–76), one of the more famous philosophers and Christian thinkers in modern Japan. Mori’s particular significance in Japan lies in his position as one of a small number of intellectuals who struggled to be individuals in the Western sense of the term. Beneath these struggles lay strong interests in Western thought, culture and civilization.
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Ayako Sekiya, Ippan no kashi no ki [An Oak Tree: an Essay on the Mori Family] ( Tokyo: Nihon kirisoto kyodan syuppankyoku, 1981 ) p. 72.
Ayako Sekiya, Furikaerunobe no michi [Looking Back on the Path through the Field: Memories of my Life] ( Tokyo: Nihon kirisoto kyodan syuppankyoku, 2000 ) p. 29.
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Kunio Tsuji, Tsuji Kunio zenshū [Complete Works of Kunio Tsuji] 15 (Tokyo: Shincho-sya, 2005 ) p. 188.
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Kunio Tsuji, Tsuji Kunio zenshū [Complete Works of Kunio Tsuji] 15 (Tokyo: Shincho-sya, 2005 ) p. 177.
Haruo Sugimoto, Mori Arimasa ron [An Essay on Arimasa Mori] ( Tokyo: Chuseki-sya, 2004 ) p. 150.
Arimasa Mori, Mori Arimasa essay-shu [Collected Essays of Arimasa Mori] 2 (Tokyo: Chikuma-shobo, 1999 ) p. 151.
Arimasa Mori, Furui mono to atarashii mono [The Old Thing and The New Thing] ( Tokyo: Nihon kirisoto kyodan syuppankyoku, 1975 ) p. 57.
Arimasa Mori, Abraham no shōgai [The Life of Abraham] ( Tokyo: Nihon kirisoto kyodan syuppankyoku, 1975 ) p. 11.
Arimasa Mori, Hikari to Yami [The Light and Darkness] ( Tokyo: Nihon kirisoto kyodan syuppankyoku, 1977 ) p. 80.
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Morita, M. (2008). Mori and Kierkegaard: Experience and Existence. In: Giles, J. (eds) Kierkegaard and Japanese Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230589827_12
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