Shizuteru Ueda
{{Short description|Japanese philosopher (1926–2019)}}
{{Infobox philosopher
|region = Japanese philosophy
|era = 20th-century philosophy
|image = Shizuteru Ueda.jpg
|name = Shizuteru Ueda
|birth_date = {{birth date|1926|01|17}}
|birth_place = Tokyo, Japan
|death_date = {{death date and age|2019|06|28|1926|01|17}}
|nationality = {{flag|JPN|name=Japanese}}
|alma_mater = University of Marburg
Kyoto University
|institutions = Kyoto University
|school_tradition = Kyoto School
|main_interests = Buddhism, Zen, philosophy of religion
}}
{{nihongo|Shizuteru Ueda|上田 閑照|Ueda Shizuteru|January 17, 1926{{cite book|author=Fritz Buri|title=The Buddha-Christ as the Lord of the true self: the religious philosophy of the Kyoto school and Christianity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e_7D5x5VmwoC&pg=PA251|year=1997|publisher=Mercer University Press|isbn=978-0-86554-536-6|page=251}} − June 28, 2019}} was a Japanese philosopher specialized in philosophy of religion, especially in philosophy of Buddhism and Zen. He was a professor at Kyoto University and considered a third generation member of Kyoto School (京都学派, Kyoto-gakuha).{{cite web |title=上田閑照氏が死去 京都大名誉教授 | date=11 July 2019 |url=https://r.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO47233920R10C19A7AC8000?s=6 |publisher=nikkei |accessdate=11 November 2020 |language=Japanese}}
Biography
Shizuteru Ueda was born in Tokyo, Japan.
As the son of a Buddhist priest, he studied philosophy at Kyoto University where his mentor Keiji Nishitani oriented his studies toward medieval mystics.
He then went to Germany and received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Marburg with a thesis on the Western Christian mystic, Meister Eckhart. He returned to Kyoto University to teach philosophy of religion. In 1976, He was awarded a Doctor of Letters (文学博士, Bungaku-Hakushi).
He later focused on the thought of Kitaro Nishida. Being a Zen practitioner, Ueda—like Nishida—studied Zen Buddhism under the philosophical categories of Western philosophy. He is considered a third generation member of Kyoto School.
Family
- His wife is Maniko Ueda (上田真而子, Maniko Ueda), who is a Japanese literary specialized in German literature.
Bibliography
- Die Gottesgeburt in der Seele und der Durchbruch zur Gottheit. Die mystische Anthropologie Meister Eckharts und ihre Konfrontation mit der Mystik des Zen-Buddhismus. Mohn, Güterloh 1965
- Zen y filosofia, Barcelona: Herder, 2004.
References
- J. C. Maraldo: Zen, Language and the Other. The Philosophy of Ueda Shizuteru. In: The Ten Directions. Edited by Zen Center of Los Angeles and The Kuroda Institut. 10:2 (1989)
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Category:20th-century Japanese philosophers
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Category:Persons of Cultural Merit
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