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HEIDEGGER’S COMPORTMENT TOWARD EAST-WEST DIALOGUE Lin Ma and Jaap van Brakel Institute of Philosophy, K. U. Leuven I. Introduction Broadly speaking, there have been three approaches adopted by scholars writing on Martin Heidegger in relation to Eastern thinking. The first approach may be called a study of the impact and influence, either of Heidegger’s philosophy on the intellectual development of a number of Asian scholars contemporaneous with Heidegger or of Asian thought on Heidegger’s way of philosophizing. The impact of Heidegger’s philosophy on Japanese scholars has been well documented in various publications, particularly those in the German language.1 According to Yuasa Yasuo, ‘‘There is probably general agreement that among philosophers in the contemporary world Heidegger has left the greatest as well as the most continuous influence on philosophy in Japan’’ (Yuasa 1987, p. 174; cf. O¯ hashi 1989b). Representative of this approach is the work of Reinhard May. In his monograph Light from the East: Heidegger’s Work under East Asian Influence (1989, 1996),2 May undertook an unprecedentedly thorough investigation of the extent to which Heidegger may have drawn inspiration from East Asian thought. May aimed to demonstrate that this influence had an unparalleled significance, in that in some cases ‘‘Heidegger even appropriated wholesale, almost verbatim, major ideas from the German translations of Daoist and Zen Buddhist classics.’’3 May’s...
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