Understanding the Role of Consciousness in Maruyama’s Political Philosophy

• Main Author: Boongaling, Pamela Ann J.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2019
• Subjects: autonomy; basso ostinato; consciousness; education-based nation; Masao Maruyama; ultranationalism
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/apssr/vol19/iss4/10; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/apssr/article/1268/viewcontent/RA_209.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

In this paper, I will argue that Masao Maruyama’s concept, basso ostinato, is best understood in conjunction with the evolution of the term consciousness in Japanese intellectual thought. Doing so allows us (1) to provide a more charitable interpretation of Maruyama’s basso ostinato and (2) to suppl...