Shizuteru Ueda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese philosopher
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Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
About Shizuteru Ueda
- Shizuteru Ueda (?? ??, Ueda Shizuteru, born January 17, 1926) is a Japanese philosopher specializing in philosophy of religion. 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 where he 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.
- Later he specialized in 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.
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