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In Praise of Philosophy with Colour

Reading Plato with Buddhist Eyes

Morimichi Kato

Introduction The idea for this paper was first conceived at the PESA Conference in Auckland in 2013, where I organised a symposium with Duck-Joo Kwak, Ruyu Hung and Mika Okabe on the theme ‘Does Place Matter for the Philosophy of Education?’ My presentation, titled ‘Against the Colourless World of Platonic Ideas,’ was inspired by Susan Sontag’s essay ‘Against Interpretation.’ Since […]

Morimichi Kato

Morimichi Kato is an emeritus professor at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan and a former professor at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. For the past 10 years, his research activity has been centred on the comparative study of the Western and the Far Eastern philosophy of education. Kato was a former editor-in-chief of Studies in the Philosophy of Education, The Philosophy of Education Society of Japan and a former editor-in-chief of the E-Journal of Philosophy of Education (International Yearbook of the Philosophy of Education Society of Japan).