2024 Volume 46 Issue 2 Pages 117-136
Masakazu Nakai, a Kyoto School aesthetician who discussed sports as philosophy, considered the concepts of “type” and “common sense”. The influence of Yasukazu Fukada, Nakaiʼs aesthetic mentor, and Kitaro Nishida is important in interpreting Nakaiʼs insights. It can be observed that Nakai references Nishidaʼs discourse on “type”, highlighting its connection to “common sense”. He then expands the discourse by referencing Fukadaʼs reflections on aesthetic aspects related to “Mood” (Stimmung).
The concept of “type” that Nakai refers to does not signify the extension of the parts preceding the whole but rather the intension of the whole preceding the parts. This becomes evident as Nishida focuses on “order type” as concrete universal, and Fukada emphasizes a differential “Mood”. Nakai identifies features that the intension is discovered as a common sense through the body. Furthermore, Nakai identifies features of intension in Heideggerʼs fore-structure (vor-struktur) and mood (stimmung), examining them within the context of sports mood (stimmung).
However, there is a distinction in the interpretation of intension between Nishida and Nakai. Nakai views Nishidaʼs type as a static intension with an absolute foundation. On the other hand, Nakai seeks a dynamic intension. Consequently, Nakai considers types not solely as an end but also as a means to generate new types. In Nakaiʼs concept of a perpetual means-ends scheme (purposiveness without a purpose), we discern the influence of “Aesthetic Disinterestedness” that Fukada found in Kant.
