East Asia is not at all culturally rich. In addition, China is full of wrong things…You can read it as a record of people who continued to do wrong things without trying to learn anything.

They wanted to protect the authority of the sociology department of the University of Tokyo. That was unfortunate for the positivists within the University of Tokyo.
November 29, 2020.
I have known Hiroshi Furuta since August six years ago.
Hiroshi Furuta is one of the leading scholars in the postwar world, just as Masayuki Takayama is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
The Asahi Shimbun has never informed us of the existence of such a person.
The Asahi Shimbun's ineptitude is proven beyond measure by this single point alone.
By his own admission, he is second only to Hidehiro Okada as a scholar.
I have not read any of Okada's books, but I must say that not only do both Furuta and Takayama pay him the highest respect, but even Wang Qizan praises the depth of Okada's scholarship.
Hiroshi Furuta sometimes unleashes his unique sense of humor, which makes me laugh out loud every time.
He also has a humor that only the real thing has.
The following is from a collection of articles he has been writing in a monthly magazine titled "Fighting Epicurus.
I laughed out loud from the very beginning.

Let's create the right mindset for the new era.
The authority of the humanities at the University of Tokyo has fallen to the ground.　
The following dialogue is based on a phone call from a specific lady, a former newspaper reporter.
She asked, "Sensei, how do you know so much about Western philosophy?"　
"Because ever since childhood, I listened to my classes halfheartedly and read Western original texts on my lap."
"You didn't read anything Japanese?"
"Because I thought that since the Intellectuals called the Japanese stupid, useless, and indigene, their writings must also be the product of silly, ineffective, and indigene."
"Haha, what happened to the university?"
"My advisor was Hiroaki Kani (historical anthropology), the son of a substitute teacher in Gifu, and he was a hyper-realist, so he didn't lie to me. One day, he told me this."
-Fruita, I would not have studied China if I had come from a good family.
"Then where would you have studied?"
"European studies, of course."
"I knew it, so I continued to study the original European texts independently."
"Why couldn't you have studied Europe from the beginning?"
"It is difficult unless you come from a good family and have a lot of cultural capital accumulated by your grandfathers and parents. The cultural layer is very thick. There is a mixture of wrong and useless things, so you have to pick out the good ones and move on. If you accumulate zero such experience, it will become your hobby."
"What about East Asia?"　
"East Asia is not at all culturally rich. In addition, China is full of wrong things, so it is easier to go to Korea if it is also useless. And the Chinese writing is easy. You can read it as a record of people who continued to do wrong things without trying to learn anything. Then you will have time to read the original Western texts."　
Isn't that terrible?　
Yes, it is terrible. But the reality is ruthless, bleak, and cruel. Don't think that learning is noble. Medicine is covered in blood, and engineering is covered in oil. It is enough if the humanities are noble in the character of the scholar who writes about them.　
"There were people who made you think that academia was noble.　
Germans are terrible. He had such a complex situation about Britain and France that he tried to act proudly to compensate for it, but in reality, he had fallen into arrogance."
"For example, see ......."　
Kant left out an important concept, the Idea. It has spread a sense of despair among young people that they will never be able to attain the 'divine realm = truth. It is called the 'Kantian crisis. Hegel lied that 'the progress of history is inevitable. But this relieved the German intellectuals who had an Anglo-French complex. After all, it took 30 years for Germany to reunify. It is easy to see that history is not progressing if we remember that beyond Angkor Wat was not the Middle Ages but the jungle's darkness. History has seen far more nations fall without progress."
"The backward Japanese intellectuals were relieved to be fooled by this."
"Hegel's 'progressive historical view' was dressed up as science by Marx and became 'materialistic historical view. We continued to believe it. Professor Masao Maruyama realized in 1985 that there are no laws in history, only causality. However, he realized that if he said this, it would destroy all of his achievements on which he had been riding, so he changed his statement four years later. 'Stand on the progressive view of history to defend our orthodoxy,' he said, urging his disciples to go blind (see "Orthodoxy and Heresy," pp. 49, 50, 53, 195)."
"Why would it break down?"　
"If you are a positivist scholar, you read the records yourself, find the cause-and-effect relationships, and write your thesis. In other words, history is made by the scholar himself. He writes with that kind of awareness. Since scholars of progressive history are unaware of this, they have yet to conduct empirical research."
"The world has found out that they haven't been empirical."　
Yes, that is the cruel reality. Humanities scholars at the University of Tokyo have done nothing but formulate authority without conducting empirical research. The same is true of sociologist Professor Sousuke Mita, who, in 2006, when sociology had fallen into a situation that could not be defined, conversely encouraged his students to be ignorant and unaware, saying that sociology is knowledge that transcends boundaries (see his collection of works, "Transcending Borders: Knowledge that Transcends Borders"). He probably wanted to protect the sociology authority at the University of Tokyo. That was unfortunate for the positivists within the University of Tokyo."　
"Were you doing positivist research?　
"Yes, I was. I was doing social science by combining empirical research with intuition and transcendence. I experimented with the Old Testament records to see if they could be used for anything."　
"Is that the book you were working on the other day?"　
"Yes, that book. And I could finally say what I wrote about the "hidden quality" in the afterword of "East Asia 'Anti-Japan' Triangle" (Bunshun Shinsho, 2005) (laugh)."
This article continues.

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