Classification and Analysis of Data for Investigating the Basic Categories of the Western Thought

我们项目的目的是制作基础材料，以调查和理解西方思想基础的基本概念。我们选择了许多西方文化底层的基本概念作为研究对象，如“存在”、“成为”、“理解”等。我们利用大量的西方古代和中世纪哲学文献数据库，努力了解西方思想的基本思维方式。中泽研究了希腊哲学是如何被西方文化接受的，在接受的过程中，希腊哲学的基本概念经历了怎样的变形。他主要分析了柏拉图在对话录中对真理、知识、存在等概念的理解，以及柏拉图和亚里士多德对美德、善、快乐等伦理概念的理解。特别是，他对柏拉图的《斐利比书》进行了详细的研究。HANAI研究了中世纪哲学基本概念的独特性及其对西方文化的影响。他特别分析了托马斯·阿奎那和埃克哈特的基本概念。

The purpose of our project was to make basic materials to investigate and understand the basic concepts that lie at the base of western thought. We chose as subjects of our investigation many basic concepts which have been functioning at the bottom of western culture, such as "being", "becoming", "understand" etc. By making use of many databeses of literatures of wstern ancient and medieval philosophy, we made efforts to understand the basic way of thinking of the western thought.1. NAKAZAWA made research on how Greek Philosophy is accepted by western culture, and in the process of acceptance, what transfiguration its basic concepts have undergone. He mainly analyzed how the concepts of truth, knowledge, existence, etc. are understood by Plato in his dialogues, and the ethical concepts such as virtue, good, pleasure, etc. are understood by Plato and Aristotle. Especially, he made detailed research on Plato's Philebus.2. HANAI made research on the uniqueness of the basic concepts of the medieval philosophy and its influence on the western culture. He especially analyzed the basic concepts of Thomas Aquinas and Eckhart.