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    Nishida's universalism is still plagued by exemplary particularism, merely shifting the locus of the concrete universal from Europe to Japan rather than overcoming Eurocentrism.

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    • 1.Nishida's 'place' (basho) logic consistently assigns Japan a privileged mediating role between East and West in his wartime writings.
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    • 2.A genuine concrete universal, in Hegel's own formulation, cannot be instantiated by any historically particular nation-state without self-contradiction.
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    • 3.Nishida's framework reproduces the Hegelian error of identifying Geist's culmination with a specific civilization, merely substituting Japan for Prussia.
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    • 1.Spivak's critique of strategic essentialism shows that inverting a hierarchical particular-universal structure preserves rather than dismantles the oppressive logic.
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    • 2.Nishida never provides a non-culturally-indexed criterion by which the 'concrete universal' could be recognized independently of Japanese cultural particularity.
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    • 1.Nishida questions Eurocentrism by positioning Japan as the bearer of the concrete universal.
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    • 2.Replacing one particular locus (Europe) with another (Japan) does not constitute genuine universalism.
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    Critics may argue that Nishida’s universalism is still plagued by an exemplary particularism,[17] and that he succeeds in questioning Eurocentrism only by way of shifting the locus of the concrete universal to Japan. Yoko Arisaka argues that “the chief claim of the defenders—that Nishida’s philosophical ‘universalism’ is incompatible with nationalist ideology—fails because universalist discourse was used both as a tool of liberation and oppression in Japan’s case” (Arisaka 1999, 242). Arisaka
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