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    It is not the case that 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 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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    • 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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