curriculum vitae / 履歴書
MOTOHIDE SAJI / 佐治 幹英
01.01.2024- / 2024年1月1日以降
Special lectures for officials in the Myanmar Ministry of Border Affairs (March 2024 via Zoom)
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-12.31.2023 / 2023年12月31日まで
Employment / 職歴
▸ 国際大学国際関係学研究科教授 2018年4月-2023年12月 /
Professor, April 2018-December 2023. International University of Japan, Graduate School of International Relations.
▸ 国際大学国際関係学研究科准教授 2010年1月-2018年3月 /
Associate Professor, January 2010-March 2018. International University of Japan, Graduate School of International Relations.
▸ 国際大学国際関係学研究科助教授/講師 2006年9月-2009年12月 /
Assistant Professor, September 2006-December 2009. International University of Japan, Graduate School of International Relations.
▸ 国際大学国際関係学研究科国際関係学プログラムディレクター 2020年9月-2023年9月; 2015年9月-2016年5月 /
Program Director, September 2020-September 2023 and September 2015-May 2016. International Relations Program, Graduate School of International Relations, International University of Japan.
Education / 学歴
政治学博士、シカゴ大学 (米国)、2006年12月
Ph.D. in Political Science, The University of Chicago, December 2006.
Advisors: Patchen Markell (Chair), Charles Larmore, and Michael Forster
Publications / 出版論文
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
▸ "Kant on the experience of passivity." World Journal of Social Science Research 2, no. 2 (December 2015): 200-226
https://dx.doi.org/10.22158/wjssr.v2n2p200
▸ "On the division between reason and unreason in Kant." Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences 32, no. 2 (June 2009): 201-223
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10746-009-9119-z
▸ "Three aspects of the self-opacity of the empirical subject in Kant." Philosophy & Social Criticism 35, no. 3 (March 2009): 315-337
https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453708100233
▸ "On tensions in Kant’s account of reason in politics." Textual Practice 20, no. 4 (December 2006): 679-702
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502360601058961
Refereed Book Chapters
▸ "To experience differently: on one strand of Kant's anthropology." Massimo Canevacci (ed.) Polyphonic Anthropology (InTech, 2012), pp. 57-80.
▸ "On an East Asian community, or Kant's cosmopolitan right reconsidered." Nam-kook Kim (ed.) Globalization and Regional Integration in Europe and Asia (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 123-142.
Teaching
The language of instruction: English
MA courses:
▸ Human Rights and Global Justice
▸ Political Theory
▸ Global Civil Society
▸ Social Issues in Contemporary Japan
▸ Advanced seminar I, II, and III
PhD course:
▸ Advanced Study in Human Rights and Global Justice
Countries of origin of students:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bhutan, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, China (PRC), Congo DRC, Côte d'Ivoire, Czek Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea (ROK), Kyrgyz, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine (Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority), Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, San Tome and Principe, Senegal, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Syria, Tadzykistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-leste, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, UK, USA, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Zambia.
Other activities:
▸ Special lecture for officials in the Myanmar Ministry of Border Affairs (January, June, July, November, and December 2023 via Zoom; January, February, June, July, and December 2022 via Zoom; February, June, and July 2021 via Zoom; February 2020 in Yangon; February, July, and November 2019 in Yangon; July and November 2018 in Yangon; July and November 2017 in Yangon)
▸ Special lecture for officials in the General Administration Department, the Myanmar Ministry of Home Affairs (January 2022 via Zoom; June, July, and December 2021 via Zoom)
▸ Special lecture for officials in the Myanmar Ministry of Union Government Office (February 2021 via Zoom)
▸ Special lecture for students from Meiji University and Rikkyo University in the English Program on International Cooperation (September 2013 and 2012)
Conferences
▸ Invited Paper presentation at the Democracy in Global Politics conference at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (December 2015).
▸ Invited Paper presentation at the War and Peace in the Era of Globalization: Experiences from Europe and Asia conference, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea (June 2007).
▸ Paper presentation at the Thinking the Present conference at University of California, Berkeley (May 2005).
Grants
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research / Granting Agency: Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology / Research Title: Toward Cosmopolitanism in the Contemporary World: A Kantian View / Grant Number: 20730107 / Research Leader: Motohide Saji (solo) / Grant Period: FY 2008-2009 / Grant Amount for FY 2008: ¥910,000 (direct and indirect costs included); the same for FY 2009; Research Details and Results: https://nrid.nii.ac.jp/en/nrid/1000050445897/
Links
▸ https://www.instagram.com/saji_motohide/
Blog
▸ https://journal-in-brackets.blogspot.com
▸ https://twitter.com/sajimotohide
佐治宣英 Norihide Saji (my brother):
▸ https://twitter.com/sajinorihide
▸ http://www.flowerflower-net.jp/
▸ http://diary.sajinorihide.net/
abstract of some of the published articles / 出版論文概要
▸ "Kant on the experience of passivity." World Journal of Social Science Research 2, no. 2 (December 2015): 200-226
Abstract
This article reconstructs Kant's thought on early human development and its effect throughout one's life in his empirical, anthropological work. To do so, I examine Kant's treatment of three aspects of the early human development chronologically. Kant's argument concerns processes that one goes through before becoming an adult, which take place beyond one's control, which form the basis for one's adult self, and which affect one throughout one's life. One's experience of these three aspects can be called the experience of passivity. First, while an infant, one is subject to the drive and inability to coordinate and control one's bodily motion, to the drive to communicate, and to the activity of imitation. Second, one is compelled to begin reasoning rather than actively beginning the exercise of reason. The initial activity of reason suddenly has already taken place in one beyond one's control in such a way that one cannot choose whether to begin to exercise the faculty of reason in the first place. Third, one is affected by otherness in the formation and development of one's self. Kant's thought thus reconstructed proves to be consistent with what recent empirical research demonstrates. The present analysis ends with questions and implications for social science research.
Keywords: the early human developmental process; reason; the self; memory
▸ "On the division between reason and unreason in Kant." Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences 32, no. 2 (June 2009): 201-223
Abstract
This article examines Kant’s discussion of the division between reason and unreason in his Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. On the one hand, Kant says that there is a normative, clear, and definite division between reason and unreason. On the other hand, Kant offers three arguments showing that we cannot draw such a division. First, we cannot explain the normative grounds for the division. Second, both reason and unreason are present in everyone to varying degrees in different ways. Third, Kant invalidates the division as such by characterizing what should be more incomprehensible than an extreme case of unreason as also being a rational way of life.
Keywords: Kant; reason; rule-following; unreason
▸ "Three aspects of the self-opacity of the empirical subject in Kant." Philosophy & Social Criticism 35, no. 3 (March 2009): 315-337
Abstract
This article attempts to reconstruct Kant's view on the self-opacity of the empirical subject by exploring three aspects of his work: the unconscious, moral incentives and moral genealogy, and rule-following practice. `Self-opacity' means that one is unable to give an account of one's everyday activity, of why in one's everyday life one thinks and acts in the way one does. Kant's view thus recast gives us a sobering insight into our ordinary way of life. The insight is that we are confronted with such self-opacity concerning that area of our activity to which the aforesaid three things apply. That is, a large part of our everyday activity is at bottom opaque to ourselves. This reading of Kant has two implications. First, it enriches our interpretation of Kant. Second, the aforesaid sobering insight is potentially an encouraging message because it may help us cultivate our self-understanding for our everyday life.
Keywords: Immanuel Kant; moral genealogy; reason; rule-following practice; self-opacity; the unconscious
▸ "On tensions in Kant’s account of reason in politics." Textual Practice 20, no. 4 (December 2006): 679-702
Abstract
This essay examines tensions in Kant's attempt to vindicate reason's authority in politics through critique. Such an attempt amounts to a vindication of a democratic state. But in this attempt Kant is confronted with an impasse that reason negates itself from within by its own principle. Reason as a coherent-and-normative-account-giving activity cannot give such an account of itself. Similarly, the grounding of the democratic state is self-undermining. If this impasse does not surface, this is because reason rests secretly on something external to itself. In particular, it must rest on something that prevents reason's self-destruction, without which reason cannot start its own operation, but which reason cannot justify in its own right. This is something that lives at the foundations of the democratic state but which cannot be justified by it. Kant reminds us that we live with these tensions.
Keywords: Kant; reason; critique; democratic state; original contract; diabolical evil; abyss