The semantic vision of the world for Toshihiko Izutsu, a reading on hermeneutical bases

Abstract

The paper questions the judgements of a number of scholars who studied the Japanese thinker and linguist Toshihiko Izutsu, and of Arabs familiar with his achievement, who considered him hermeneutical, after some hasty judgments, and the other judgements issued by adopting them without scrutiny, for this the research tries to answer a basic question: why is his achievement considered hermeneutics?  And what inspires the reader of his achievement at first glance?  In order to prove or deny this description, according to which hermeneutics foundation stages should one read his achievement?  In order to answer this, the paper reads what Izutsu writes in a first reading of its theoretical and methodological foundations in the light of his intellectual background, and then again on the foundations of what the philosophical stage in the history of hermeneutics relied on, represented by its two great scholars Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) and his student Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002). The paper chooses a two-part approach, which is related to the subject of the research paper and its main question. As for the first part, it defines the signifier first from the biography of Izutsu. The second is contrastive and analytical, comparing his achievement to the foundations of philosophical hermeneutics