Tetsuzō Tanikawa

Tetsuzō Tanikawa (谷川 徹三, Tanikawa Tetsuzō; 26 May 1895 – 27 September 1989) was a Japanese philosopher who promoted the concept of World Government for purposes of peace.

Tetsuzō Tanikawa
Born	26 May 1895 Aichi Prefecture
Died	27 September 1989(1989-09-27) (aged 94)
Philosophical work
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Japanese philosophy
Main interests	World Government

Career

Tanikawa studied in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kyoto, where he was one of the students of Kitaro Nishida, the leader of the Kyoto School.^[1][2]

Tanikawa introduced philosophical ideas in Japan through his translations of Georg Simmel and Immanuel Kant. His major philosophical influence was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He questioned how world peace could be realized in the face of nuclear proliferation at the beginning of the Cold War.

He was the father of the poet Shuntarō Tanikawa.