Bernard Ryosuke Inagaki


Bernard Ryosuke Inagaki was a Japanese philosopher and Thomas Aquinas scholar. He wrote extensively on medieval philosophy, scholastic philosophy, and philosophy of law. He is known for leading the Japanese translation of Aquinas' Summa Theologiæ.

Biography

Inagaki graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1951 and finished his PhD in philosophy at the Catholic University of America in 1955. After teaching philosophy at Nanzan University, Kyushu University, and Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University, he became a professor of humanities at the Nagasaki Junshin Catholic University. He claimed that his work had been greatly influenced by the study of Aquinas in Étienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain. He died from stomach cancer on 15 January 2022, at the age of 93.

''Summa Theologiæ translation''

The translation of the Summa Theologiæ earned Inagaki, and his team, the 2013 Mainichi Publishing Culture Award and the 2014.

Works

Books in Japanese Philosophy of Common Good in Thomas Aquinas: Persona and Society An Investigation of Philosophy in Thomas Aquinas Modern Catholic Thought A Theory of Legal Justice Philosophy of Peace Faith and Reason
  • The Volume 20 of the Intellectual Heritage of the Humanity: Thomas Aquinas
  • * Reprinted as Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas Man in the Bible Philosophy of Habit The Time for Grace Abstraction and Intuition: A Study of Epistemology in later Middle Ages Thomas Aquinas An Introduction to the Theory of Angels A Study of Ethics in Thomas Aquinas A Study of Theological Language God As A Problem: Experience, Existence and God A Theory of the Foundation of the Human Culture Lectures on Empiricism and Experience Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiæ Philosophy of Persona
Articles & Book Chapters in English
Translations