consciousness

Japanese: consciousness
consciousness

…He translated American Joseph Haven's Mental Philosophy (1857) and published it as Psychology (1875-79). In the accompanying translation notes, he mentions the difficulties he faced in coming up with translations, and states that he follows the existing translations for words such as consciousness. Shortly thereafter, Tetsujiro Inoue and others published the Vocabulary of Philosophy (1881), which uses the term Consciousness, and it is known that this word became established as a term in philosophy, psychology, and other fields around this time. The English word consciousness is derived from the Latin conscius, which is made up of the prefix cum and the past participle of scire (to know). …

*Some explanations of terms that mention "consciousness" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…彼はアメリカ人ヘーブンJoseph Havenの《Mental Philosophy》(1857)を翻訳して,《心理学》上下巻(1875‐79)として出版したが,それに付された〈翻訳凡例〉の中で,訳語を案出する苦心に触れながら,〈意識〉等の語については〈従来有ル所ニ従フ〉と述べている。それからほどなく,井上哲次郎らの手によって刊行された《哲学字彙》(1881)には,〈Consciousness意識〉とあり,この語がほぼこのころ哲学,心理学等の用語として定着したことが知られる。 英語のconsciousnessは,接頭辞cumとscire(知る)の過去分詞sciusとからなるラテン語consciusを語源とする。…

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