Researcher basic information

• Ph.D., The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Oct. 2014
• Master's degree, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Mar. 2006
• Bachelor's degree, The University of Tokyo, College of Arts and Sciences, Mar. 2004

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• 201501008104270090

• カント
• 社会思想史
• 政治思想史
• 社会契約論
• 18世紀

• Humanities & Social Sciences, History of thought

• Master's degree program, Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies
• Doctoral (PhD) degree program, Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies

Research activity information

• Sep. 2018, The University of Tokyo, University of Tokyo Academic Publication Grant
  Immanuel Kant, Ethics and Politics: Way of Thinking, Civil Society and Republic
  Takuya Saito
• Nov. 2015, The Society for the History of Social Thought, Young Scholar Prize
  Paradox of Democracy and the Concept of Republic in the Political Thought of Immanuel Kant
  Takuya Saito, 受賞論文「民主政のパラドクスとカントの共和制概念」、『社会思想史研究』第39号、2015年、92-110頁。
• May 2010, The Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought, Young Scholar Prize
  Kants Konzeption der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft als Lösung des Problem des Bösen
  Takuya Saito, 受賞論文「『悪』の問題の解決策としてのカントの『市民社会』」、『政治思想研究』第10号、2010年、303-334頁。, Japan society

• Between Cosmopolitanism and Patriotism: Kant’s Concept of Patriotic Government
  Takuya Saito
  History of European Ideas, 1, 21, Informa UK Limited, 05 Nov. 2025, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, You can download the article for free using the link below:
  https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PD3BVSI7GFXJEKRZG4UW/full?target=10.1080/01916599.2025.2581483, 33630193
• Universality and Partisanship: the Concept of "Way of Thinking" in Kant's Political Philosophy
  Takuya Saito
  Japanese Kant Studies, 22, 53, 65, Jul. 2021, [Invited]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Kant on Cosmopolitan Right between the "Universal" and "Particular": Republic, Cosmopolitanism, and Patriotism
  Takuya Saito
  State of Community 2016 Report (Dhillon Marty Foundation), 52, 64, Sep. 2017, [Invited]
  English, International conference proceedings
• The Conception of Wisdom in the Political Thought of Immanuel Kant
  Takuya Saito
  Reason and Will in Political Thought (The Japanese Journal of Political Thought No. 16), 16, 144, 175, 政治思想学会, May 2016, [Peer-reviewed]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Paradox of Democracy and the Concept of Republic in the Political Thought of Immanuel Kant
  Takuya Saito
  Annals of the Society for the History of Social Thought, 39, 92, 110, 藤原書店, Sep. 2015, [Peer-reviewed]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Was ist der Naturzustand für Kant? Die Elemente und Ursprünge des Begriffs bei Kant
  Takuya Saito
  European Studies, 13, 15, 27, Jan. 2014, [Peer-reviewed]
  Scientific journal
• The Problem of ”Government” in the Social Thought of Immanuel Kant: Or the Acquisition and Praxis of Patriotic "Way of Thinking"
  Takuya Saito
  Annals of the Society for the History of Social Thought, 36, 50, 67, 藤原書店, Sep. 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
  Japanese
• Die andere „bürgerliche Gesellschaft“ bei Kant: das Problem des moralischen Bösen und die Strategie der Aufklärung
  Takuya Saito
  Working Paper for JSPS-DFG Japanese-German Graduate Externship, 9, 1, 20, Aug. 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
  German, Research institution
• Kants Konzeption der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft als Lösung des Problem des Bösen
  Takuya Saito
  The Japanese Journal of Political Thought, 10, 303, 334, 風行社, May 2010, [Peer-reviewed]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Politics and Enlightenment in Immanuel Kant
  Takuya Saito
  Komaba Studies in Society, 16, 35, 49, Mar. 2007, [Peer-reviewed]
  Japanese, Scientific journal

• Immanuel Kant, Ethics and Politics - Way of Thinking, Civil Society and Republic: The author-meets-critics-session's note
  Takuya Saito; Sosuke Amitani; Kazutaka Inamura; Hae Kim, Media and Communication Studies, 74, 73, 59, 83, Mar. 2021, [Peer-reviewed]
  Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University, Japanese, Book review
• Enlightenment and the idea of perpetual peace: Kant
  Takuya Saito, Dictionary of German Culture, 582, 583, Oct. 2020, [Invited]
  Japanese
• Reading Guide: Avishai Margalit, The Decent Society, Harvard University Press, 1996.
  Takuya Saito, Yasushi Kato/ Tsuyoshi Kojima, Dignity and Society (Vol. 2), Hosei University Press, 127, 132, Mar. 2020, [Invited]
  Japanese, Book review
• Comments on Sosuke Amitani, The Idea of Republic (Hosei University Press, 2018)
  Takuya Saito, Research Report of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) Towards a global standard of dignity as a philosophical concept: theoretical approaches, conceptual histories, and cross-cultural comparisons (18H05218), 147, 152, Mar. 2019, [Invited]
  Japanese, Book review
• Book Review: Kim Hae, Kant's Political Philosophy (Keiso Shobo, 2017)
  Takuya Saito, Annals of the Society for the History of Social Thought, 42, 140, 143, 2018, [Invited]
  Japanese, Book review

• Kant’s Early Followers in Political Philosophy
  Reidar Maliks; Elisabeth Theresia Widmer, Government or Citizens? Kant and Johann Adam Bergk on Constitutional Patriotism
  Routledge, Jun. 2025, 9781032851907, 256, 136-157, English, Scholarly book, This chapter aims to bring to the fore the concepts of republican patriotism in Kant and his radical follower Johann Adam Bergk in late eighteenth-century Germany, a time of political upheaval and the rise of Enlightenment ideals, delving into their starkly contrasting perspectives. In Theory and Practice (1793) and the Metaphysics of Morals (1797), Kant established the idea of “constitutional patriotism,” arguing that patriotism is possible only under the republican constitution with separation of powers and representation. Notably, he claimed that it is the government, not the subjects, that should demonstrate patriotism. To achieve this, an existing autocratic government must initiate the reforms towards a republican constitution. Bergk, in his Untersuchungen aus dem Natur-, Staats- und Völkerrechte (1796), inherited Kant's idea of constitutional patriotism. However, unlike Kant, he developed the idea of fostering civic patriotism from a perfectionist standpoint rather than establishing a patriotic government. He, therefore, provided a theory of systematically promoting civic patriotism through national education, freedom of the press, and public festivities. For Bergk, the patriotism of citizens is crucial for promoting perfection through self-activity., 33630193, [Peer-reviewed], [Contributor]
• カント政治哲学のコンテクスト
  加藤泰史(監訳), 第３章 政治的権利
  ライダール・マリクス, 知泉書館, Mar. 2024, 9784862854056, xiv, 349p, Japanese, Scholarly book, [Joint translation]
• Kant's concept of dignity
  Takuya Saito, Kant on patriotism: ‘civic dignity’ and ‘way of thinking’
  De Gruyter, 2020, 9783110661200, x, 330 p., 303-324, English, Scholarly book, In this paper I will examine Kant’s patriotism from the perspective of ‘way of thinking’ (Denkungsart) as its background theory. Kant’s patriotism provides the practical reasoning to develop the idea of a republican constitution, which protects the rights of man through legislation of the common will in the form of representative democracy. His line of argument leads him to criticize despotism and the hereditary order (‘dignity of the nobility’) for betraying the principles of civil freedom and civil equality (‘dignity of a citizen’). Despotic rulers should take up this form of patriotism by promoting the idea of the ‘original contract’ and reforming government. Kant’s analysis of the enthusiasm and sympathy for the French Revolution shows that this republic-oriented patriotism is possible even under a despotic regime, because it is not a mere attachment to a positive order, but based on ‘way of thinking.’, 33630194, [Contributor]
• Kant, Ethics and Politics: Way of Thinking, Civil Society, and Republic
  Takuya Saito
  Kōyō Shōbō, Jul. 2019, 9784771032286, 333 + 23, Japanese, Scholarly book, UTokyo BiblioPlaza:
  https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/biblioplaza/en/A_00150.html, [Single work]

• 18世紀末のドイツにおけるパトリオティズム論の2類型（カントとヨハン・アダム・ベルク）――ラインハルト・コゼレックの所論を手がかりとして
  斎藤拓也
  カント法・政治哲学ネットワーク第2回研究会, 04 Oct. 2025, カント法・政治哲学ネットワーク, Japanese
  慶應義塾大学三田キャンパス東館5階会議室（ハイブリッド）, Japan, [Invited]
• Enlightenment and Patriotism in Late Eighteenth-Century Prussia
  Takuya Saito
  International Colloquium: The Enlightenment in the Global World: Morality, History and Political Economy, 26 Jul. 2025, The Keio Economic Society, the East Asian Intellectual History Network and the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen, English, Invited oral presentation
  25 Jul. 2025 - 26 Jul. 2025, Mita Campus, Keio University, Japan, Japan, [Invited], [International presentation]
• How to simulate political representation in an absolute monarchy? ‘Freedom of speech’ and ‘publicity’ in Towards Perpetual Peace
  Takuya Saito
  The 14th International Kant Congress, 13 Sep. 2024, English, Oral presentation
  08 Sep. 2024 - 13 Sep. 2024, 33630193
• Immanuel Kant on Republicanism, Patriotism, and Cosmopolitanism
  Takuya Saito
  1st EAIHN Online Seminar 2024, 26 Jun. 2024, English, Invited oral presentation
  26 Jun. 2024 - 26 Jun. 2024, 33630193, [Invited]
• Kant and Ernst Ferdinand Klein on Political Legitimacy
  Takuya Saito
  2nd Kantian Foundations of Democracy Conference: Progressivism and Conservatism in Kantian Political Thought, 01 Sep. 2023, English, Oral presentation
  31 Aug. 2023 - 01 Sep. 2023, 33630193
• How to Govern in Accordance with the Idea of Reason: Kant’s Second Thoughts on Patriotic Government in his Published Writings
  Takuya Saito
  Kant on the Ideas of Reason: Meeting of the Italian Kant Society, 18 Nov. 2022, English, Oral presentation
  18 Nov. 2022 - 19 Nov. 2022, 33630193
• Regierung oder Nation? Republikanischer Patriotismus bei Kant und Johann Adam Bergk
  Takuya Saito
  Kolloquium „Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte“, 01 Nov. 2022, German, Invited oral presentation
  01 Nov. 2022 - 01 Nov. 2022, 33630193, [Invited]
• Kant and Johann Adam Bergk on Patriotism
  Takuya Saito
  Kantian Foundations of Democracy, 06 Aug. 2022, English, Invited oral presentation
  05 Aug. 2022 - 06 Aug. 2022, 33630193, [Invited]
• Respect for Free Legislative Will as a Condition for Patriotism in Kant's Political Philosophy
  Takuya Saito
  The 9th Osaka Philosophy Seminar, 15 Jan. 2021, Osaka Philosophy Seminar, Japanese, Nominated symposium
  Online Conference, Japan, [Invited], [Domestic Conference]
• Universality and Partisanship: Patriotism in Kant's Political Philosophy
  Takuya Saito
  The 45th Annual Conference of Japanese Kant Society (Joint Discussion 1), 14 Nov. 2020, The Japanese Kant Society, Japanese, Invited oral presentation
  Online Conference, [Invited], [Domestic Conference]
• Kant on state of nature
  Takuya Saito
  The 13th international Kant Congress, 05 Aug. 2019, The Norwegian Kant Society, English, Oral presentation
  University of Oslo, Norway, [International presentation]
• Kant’s Cosmopolitanism between Westphalian and Liberal World Order? Tomonaga Sanjuro’s first systematic Interpretation of Kant’s political thought in Japan
  Takuya Saito
  2018 International Conference “Reconsidering the Universal and the Particular in East Asia”, 08 Aug. 2018, Takuya Saito, English, Invited oral presentation
  Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University, Japan, [International presentation]
• Kants Patriotismus als Denkungsart
  Takuya Saito
  Kolloquium „Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte“, 22 May 2018, Prof. Dr. Harald Bluhm, German, Invited oral presentation
  Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Halle/Germany), [Invited], [International presentation]
• The Universal and the Particular in the Reception of Kant's Political Thought in Modern Japan
  Takuya Saito
  Rethinking Universalism and Global Citizenship from East Asia, 06 Dec. 2017, Professor Hang Kim, English, Invited oral presentation
  Conference Room of Institution of Korean Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, [Invited], [International presentation]
• Kant's Patriotism Reconsidered: Dignity and "Way of Thinking"
  Takuya Saito
  International Workshop: Kant's Concept of Dignity, 23 Jul. 2017, The Kakenhi-Project (No.25770027), the TOYOTA-Foundation-Project to „Würde alter Menschen“ (D14-R-0798) and the Japanese-German Association of Applied Ethics (Principal Investigator: Professor Yasushi Kato), English, Invited oral presentation
  The Hitotsubashi University, [Invited], [International presentation]
• Kant on Justice: Dynamics of Political Development
  Takuya Saito
  The 14th Japan-Korea International Joint Conference for the Study of Political Thought "Justice Reconsidered", 25 Jun. 2017, The Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought, English, Invited oral presentation
  Rikkyo University, Japan, [Invited], [International presentation]
• Kant on Cosmopolitan Right between the "Universal" and the "Particular": Republic, Cosmopolitanism, and Patriotism
  Takuya Saito
  State of the Community 2016 "Citizens, Communities, and Multilayered Identities", 21 Nov. 2016, Dhillon Marty Foundation, English, Nominated symposium
  The UNESCO Heritage Center, Paris, France, [Invited], [International presentation]
• Kant and the Patriotism in German-speaking countries in the Late 18th Century
  Takuya Saito
  The 41st Research Conference of the Society for the History of Social Thought, 30 Oct. 2016, The Society for the History of Social Thought, Japanese, Oral presentation
  Chuo University, Japan, [Domestic Conference]
• The Paradox of Democracy and Kant's Idea of Republic
  Takuya Saito
  The 39th Research Conference of the Society for the History of Social Thought, 25 Oct. 2014, The Society for the History of Social Thought, Japanese, Oral presentation
  Meiji University (Surugadai Campus), [Domestic Conference]
• Two Concepts of Commonwealth in the Political Thought of Immanuel Kant
  Takuya Saito
  Workshop: “Universal Values in a Post-secular Era – the Case of China and Japan”, 25 Sep. 2014, The University of Tokyo IHS Programm (Project 2), English, Oral presentation
  The University of Tokyo (Komaba I Campus), Japan, [International presentation]
• Kant's Social Contract Theory and Rawls
  Takuya Saito
  The 18th Research Convention of the Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought, 28 May 2011, The Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought, Japanese, Invited oral presentation
  Himeji Dokkyo University, Japan, [Invited], [Domestic Conference]
• The Political Meaning of Kant’s Concept of Enlightenment
  Takuya Saito
  International Symposium on Attempts to Construct a "Philosophy of Coexistence" in Eastern and Western Philosophical Traditions, 29 Mar. 2009, Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University, English, Oral presentation
  Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, Province of China, [International presentation]
• Der Republikanismus Kants
  Takuya Saito
  Kolloquium im Internationalen Graduiertenkolleg von Deutscher Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) „Formwandel der Bürgergesellschaft. Japan und Deutschland im Vergleich“ (Projekt Nr. 1456), 17 Jul. 2008, Internationales Graduiertenkolleg von Deutscher Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) „Formwandel der Bürgergesellschaft. Japan und Deutschland im Vergleich“ (Projekt Nr. 1456), German
  Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Halle/Germany), Germany, [International presentation]
• Welche Bedeutung kann der Republikanismus Kants in der politischen Theorie haben?
  Takuya Saito
  Die 3. Internationale Doktorandenkonferenz der vom DAAD geförderten Zentren für Deutschland- und Europastudien, 02 Jul. 2008, CIERA(Centre interdisciplinaire d’études et de recherches sur l’Allemagne), German, Oral presentation
  CIERA, Paris, France, [International presentation]
• The Role of the History of Philosophy by Kant
  Takuya Saito
  Kolloquium im Internationalen Graduiertenkolleg von Deutscher Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) „Formwandel der Bürgergesellschaft. Japan und Deutschland im Vergleich“ (Projekt Nr. 1456), 09 Oct. 2007, Internationales Graduiertenkolleg von Deutscher Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) „Formwandel der Bürgergesellschaft. Japan und Deutschland im Vergleich“ (Projekt Nr. 1456), English
  Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Halle/Germany), Germany, [International presentation]

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• Nov. 2022 - Present
  La Società Italiana di Studi Kantiani (Italian Kant Society)
• JAPANISCHE KANT-GESELLSCHAFT
• THE JAPANESE CONFERENCE FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
• THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL THOUGHTS
• The Philosophical Association of Japan

• Can the "will of the people" be formed? Kant's Idea of Public Will
  02 Nov. 2017 - 02 Nov. 2017
  Lecturer
  Hokkaido University, Research Faculty of Media and Communication
  Can the will of the people be wrong? The Idea of Democracy in the History of Thought (4)
• Kant's Political Thought in "For the Perpetual Peace" (1795)
  26 Oct. 2017 - 26 Oct. 2017
  Lecturer
  Hokkaido University, Research Faculty of Media and Communication
  Can the will of the people be wrong? The Idea of Democracy in the History of Thought (3)

• Sep. 2024
  Excellent teachers in class questionnaires for university-wide education courses (Academic Year 2023, Summer Semester)
  The Institute for the Advancement of Higher Education (Hokkaido University) selects the 31 teachers with the highest overall scores in the class survey results for all university education courses as "Excellent Teachers in the Class Survey for All University Education Courses" according to the selection criteria and publishes their names and other information on the university website.(https://www.high.hokudai.ac.jp/class-questionnaire/)
• Aug. 2021
  Excellent teachers in class questionnaires for university-wide education courses (Academic Year 2020, Summer Semester)
  The Institute for the Advancement of Higher Education (Hokkaido University) selects the 32 teachers with the highest overall scores in the class survey results for all university education courses as "Excellent Teachers in the Class Survey for All University Education Courses" according to the selection criteria and publishes their names and other information on the university website.(https://www.high.hokudai.ac.jp/class-questionnaire/)
• Jul. 2017
  Excellent teachers in class questionnaires for university-wide education courses (Academic Year 2016, Winter Semester)
  The Institute for the Advancement of Higher Education (Hokkaido University) selects the 31 teachers with the highest overall scores in the class survey results for all university education courses as "Excellent Teachers in the Class Survey for All University Education Courses" according to the selection criteria and publishes their names and other information on the university website.(https://www.high.hokudai.ac.jp/class-questionnaire/)