 It is not, therefore, necessarily ethnocentric for Japanese thinkers to suggest the potential efficacy of introducing into a global philosophical dialogue ideas that derive from Japanese or Eastern traditions. The “Japanese philosophy” of the Kyoto School is best understood as a contribution to such an intercultural conversation, and not merely as a reactive opposition to philosophical Eurocentrism. In any case, we must be careful in how we understand the noun “philosophy” and the modifier “Japanese” when we speak of “Japanese philosophy.”