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Kyoto School
The Kyoto School is the twentieth-century Japanese movement that brought Buddhist ideas of nothingness into dialogue with Western philosophy.
It formed around Nishida Kitarō at Kyoto Imperial University from the 1910s, and its leading members include Tanabe Hajime and Nishitani Keiji. Nishida developed the ideas of pure experience and a logic of place (basho) grounded in absolute nothingness, and Nishitani wrote on nihilism and emptiness. The political writings of some members during the Second World War remain a subject of debate. On this site it answers questions on consciousness and the hard problem (1.3.4) and on nihilism and how to overcome it.
Guide: Schools of Philosophy: The Main -isms and the Questions They Answer
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Nishitani on nihilism: you have to go through it, not around it
This year I have been reading the Kyoto School slowly. The book that has helped me most this year is Nishitani Keiji's Religion and Nothingness, read slowly in Japanese with the English translation beside it. Nishitani, who studied with Heidegger in Freiburg…
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Nishida’s pure experience dissolves the hard problem rather than solving it
I came to Nishida late, through zazen at a small temple near my house in Kyoto, after a career designing structures. Here is my thesis, stated as sharply as I can. The hard problem assumes a split. On one side, a physical…
Started by Aiko Tanabe6 replies