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Nishida and Western Philosophy

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Nishida and Western Philosophy book

Nishida and Western Philosophy

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Nishida and Western Philosophy book

ByRobert Wilkinson
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2009
eBook Published 13 May 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315598376
Pages 184 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315598376
SubjectsArea Studies, Humanities
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Wilkinson, R. (2009). Nishida and Western Philosophy. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315598376

Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945) is the most important Japanese philosopher of the last century. His constant aim in philosophy was to try to articulate Zen in terms drawn from Western philosophical sources, yet in the end he found that he could not do so, and his thought illustrates a conceptual incommensurability at the deepest level between the main line of the Western tradition and one of the main lines in Eastern thought. This book is a work of comparative philosophy. Attention is given to the consequences of Nishida's metaphysics in the areas of ethics, aesthetics, the philosophy of religion and notably the implications of Nishida's example for the question of pluralism. This study of Nishida brings into sharp focus the question of whether, faced with a conceptual incommensurability at as deep a level as that manifested by Zen, the choice between it and its Western alternative can be wholly rational.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|26 pages

Nishida’s Starting Point

chapter 2|30 pages

Radical Empiricism and Pure Experience

chapter 3|40 pages

Fichte, the Neo-Kantians and Bergson

chapter 4|50 pages

Nishida’s Later Philosophy: The Logic of Place and Self-Contradictory Identity

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