ABSTRACT
Nishida often characterizes the distinction between being and nothing in terms of the cultural contrast of West and East. Nishida was primarily reacting to mainstream of Western philosophy. The movement away from the object and toward that ultimate contextual place proceeds through a series of implacements. Some of his contemporaries thus criticized him for ignoring the real world of historical events and concrete individuals. The entire dialectic involves a complex chiasma of vertical and horizontal lines of interrelations. In Nishida's philosophical development, we thus witness the turn from interiority to exteriority and a return back to inner dimensions of self. The final picture that Nishida leaves us his concept of the nothing is inseparable from his philosophy of place. Today when worlds are merging into one big mega-world under the phenomenon of globalization, it may do us well to lend an ear to Nishida's non-foundationalist and multi-dimensional anontology that refuses the reificiation or hypostatization of positions, as well as nihilism.
