ABSTRACT
Nishida Kitarō (1870-1945), generally known as the founder of the philosophical movement called the Kyoto School, suggests a philosophical non-dualism he framed with a consistency rarely rivaled. From his first book-length work, Inquiry into the Good (Zen no kenkyū, in Nishida, 1988 (hereafter NKZ), 1, 1-199) to his last completed work, “The logic of Basho and the religious world view” (“Bashoteki ronri to shūkyōteki sekaikan,” NKZ 11, 371-464), Nishida labored to find a non-dual paradigm and to build on it a philosophical system that responds to the fundamental metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, and soteriological questions. The philosophy of Nishida Kitarō thus constitutes a wonderful example of how a non-dualist ethics can be conceived and what it can contribute to the contemporary ethical discourse.
