Nishida Kitarōs Philosophy of Absolute Nothingness and Modern Theoretical Physics

Philosophy East and West 68 (2):423-446 (2018)
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Nishida Kitarō1, the founder of the Kyoto school of philosophy, often stated that his philosophy of Absolute Nothingness, which had in part been inspired by Zen Buddhism, was not a kind of mysticism. In his last unfinished essay, Watakushi no ronri ni tsuite he complained that his logic of absolutely contradictory self-identity had not been understood by the academic world, and its meaning had been distorted. Nishida decided that the only way of clarifying his philosophical standpoint was to redefine the concepts of 'mind' and 'logic' by showing the relation of the philosophy of Absolute Nothingness to the...

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10.1353/pew.2018.0039

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Nishida Kitarō.John Maraldo - forthcoming - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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