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Absolute Nothingness
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Bergson's Thought
Bergson’s Thought
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Clock Time
comparative philosophy
conceptual incommensurability in Zen thought
dependent
Dialectical Universal
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ethics and pluralism
experience
Intelligible Universal
James's Radical Empiricism
James’s Radical Empiricism
metaphysics of experience
Neo-Kantianism
Nishida's Philosophy
Nishida's Thought
Nishida's View
nishidas
Nishida’s Philosophy
Nishida’s Thought
Nishida’s View
Object Logic
ontological
Ontological Ultimate
origination
philosophy of religion
PreEstablished Harmony
pure
Pure Duration
Pure Experience
Radical Empiricism
Self-conscious System
Self-contradictory Identity
Source Consciousness
South West German School
Surface Ego
thought
ultimate
Unified Reality
Vice Versa
view
zen
Zen Buddhism
Zen Experience
Zen Master
Zen Thinkers
Product details
- ISBN 9780754657033
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Robert Wilkinson, The Open University in Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.
