Tetsugaku Companion to Nishida Kitarō (Tetsugaku Companions to Japanese Philosophy, 4)

Introduction
Overview of Nishida’s Thought: From Pure Experience to Self-Identity of Contradictories
The Chapters of the Book
	Part I
	Part II
Concerning Designation of NKZa and NKZb
A Note on the Texts
Acknowledgments
Contents
Editors and Contributors
Editors
Contributors
Chapter 1: Pure Experience
	1 Introduction
	2 The Core Idea of an Inquiry into the Good
	3 Psychology and Philosophy
	4 Subject-Object Unity
	5 Criticism of Psychology
	6 Language and Experience
	7 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 2: Epistemology of Absolute Free Will: Nishida’s Notion of Self-Determination in Relation to Cohen and Schopenhauer
	1 Introduction
	2 The Epistemological Starting Point in Zen no Kenkyū
	3 Nishida’s Notion of Self-Determination in Relation to Cohen
	5 The Absolute Will
	6 Closing Remarks
	References
Chapter 3: “Self-Awareness”: A Pervasive Concept in Nishida’s Philosophy
	1 Self-Awareness of Experience
		1.1 A Japanese Grasp of Experience as Indicated by its Subjectless Language
		1.2 Self-Awareness As Already Embedded in the Fabric of Experience
	2 The Development of Self-Awareness
		2.1 From Experience to Self-Awareness
		2.2 “Fact-Act” and Will
		2.3 Self-Awareness as “Place”
		2.4 Self-Awareness as it Unfolds from Nothingness
	3 Self-Awareness as it Intercrosses with History
	References
Chapter 4: The Development of the Concept of Basho (Place) in Nishida’s Philosophy
	1 The Path to the Turn
		1.1 Its Origins in the Theory of Pure Experience
		1.2 Self-Awareness and Absolute Free Will
		1.3 Returning to Intuition at the Foundation
	2 The Standpoint of basho
		2.1 The Basho-like Character of Self-Awareness
		2.2 Interpretation of Intuition
		2.3 The Beginning of Logic
	Conculusion
	References
Chapter 5: The Dialectical Universal
	1 Introduction
	2 “The Universal” in An Inquiry into the Good.
	3 “The Universal” in the Essay “Place”
	4 The Absolute Nothingness and “the Dialectical Universal”
		4.1 The Singular Thing and “Our Self”
		4.2 “I and Thou”
		4.3 The World as the Dialectical Universal
	References
Chapter 6: Acting Intuition
	1 The Fundamental Structure of Consciousness in the Self-Aware Self
	2 The Origin of Time in the Syllogistic Universal
	3 The Structure of the Self-Determination of the Eternal Now
	4 Fiedler’s “Pure Visual Sense” and Acting Intuition
	5 The Temporal-Spatial Structure of Acting Intuition as Historical Expressive Formation
	References
Chapter 7: Between the Sea and the World of Historical Reality: Reconsideration for a Philosophy of Multiple-Historicity
	1 Introduction
	2 The “Problematic World” and the Philosophy of Sea
	3 Nishida Philosophy in the Times of War
		3.1 Logos and Strife
		4 Motivations to Philosophize: Wonder, Sorrow, and Fear
		6 Toward a Philosophy of Multiple-Historicity: Our Task in the Anthropocene
	References
Chapter 8: Placing Nishida Within the History of Philosophy
	1 History of Philosophy in Distress
	2 From “Outside” of the History of Philosophy into its “Inside”
	3 The Situation of the History of Philosophy in 1911
	4 Philosophical Development Between 1911 and 1945
	5 From the “Inside” to the “Deep Ground” of the History of Philosophy
	Further Reading
Chapter 9: The Place and Significance of Nishida’s Philosophy in Europe and North America
	1 Introduction: Frames for Presenting Nishida’s Philosophy
		1.1 Frame 1: Japan’s First (Modern) Philosopher
		1.2 Frame 2: A Philosopher of the East
		1.3 Frame 3: A Zen Philosopher
		1.4 Frame 4: Founder of the Kyoto School and Leading Philosopher of Nothingness
		1.5 Frame 5: Nationalist Ideologue?
	2 Concluding Pointer: How Nishida Frames Our Frameworks
	References
Chapter 10: Is Nishida Kitarō an Eastern Philosopher?
	1 Eastern Philosophy
	2 Twofold Structure of Japanese Philosophy
	3 Nishida as a Japanese Philosopher
	References
Chapter 11: Facing the Absolute Inside: Nishida’s Conception of Religion
	1 The Project of this Paper: Untangling Religion from Scholarship and Morality
	2 Nishida’s Methodology: Seeking a Middle-Way Philosophy
		2.1 What Is a Middle-Way Philosophy?
	3 The Prototype of Nishida’s Philosophy
	4 Nishida and his Antecedents
	5 Nishida’s Play Analogy
	6 Nishida’s Typology of Religion: Theism, Pantheism, and “True Religion”
		6.1 Nishida’s Definitions of Religion
		6.2 Nishida’s Ranking of Various Types of Religion
		6.3 Nishida’s Typology of Religion
	7 The Concept of “Religion” in the Latter Nishida: The Absolute as Transcendence-and-Yet-Immanence
		7.1 Re-Thinking Transcendence
		7.2 Nishida’s Use of the Phrase “Soku”
		7.3 Transcendence and/in Everyday Life
	8 Nishida’s Conception of “God” as “Absolute Thou”
		8.1 God as Absolute Thou
		8.2 God’s Self-Negation
	9 The Difficult Problem: How to Understand the Non-Duality of Good and Evil?
		9.1 Good and Evil
		9.2 The Conception of the Demonic
		9.3 What Does it Mean to Be Religious?
	10 Conclusion: Religion in the Face of the Absolute Inside
	References
		Abbrevations
		Other Sources
Chapter 12: Science and Religion in Nishida Philosophy
	1 Science and Religion in An Inquiry into the Good
		1.1 Perfect Truth
		1.2 Correlation Between the Self and World
		1.3 Standard of Truth
		1.4 Intellectual Intuition and Religious Truth
	2 Science and Religion in the Late Philosophy of Nishida
		2.1 Logic of Place (場所的論理 bashoteki ronri) and Absolute Nothingness
		2.2 Set Theory, Inverse Correspondence, and the Logic of Basho
		2.3 The Intersection of Philosophy, Religion, and Science
		2.4 The Logic of Place and Quantum Physics
	3 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 13: Nishida’s Philosophy and Art
	1 Aesthetic Reflection in the Early Nishida
		1.1 Aesthetic Experience as the Self-Realization of Pure Experience
		1.2 Purity of Aesthetic Experience
		1.3 Activeness of Sensation
		1.4 Aesthetic Tradition and Nishida’s Philosophy
	2 Historical Formation and Art
		2.1 The Poietic Nature of History
		2.2 Art as Acting Intuition
			2.2.1 Perspectivity
			2.2.2 Creation of Things
			2.2.3 Activities of Historical Formation
	3 Creative Self-Awareness and Poetry
	References
Chapter 14: Significance and Positioning of Nishida’s Philosophy in the Contemporary World
	1 Philosophical Significance
	2 History and the Dialectical World
	3 Conclusion: Taking Responsibility in the Eternal Present
	References
Chapter 15: Nishida Kitarō and Virtue Ethics: With a Focus on Zen no Kenkyū
	1 Nishida Kitarō and Virtue Ethics: a Hidden Connection
	2 Virtue and Agent-Based Approaches: Confucius, Mencius and Nishida
	3 Knowledge, Feeling and Volition: Xunzi and Nishida
	4 Concluding Remarks
	References
Brief Chronology of Nishida Kitarō
Glossary of Main Concepts
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Index