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Recapitulated his non-dualistic account of world and self, but also

Japanese expansionism in the late 1930s and early 40s. Philosophy of culture, and his status as Japan’s premier philosopher led government officials to call upon him for justification of “ mu” (nothingness), a notion he found particularly prominent in Asian traditions. Words the source itself cannot be described monistically as a single, Qualification: although Nishida proposed a unitary source of suchįorms, that source is neither exclusionary nor positive in other Its investigations of their experiential basis, with one It can also be considered an ontology of logical forms for Phenomenological metaphysics for its universalizing of first-personĮxperience. We might characterize his philosophy in general as a He shared with Husserl’s phenomenology and William James’ radicalĮmpiricism. That Nishida insisted on the starting point of experience, a priority It also differedįrom efforts to establish pure logic as a self-explanatory realm, in The contingencies of the individual mind or brain. Quite opposite to that of psychologism, which would reduce logic to Restore to experience and consciousness the rigor, necessity and May understand his philosophical project overall as an attempt to This article presents Nishida’s work in a roughly chronological order. Selection, interpretation and clarification. Presentation of his achievements therefore will require extensive Managed to refine it” (Nishida 1958, Preface). His work, “I have always been a miner of ore I have never Nishida’s work is also frustrating for its repetitiveĪnd often obscure style, exceedingly abstract formulations, andĭetailed but frequently dead-end investigations. World with rich implications for contemporary Thought it provided a new basis for philosophical treatments of EastĪsian Buddhist thought and it produced novel theories of self and Philosophy as practiced in Europe and the Americas it enriched thatĭiscipline by infusing Anglo-European philosophy with Asian sources of Several respects: it established in Japan the creative discipline of

Nishida Kitarō was the most significant and influential Japanese