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By Keiji Nishitani

ISBN-10: 0520043294

ISBN-13: 9780520043299

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In Religion and Nothingness the best consultant of the Kyoto tuition of Philosophy lays the basis of idea for an international within the making, for an international united past the diversities of East and West. Keiji Nishitani notes the irreversible pattern of Western civilization to nihilism, and singles out the conquest of nihilism as the job for modern philosophy. Nihility, or relative nothingness, can merely be triumph over by way of being radicalized to vacancy, or absolute nothingness. Taking absolute nothingness because the primary thought in rational factors of the jap event of human lifestyles, Professor Nishitani examines the relevance of this idea for modern lifestyles, and particularly for Western philosophical theories and non secular believes. far and wide his simple goal continues to be a similar: to direct our smooth hindrance to a answer via this insight.

The problem that the idea of Keiji Nishitani provides to the West, as a latest model of an japanese speculative culture that's each piece as previous and as variegated as our personal, is person who brings into team spirit the primary of fact and the main of salvation. within the technique, one conventional Western suggestion after one other comes below scrutiny: the dichotomy of religion and cause, of being and substance, the non-public and transcendent notions of God, the exaggerated position given to the realizing ego, or even the Judeo-Christian view of heritage itself.

Religion and Nothingness represents the foremost paintings of 1 of Japan's strongest and devoted philosophical minds.

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Nishitani, ed. t"f: Philosophy in Contemporary Japan] (Kyoto: Yukonsha, 1 967), pp. 2 - 4. 1 5 . Comparatively speaking, the German philosophical scene is better informed on these matters than its counterpan in the English-speaking world. Of Nishida's translated works we have already referred to Schinzinger's translation of three essays (originally appearing in German under the title Die intelligibele Welt) and A Study ofGo Viglielmo's translation of Nishida's first and seminal work. In addition we may mention the following: Fundamental Problems of Philosophy.

It is nothing less than a conversion from the self-centered (or man-centered) mode of being, which always asks what use things have for us (o r for man), to an attitude that asks for whatpurpose we ourselves 5 WHAT IS REUGION ? (or man) exist. Only when we stand at this turning point does the question "What is religion? " really become our own. II Being the multi-faceted reality that it is, religion can be approached from any number of different angles . It is commonly defined as the relationship of man to an absolute, like God.

FU: liI: Reli­ gious Consciousness in Japan], in Kiyoko Takeda, ed. , Shiso no hoho to taisho (Tokyo: Sobu nsha, 1 963), p. 254. 1 1 . D. T . Suzuki , "How to Read Nishida, " in K. Nishida, A Study of Go p . iii. 1 2 . In regard to these and related questions, readers of Japanese may find it wonhwhile to consult the proceedings of a symposium that gathered the principal contemporary representatives of the Kyoto School together with Buddhist and Christ­ ian scholars to discuss the theme "Christianity and the Kyoto School of Philosophy .

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