Nishida and Western Philosophy
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780754693253
Subjects: Kitaro Nishida
Description: 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.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Cover; Contents; Contents; Preliminary Notes; Preliminary Notes; Introduction; Introduction; 1 Nishida's Starting Point; 1 Nishida's Starting Point; 2 Radical Empiricism and Pure Experience; 2 Radical Empiricism and Pure Experience; 3 Fichte, the Neo-Kantians and Bergson; 3 Fichte, the Neo-Kantians and Bergson; 4 Nishida's Later Philosophy: The Logic of Place and Self-Contradictory Identity; 4 Nishida's Later Philosophy: The Logic of Place and Self-Contradictory Identity; Summary and Conclusions; Summary and Conclusions; Bibliography; Bibliography; Index; Index.