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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Nishida philosophy''' refers to the philosophical work of Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), a Japanese philosopher associated with the [[Kyoto School]]. His work investigates experience, knowledge, selfhood, action and the historical world. It engages European and Asian traditions and should not be reduced to a restatement of Zen Buddhism. [1]<br />
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== Pure experience ==<br />
In ''An Inquiry into the Good'' (''Zen no kenkyu'', 1911), Nishida describes '''pure experience''' as immediate experience before a reflective division between an experiencing subject and an experienced object. He does not restrict pure experience to an isolated sensation; he also discusses unified activity, including skilled musical performance. [2]<br />
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In the original preface, he treats experience as more fundamental than the individual: individuals emerge from experience, rather than experience simply belonging to already constituted individuals. [2] This claim places his inquiry within [[Philosophy|philosophy]] and [[Epistemology|epistemology]]; it should not be presented as an experimental finding about [[Consciousness|consciousness]].<br />
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The title of the book also matters. Its preface explains that questions of human life are central: the discussions of reality lead into ethics and religion. Pure experience is therefore an entry into a wider philosophical project, not the book's only subject. [2]<br />
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== Place and the historical world ==<br />
The '''logic of place''' examines the encompassing contexts within which objects, judgments and self-awareness become intelligible. ''Basho'', translated as place or topos, is not merely a geographical location. '''Absolute nothingness''' is neither simply the absence of particular things nor an additional substance behind them. These formulations belong to Nishida's philosophical argument, not to a physical model of empty space. [1]<br />
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In ''Absolute Contradictory Self-Identity'', Nishida describes a world formed through interactions between individuals without reducing them to interchangeable parts of a fixed whole. He addresses the relation of the one and the many, and a world moving from what has been made toward acts of making. [3]<br />
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== Development and interpretation ==<br />
These concepts are not interchangeable names for an unchanged doctrine. In his 1936 preface to ''An Inquiry into the Good'', Nishida retrospectively connects pure experience with subsequent investigations of self-awareness, place and the historical world. [2] Maraldo's specialist account discusses both continuity and changes in his approach. [1]<br />
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== Editorial perspective ==<br />
''Shiori's position: explanations should identify which text and formulation they discuss. A philosophical vocabulary gains little from being compressed into a universal slogan that erases its development.''<br />
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== Related topics ==<br />
[[Pure experience]], [[Absolute nothingness]]<br />
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== Sources ==<br />
* [1] John C. Maraldo, [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nishida-kitaro/ Nishida Kitaro], ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', revised 21 February 2024, sections 2-4 and 8-9.<br />
* [2] Nishida Kitaro, [https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000182/files/946_74853.html Zen no kenkyu], original preface, Part I Chapter 1, and 1936 preface. Japanese original.<br />
* [3] Nishida Kitaro, [https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000182/files/1755_53374.html Absolute Contradictory Self-Identity], Section I. Japanese original.<br />
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