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Nishitani Keiji was the first to introduce, through the task of overcoming nihilism, the modern concept of “history” into the intellectual context of emptiness or the nothing of Mahāyāna. The consequence of this was the opening of a new line of development within the thinking of emptiness itself, and at the same time a presentation of Mahāyāna emptiness in a manner more easily comprehensible for people around the world. We can regard Nishitani’s philosophy as having opened up a more flexible and elastic relationship between Buddhism and philosophy.
Translated from the Japanese by Robert Chapeskie and revised by John W. M. Krummel.
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Notes
- 1.
Quotations from the 26 Volumes of Nishitani Keiji chosakushū [『西谷啓治著作集』Collected Writings of Nishitani Keiji] (Sōbunsha, 1986~1995) are cited by volume and page number only. See Vol. 21, p. 155f.
- 2.
See Sasaki Tōru, Nishitani Keiji – sono shisaku he no dōhyō [『西谷啓治 – その思索への道標』Nishitani Keiji: Signposts to his Thought], Hōzōkan, 1986.
- 3.
Collected writings Vol. 9, p. 17.
- 4.
Ibid., pp. 16–17.
- 5.
Vol. 11, p. 6.
- 6.
Ibid., p. 7.
- 7.
Ibid., pp. 7–8.
- 8.
See Ueda Shizuteru, “Nishitani Keiji – Shūkyō to hishūkyō no aida” [「西谷啓治 – 宗教と非宗教の間」“Nishitani Keiji: Between Religion and Irreligion”] (Nishitani Keiji (author), Ueda Shizuteru (editor), Shūkyō to hishūkyō no aida [『宗教と非宗教の間』Between Religion and Irreligion], Iwanami Shoten, 1996).
- 9.
Vol. 20, p. 186.
- 10.
Ibid., p. 189.
- 11.
Ibid., pp. 191–192.
- 12.
Vol. 1, p. 193.
- 13.
Ibid., p. 194.
- 14.
Ibid., p. 201.
- 15.
Ibid., p. 207.
- 16.
Ibid., p. 208.
- 17.
Ibid., p. 208.
- 18.
Vol. 1, p. 82.
- 19.
Vol. 10, p. 4.
- 20.
Ibid., p. 4.
- 21.
Ibid., p. 4.
- 22.
“Indifferent” is written in English in the original text (translator).
- 23.
Ibid., p. 101.
- 24.
Ibid., pp. 114–115.
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Keta, M. (2018). Philosophy of Overcoming Nihilism. In: Fujita, M. (eds) The Philosophy of the Kyoto School. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8983-1_16
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