Philosophers of Nothingness by James W. Heisig

The relation between reason and thought on the one hand, andĮxperience, practice, and faith on the other (see Davis 2004b andĢ006a). The way their thought calls into question accustomed ways of thinking “philosophy” and “religion,” that is to say, The Kyoto School thinkers radically problematize the relation between

Alternatively, one could focus on the manner in which many of “self that is not a self” (see Heisig 2001 and Davis 2002,ġ58ff.). “acting-intuition,” or the non-dualistic awareness of a ( jikaku), which is not the self-consciousness of a subjectiveĮgo but rather a “seeing without a seer,” an “absolute dialectic.” Or one could focus on the idea of “logic of soku-hi (is and is not),” or an “the self-identity of absolute contradictories,” a Shared pivotal ideas of the Kyoto School that could have been chosen.įor example, one could focus on the search for a new logic: a logic of Suzuki is also normally not included under Ryôjin, and the Zen master Kobori Sôhaku Nanrei, as members Portray the Shin Buddhist thinkers Kiyozawa Manshi and Soga While the book certainly provides us with an importantĪnthology of modern Japanese religious philosophy, it is misleading to Kyoto School (1982), is often singled out for criticism in this Kôichi and Ueda Shizuteru (Z) Hase Shôtô and now Ketaįrank's edited volume, The Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Shinichi and Nishitani Keiji (Z) Takeuchi Yoshinori (S) Tsujimura Generations of chair holders at Kyoto University as loosely alternatingīetween primarily Zen Buddhism (Z) oriented thinkers and primarily Shinīuddhism (S) oriented thinkers: Nishida (Z) Tanabe (S) Hisamatsu Religious traditions, it is nevertheless possible to see the School's That all the Kyoto School thinkers drew inspiration from multiple Who write their given names first for their publications in Western Exceptions are in the cases of authors such as Masao Abe Are written here in the Japanese order of family name first, followedīy given name.

Philosophers of Nothingness by James W. Heisig