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Nishida Kitaro

nee-SHEE-dah kee-tah-ROH

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A Japanese philosopher who founded the Kyoto School and remains its central figure. Trained in both classical Zen practice and Western philosophy, he developed the concept of absolute nothingness and a logic of place (basho) intended to ground the standing opposition between subject and object, being and non-being, in something more fundamental than either. His 1911 An Inquiry into the Good secured him a position at Kyoto University, from which the school took its name.

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Birth Year
1870 1
Notable Publication
An Inquiry into the Good (Zen no Kenkyu, 1911) 1
Death Year
1945 1
Tradition
Kyoto School, Japanese philosophy 1
Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

Kyoto School, Schools of Philosophy
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Founded By

Kyoto School, Schools of Philosophy
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

In Branch

Metaphysics, Branches of Philosophy
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Sources
1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Informations.v. Nishida Kitaro
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Nishida Kitaro was the most significant and influential Japanese philosopher of the twentieth-century.
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1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and InformationFounded By: Kyoto School, s.v. The Kyoto SchoolView the Source
1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and InformationAssociated With: Kyoto SchoolView the Source
1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and InformationIn Branch: MetaphysicsView the Source
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