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Pitanja postavljena Nishidinom filozofijom
Questions Posed by Nishida’s Philosophy

Author(s): Masakatsu Fujita
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo

Summary/Abstract: In this article I would like to clarify the philosophical problems addressed by KitaroNishida, taking into consideration the historical context within which these problems arose. In doing so, I hope to identify what Nishida saw as the limitations of Western thought, and show how he attempted to overcome these limitations. However, I do not intend to proceed merely from out of a historical concern, but wish also to ask what questions Nishida's criticisms pose to us in our present historical context, and what direction his thought points us in. With this dual concern in mind, I take up and discuss Nishida’s critique of subject-object dualism. I interpret Nishida to be developing, in place of a rigid logic of dualism, a “logic of fluidity”. Nishida states that what he calls “pure experience” is constituted out of feeling and volition. I interpret this to mean that, in pure experience, “thatness” coexists with “whatness”.

  • Issue Year: 25/2005
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Croatian
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