Nishida Kitaro · Philosophy
What Nishida founded: the <em>Kyoto School</em>, where Zen’s realization of emptiness is brought into rigorous, non-reductive dialogue with Western philosophy. Religion, in his last essay, is the standpoint where the self questions its own ultimate ground - meeting the absolute not above its finitude but at the very bottom of it.
You learned that Nishida founded the Kyoto School - a non-reductive meeting of Zen and Western philosophy - and that in his last essay religion is the standpoint where the self confronts its own ground; that we touch the absolute by inverse correspondence ( gyaku taio ), at the bottom of the self in facing death; and…
Leads to The Heart Sutra.
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