Nishida Kitaro · Philosophy
Nishida’s starting point in <em>An Inquiry into the Good</em> (1911): <em>pure experience</em> (<em>junsui keiken</em>), the concrete happening that is prior to the split into a subject who experiences and an object experienced - and out of which the self itself emerges.
You learned that Nishida begins not from the thinking self but from pure experience - experience taken exactly as given, before subject and object are distinguished - and that he radicalized William James’s idea, making the self a product of experience rather than its owner. Explain the reversal in your own word…
Leads to William James.
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