Nishida Kitaro · Philosophy

Absolute Contradictory Self-Identity

Nishida&rsquo;s late logic of the historical world: reality is a <em>self-identity of absolute contradiction</em> - one and many, continuous and discontinuous, at once - and the world is creative, forming itself &lsquo;from the made to the making&rsquo; through individuals who are shaped by the world even as they shape it.

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You learned that for the late Nishida the world is an absolute contradictory self-identity - one and many, continuous and discontinuous, held in tension without synthesis - and that it is creative, moving &lsquo;from the made to the making,&rsquo; with each individual both formed by the world and forming it through ac…

Leads to G. W. F. Hegel.

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