Founder of the Kyoto School
Nishida Kitaro
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A Japanese philosopher who joined Zen insight with Western philosophy and founded the Kyoto School.
Key work: An Inquiry into the Good (1911)
“I have always been a miner of ore; I have never managed to refine it.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Pure experience comes before the split of subject and object.
Self and world meet in a place of nothing.
Zen practice and Western logic can work together.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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