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Pure experience describes experience before a separate subject–object division in Nishida’s early account. It is not a timeless doctrine attributed to Japanese thought as a whole.
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Guided course · Module 12 · Lesson 72
Self, world and nothingness in modern Japan
Nishida’s accounts of pure experience, place and absolute nothingness change over time. The lesson compares them with the earlier Buddhist idea of emptiness and examines the political implications proposed for his metaphysics.