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Nishida Kitarō
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Nishida develops changing accounts of experience and of the context of subject–object distinctions. His metaphysics and his political claims each need examining, without assuming that either guarantees the other.
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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.