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#absolute-nothingness
Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy)
To be is to be within nothingness
Nishida initially formulated his logic of place or topos to counter Neo-Kantian epistemology that took knowledge to be the subject's form-ruled construction of an objective world. He sought not only to undermine the distinctions between subjective and objective but also to…
God
If death is an ever-present opening, the other side of that opening so to speak is the absolute. To die is to stand vis-à-vis the absolute. In the discussion of the “I- Thou” relation, this term appeared as the absolute other in one's interior; here it shifts to the absolute in…