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Between Identity and Difference: Three Ways of Reading Nishida's Non-Dualism |
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Kopf, Gereon
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Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
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| Volume | v.31 n.1 |
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| Date | 2004 |
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| Pages | 73 - 103 |
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| Publisher | Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture=南山宗教文化研究所 |
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http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/
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| Location | 名古屋, 日本 [Nagoya, Japan] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Gereon Kopf is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Luther College, IA. He is currently a JSPS fellow based at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture. |
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| Keyword | Nishida Kitarõ; Tanabe Hajime; Takahashi Satomi; Kyoto School; identity; difference; Absolute Nothingness |
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| Abstract | The philosophy of Nishida Kitarõ offers the reader today not only a paradigm
for a comparative philosophy, but also a methodological framework to construct
a Buddhist philosophy. The key and, at the same time, the obstacle to
his philosophy is the concept of the “self-identity of the absolute contradiction.”
This conceptual cornerstone of Nishida’s philosophy is as controversial
among scholars today as it is central to his philosophy. Critics, such as Tanabe
Hajime and Takahashi Satomi, argue that Nishida’s philosophy privileges the
principle of identity over that of difference and falls into a monism; his supporters,
most of all Nishitani Keiji and Ueda Shizuteru, to the contrary, claim
that it comprises the key to philosophical non-dualism. In general, I am convinced
that even his “self-identity of the absolute contradiction,” if it is read
carefully within the context of Nishida’s philosophy, will render a paradigm
that falls neither into a logical contradiction nor into a monism but that provides
the foundation for a non-dualist philosophy. To this end, I will reread it
³rst in the context of Nishida’s overall project and, then, on the background
of Nishida’s debates with his critics. |
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| ISSN | 03041042 (P) |
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| Created date | 2013.01.10 |
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| Modified date | 2017.08.29 |
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