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The Logic of Nothingness

Author : Robert J. J. Wargo
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824873890
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Nothingness written by Robert J. J. Wargo and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2005-05-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of Nishida Kitarô, whose name has become almost synonymous with Japanese philosophy, continue to attract attention around the world. Yet studies of his thought in Western languages have tended to overlook two key areas: first, the influence of the generation of Japanese philosophers who preceded Nishida; and second, the logic of basho (place), the cornerstone of Nishida’s mature philosophical system. The Logic of Nothingness addresses both of these topics. Robert Wargo argues that the overriding concern of Nishida’s mature philosophy, the attempt to give a reasonable account of reality that includes the reasonableness of that account itself—or what Wargo calls "the problem of completeness"—has its origins in Inoue Enryo’s (1858–1919) and Inoue Tetsujiro’s (1855–1944) preoccupation with "the problem of standpoints." A translation of one of Nishida’s most demanding texts, included here as an appendix, demonstrates the value of Wargo’s insightful analysis of the logic of basho as an aid to deciphering the philosopher’s early work.

The Nothingness Beyond God

Author : Robert Edgar Carter
Publisher : New York : Paragon House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Nothingness Beyond God written by Robert Edgar Carter and published by New York : Paragon House. This book was released on 1989 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we hear the term "Japanese philosophy" we think of Zen Buddhism or the Shinto scriptures. Yet one of the great 20th century interpreters of Western philosophy, Nishida Kitaro, lived and wrote in the Japanese islands all his life, laboring at an ultimate synthesis of oriental thought and Western hermeneutics. To be sure, Nishida's aim was to understand his own cultural influences in relation to the Western world. What distinguished him, however, was his passion for rendering oriental metaphysics understandable in the language of Western philosophy, and his attempts to contrast the paradoxicality of Buddhist logic with the logical strategies of Aristotle, Kant, or Hegel. Featured in this book is an interpretation of Nishida's writings. Professor Carter focuses on the Japanese thinker's notion of "basho," a concept of nothingness as field, place or topos as borrowed from Plato's Tim'us. Expounding on the logical foundations and archaic elements in Nishida's work, and carefully explaining Nishida's critical approach to the questions of God, religion and morality, and pure existence, this discerning book offers students of Western philosophy and oriental thought alike a highly readable introduction to the teachings of a true world philosopher.

Intelligibility and the philosophy of nothingness

Author : K.Nishida
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5872499671
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Intelligibility and the philosophy of nothingness written by K.Nishida and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1958 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligibility and the philosophy of nothingness. Three philosophical essays. Translated with an introduction by Robert Schinzinger.

Last Writings

Author : Nishida Kitaro
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824815547
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Last Writings written by Nishida Kitaro and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nishida Kitarô, Japan's premier modern philosopher, was born in 1870 and grew to intellectual maturity in the final decades of the Meiji period (1868–1912). He achieved recognition as Japan's leading establishment philosopher during his tenure as professor of philosophy at Kyoto University. After his retirement in 1927, and until his death in 1945, Nishida published a continuous stream of original essays that can best be described as intercivilizational, a meeting point of East and West. His final essay, "The Logic of the Place of Nothingness and the Religious Worldview," completed in the last few months before his death, is a summation of his philosophy of religion and has come to be regarded as the foundational text of the Kyoto school. It is one of the few places in his writings where Nishida draws openly and freely on East Asian Buddhist sources as analogs of his own ideas. Here Nishida argues for the existential primordiality of the religious consciousness against Kant, while also critically engaging the thought of such authors as Aristotle, the Christian Neo-Platonists, Spinoza, Fichte, Hegel, Barth, and Tillich. He makes it clear that he is also indebted to Pascal, Kierkegaard, and Dostoievsky as well as to Nâgârjuna, the Ch'an masters, Shinran, Dôgen, and other Buddhist thinkers. This book--a translation of the most seminal work of Nishida's career--also includes a translation of his "Last Writing" (Zeppitsu), written just two days before his death.

Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture

Author : Keiji Nishitani
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520073647
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture written by Keiji Nishitani and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years several books by major figures in Japan's modern philosophical tradition have appeared in English, exciting readers by their explorations of the borderlands between philosophy and religion. What has been wanting, however, is a book in a Western language to elucidate the life and thought of Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), Japan's first philosopher of world stature and the originator of what has come to be called the Kyoto School. No one is more qualified to write such a book than Nishitani Keiji, whose lifetime coincides with the rise and flowering of the Kyoto School and whose own critical contribution to Japanese thought has been so important. Nishida Kitaro is a translation of essays Nishitani wrote about his teacher from 1936 to 1968 and published as a book in 1985. This series of meditations by one master on another provides a remarkable, living portrait of Nishida the person and conveys the enthusiasm he aroused in his students. Examining Nishida's most important work, An Inquiry into the Good, Nishitani penetrates to the core of his thought and presents it in language that is a marvel of clarity.

Intelligibility and the Philosophy of Nothingness

Author : Kitaro Nishida
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780758187734
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book Intelligibility and the Philosophy of Nothingness written by Kitaro Nishida and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nothingness Beyond God

Author : Robert Edgar Carter
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nothingness Beyond God written by Robert Edgar Carter and published by Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the work and thought of Nishida Kitar-o, a Japanese who was one of the 20th century's most profound interpreters of Oriental metaphysics in the language Western philosophy. Expounds his approach to God, religion, morality, and pure experience, with chapters on the logic of basho, self-contradictory identity, God and nothingness, action intuition, and values and feeling. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Vindication of Nothingness

Author : Marco Simionato
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3868385878
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book The Vindication of Nothingness written by Marco Simionato and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophical question of nothingness has often been controversial. The main core of the question is the use of ‘nothing’ or ‘nothingness’ as a noun phrase rather than a quantifier phrase. This work deals with the question of nothingness and metaphysical nihilism in analytic philosophy. After evaluating an account of nothingness based on the notion of an empty possible world, the present work proposes two original arguments for metaphysical nihilism. With a preface by Graham Priest. “Simionato’s book delivers a welcome deepening of our understanding of nothing.” Graham Priest

The Logic of Basho and the Concept of Nothingness in the Philosophy of Nishida Kitṭarō

Author : Robert Joseph John Wargo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Basho and the Concept of Nothingness in the Philosophy of Nishida Kitṭarō written by Robert Joseph John Wargo and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Intelligibility and the Philosophy of Nothingness

Author : Kitarō Nishida
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780837166896
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Intelligibility and the Philosophy of Nothingness written by Kitarō Nishida and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Much Ado About Nothingness

Author : James W. Heisig
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517690304
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Much Ado About Nothingness written by James W. Heisig and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much Ado About Nothingness brings together 14 essays on Nishida Kitaro and Tanabe Hajime by one of the leading scholars of twentieth-century Japanese philosophy. With Nishida's "logic of place" and Tanabe's "logic of the specific" providing a continuity to the whole, the author writes from a conviction that"the overriding challenge for those doing philosophy in the key of the Kyoto School, with their sights set squarely on self-awareness like Nishida and Tanabe before them, is to turn its attention to the wider world and sharpen its conscience without simply giving in to the growing pressures to police the awareness of others."

Nothingness in the Heart of Empire

Author : Harumi Osaki
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438473095
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Nothingness in the Heart of Empire written by Harumi Osaki and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the complicity between the Kyoto Schools moral and political philosophy, based on the schools founder Nishida Kitar?s metaphysics of nothingness, and Japanese imperialism. In the field of philosophy, the common view of philosophy as an essentially Western discipline persists even today, while non-Western philosophy tends to be undervalued and not investigated seriously. In the field of Japanese studies, in turn, research on Japanese philosophy tends to be reduced to a matter of projecting existing stereotypes of alleged Japanese cultural uniqueness through the reading of texts. In Nothingness in the Heart of Empire, Harumi Osaki resists both these tendencies. She closely interprets the wartime discourses of the Kyoto School, a group of modern Japanese philosophers who drew upon East Asian traditions as well as Western philosophy. Her book lucidly delves into the non-Western forms of rationality articulated in such discourses, and reveals the problems inherent in them as the result of these philosophers engagements in Japans wartime situation, without cloaking these problems under the pretense of Japanese cultural uniqueness. In addition, in a manner reminiscent of the controversy surrounding Martin Heideggers involvement with Nazi Germany, the book elucidates the political implications of the morality upheld by the Kyoto School and its underlying metaphysics. As such, this book urges dialogue beyond the divide between Western and non-Western philosophies, and beyond the separation between lofty philosophy and common politics. In this powerful book, Harumi Osaki announces herself as a major voice in Kyoto School scholarship. Drawing extensively on the work of Naoki Sakai, Osaki indicates that the problems of Western universalism and non-Western (Asian, Japanese) particularism are in fact but two sides of the same coin. This important insight, when put in the service of her considerable philosophical erudition, has allowed her to write what to my knowledge is the most intelligent, probing book on Nishida and the Kyoto School in the English language. Richard F. Calichman, author of Beyond Nation: Time, Writing, and Community in the Work of Abe K?b?

Nothingness in Asian Philosophy

Author : JeeLoo Liu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317683846
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Nothingness in Asian Philosophy written by JeeLoo Liu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A variety of crucial and still most relevant ideas about nothingness or emptiness have gained profound philosophical prominence in the history and development of a number of South and East Asian traditions—including in Buddhism, Daoism, Neo-Confucianism, Hinduism, Korean philosophy, and the Japanese Kyoto School. These traditions share the insight that in order to explain both the great mysteries and mundane facts about our experience, ideas of "nothingness" must play a primary role. This collection of essays brings together the work of twenty of the world’s prominent scholars of Hindu, Buddhist, Daoist, Neo-Confucian, Japanese and Korean thought to illuminate fascinating philosophical conceptualizations of "nothingness" in both classical and modern Asian traditions. The unique collection offers new work from accomplished scholars and provides a coherent, panoramic view of the most significant ways that "nothingness" plays crucial roles in Asian philosophy. It includes both traditional and contemporary formulations, sometimes putting Asian traditions into dialogue with one another and sometimes with classical and modern Western thought. The result is a book of immense value for students and researchers in Asian and comparative philosophy.

Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness

Author : Kitar? Nishida
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887063688
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness written by Kitar? Nishida and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nishida Kitaro's reformulation of the major issues of Western philosophy from a Zen standpoint of "absolute nothingness" and "absolutely contradictory self-identity" represents the boldest speculative enterprise of modern Japan, continued today by his successors in the "Kyoto School" of philosophy. This English translation of Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness evokes the movement and flavor of the original, clarifies its obscurities, and eliminates the repetitions. It sheds new light on the philosopher's career, revealing a long struggle with such thinkers as Cohen, Natorp, Husserl, Fichte, and Bergson, that ended with Nishida's break from the basic ontological assumptions of the West. Throughout labyrinthine arguments, Nishida never loses sight of his theme: the irreducibility and unobjectifiability of the act of self-consciousness which constitutes the self. Extensive annotation is provided for the first time in any edition of Nishida's work. Historians of Japanese philosophy and culture, and all those interested in the interaction of Eastern and Western thought-forms, now have a document which highlights many of the cultural, psychological, and intellectual dynamics that have shaped Japanese intellectual life in one of its most fascinating and ambitious manifestations.

Plural Logic

Author : Alex Oliver
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192595385
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Plural Logic written by Alex Oliver and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley provide a natural point of entry to what for most readers will be a new subject. Plural logic deals with plural terms ('Whitehead and Russell', 'Henry VIII's wives', 'the real numbers', 'the square root of -1', 'they'), plural predicates ('surrounded the fort', 'are prime', 'are consistent', 'imply'), and plural quantification ('some things', 'any things'). Current logic is singularist: its terms stand for at most one thing. By contrast, the foundational thesis of this book is that a particular term may legitimately stand for several things at once; in other words, there is such a thing as genuinely plural denotation. The authors argue that plural phenomena need to be taken seriously and that the only viable response is to adopt a plural logic, a logic based on plural denotation. They expound a framework of ideas that includes the distinction between distributive and collective predicates, the theory of plural descriptions, multivalued functions, and lists. A formal system of plural logic is presented in three stages, before being applied to Cantorian set theory as an illustration. Technicalities have been kept to a minimum, and anyone who is familiar with the classical predicate calculus should be able to follow it. The authors' approach is an attractive blend of no-nonsense argumentative directness and open-minded liberalism, and they convey the exciting and unexpected richness of their subject. Mathematicians and linguists, as well as logicians and philosophers, will find surprises in this book. This second edition includes a greatly expanded treatment of the paradigm empty term zilch, a much strengthened treatment of Cantorian set theory, and a new chapter on higher-level plural logic.

Ex Nihilo

Author : Eric Beaubien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781648580178
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Ex Nihilo written by Eric Beaubien and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A logic-based model of the universe is derived from a state of nothing consistent with its observed properties.

Nothingness and the Meaning of Life

Author : Nicholas Waghorn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472534565
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Nothingness and the Meaning of Life written by Nicholas Waghorn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the meaning of life? Does anything really matter? In the past few decades these questions, perennially associated with philosophy in the popular consciousness, have rightly retaken their place as central topics in the academy. In this major contribution, Nicholas Waghorn provides a sustained and rigorous elucidation of what it would take for lives to have significance. Bracketing issues about ways our lives could have more or less meaning, the focus is rather on the idea of ultimate meaning, the issue of whether a life can attain meaning that cannot be called into question. Waghorn sheds light on this most fundamental of existential problems through a detailed yet comprehensive examination of the notion of nothing, embracing classic and cutting-edge literature from both the analytic and Continental traditions. Central figures such as Heidegger, Carnap, Wittgenstein, Nozick and Nagel are drawn upon to anchor the discussion in some of the most influential discussion of recent philosophical history. In the process of relating our ideas concerning nothing to the problem of life's meaning, Waghorn's book touches upon a number of fundamental themes, including reflexivity and its relation to our conceptual limits, whether religion has any role to play in the question of life's meaning, and the nature and constraints of philosophical methodology. A number of major philosophical traditions are addressed, including phenomenology, poststructuralism, and classical and paraconsistent logics. In addition to providing the most thorough current discussion of ultimate meaning, it will serve to introduce readers to philosophical debates concerning the notion of nothing, and the appendix engaging religion will be of value to both philosophers and theologians.