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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Kyoto school"”.
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Nihilism and emptiness: Nishitani's encounter with Nietzsche
… thesis, I examine the relationship between the Kyoto School philosopher, Nishitani Keiji, and the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, focusing on the two thinkers’ respective approaches to the problem of nihilism. The work begins by positioning Nishitani’s interpretation of Nietzsche’s account of …
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Heidegger and Nishitani: nothingness, nihilism, and the possibility of meaning
… German phenomenologist, Martin Heidegger and the Kyoto School philosopher, Nishitani Keiji. Nihilism is taken as the experience of existence as meaningless and phenomena as uniformly insignificant due to the restriction of alternate manners of self-understanding through the forgetting of the …
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Modern Japanese Buddhism in the Context of Interreligious Dialogue, Nationalism and World War II
… such as True Pure Land, Nichiren, Zen, and the Kyoto School collaborated with and resisted to them. Despite the main Japanese Buddhism's active participation in the war, there were few Japanese Buddhists' resistances. The dissertation examines why and how they could not effectively resist but …
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The political philosophy of Miki Kiyoshi: A close reading of the philosophical foundations of cooperative communitarianism
… such as the representatives of Cambridge School history of political thought. The resulting reading builds critically on the Japanese scholarship and relates it to contemporary Western and postcolonial political theory and the East Asian tradition, particularly neo-Confucianism. The thesis …