Nishitani Keiji Quotes on Knowledge
Nishitani Keiji was a Japanese philosopher and one of the principal figures of the second generation of the Kyoto School. This page collects quotes attributed to Nishitani Keiji on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Nishitani Keiji:
“Religion is the place where one comes to know oneself.”
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“In the religiosity of Zen Buddhism , demythologization of the mythical and existentialization of the scientific belong to one and the same process.”
Zen Skin, Zen Marrow (Oxford: 2008), p. 134. -
“Zen Skin, Zen Marrow (Oxford: 2008), p. 134.”
In the religiosity of Zen Buddhism , demythologization of the mythical and existentialization of the scientific belong to one and the same process. -
“Previous ideals and values undermine themselves and collapse into nothing precisely as a result of the effort to make them consummate and exhaustive.”
p. 104. -
“Summarizing Nietzsche ’s views, p. 109.”
Through the sincerity cultivated by Christian morality the values and ideals established by that morality itself are revealed as fictions. -
“In principle, when we distinguish being from beings, we transcend the realm of things that are. It is not that we go to some other world beyond the world we know, or enter into some different realm of beings. Such notions constitute, for Heidegger, a vulgar form of metaphysics with which true philosophy (metaphysics as science) has nothing in common. Philosophy does not go beyond beings ontically to other beings that dwell beyond or behind. It transcends beings ontologically in the direction of being.”
p. 163. -
“Ironically, it was not in his nihilistic view of Buddhism but in such ideas as amor fati and the Dionysian as the overcoming of nihilism that Nietzsche came closest to Buddhism, and especially to Mahāyāna.”
p. 180.