Nishitani Keiji Quotes on Nature
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 nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Nishitani Keiji:
“Only the standpoint of emptiness can hold together being and nothing.”
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“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. -
“A crisis is taking place in the contemporary world in a variety of forms, cutting across the realms of culture, ethics, politics, and so forth. At the ground of these problems is the fact that the essence of being human has turned into a question mark for humanity itself.”
p. 188. -
“In the locus of emptiness, beyond the human standpoint, a world of "dependent origination" is opened up in which everything is related to everything else. Seen in this light, there is nothing in the world that arises from "self-power" and yet all "self-powered" workings arise from the world.”
p. 190.