Keiji Nishitani
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Keiji Nishitani (February 27, 1900 – November 24, 1990) was a Japanese philosopher of the Kyoto School and a disciple of Kitaro Nishida.
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[edit] The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism (1990)
- 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
- Through the sincerity cultivated by Christian morality the values and ideals established by that morality itself are revealed as fictions.
- Summarizing Nietzsche’s views, p. 109
- 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
