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Philosophize This! · December 23, 2024 · 40m
Episode #217 — Religion and Nothingness (Kyoto School pt. 2 — Nishitani)
Nishitani's Religion and Nothingness — his masterwork. The limits of dualistic thinking. Science and religion are not opposites; they're both incomplete. True understanding requires transcending the subject-object divide entirely.
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West: Nishitani goes beyond the Stoic dichotomy. The Stoics distinguish between what you can and can't control. Nishitani dissolves the distinction: in deep practice, the controller and the uncontrollable are revealed as the same process.
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West: Nishitani resolves the true-self/false-self problem radically: the true self IS 'no-self.' Not the absence of experience, but experience without a separate experiencer.
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