Nishitani, The Self-Overcoming Of Nihilism | Nihilism and the Problem Of The Self | Core Concepts
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on Nishitani Keiji's work The Self-Overcoming Of Nihilism, and specifically on his discussion in chapter 1 "Nihilism As Existence", which distinguishes several unproductive and inadequate approaches to nihilism, and then frames nihilism as a problem of the self. He notes that the self can be broken into two selves, one which observes and questions, the other which is observed and questioned, but that this bifurcation remains a problem, which then calls to be resolved through actual existence and passionate thinking.
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Just added Nishanthi to my Amazon wishlist a week ago, so strange that this appears. Thank you Dr. Sadler
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This is a very important book to me that was brought to my attention a few years ago through John Verveke’s work on UA-cam. So happy to see that you’re treating it! Excited to watch these episodes!
I've been assigning parts of it to my students in Existentialism classes for a number of years. Perhaps down the line, I'll do more videos on other parts of the work
Great Video, Greg! The Kyoto school has a wealth of philosophical insights.
They're quite interesting. The set I've produced on this work were originally for students in my online Existentialism class, where we spend the last week on a few chapters from this work
Would love to have every video of audio format (eg Spotify), if that’s even possible. Amazing work, as usual, Doctor.
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This video confuses me. The ground of self in the Buddhist sense is the emptiness of awareness and that which it sees of itself the ego. But i dont know what it means to have that become a unity as you say. Also i have always interpreted nihilism as the absence of God and not the absence of an objective self. The Buddhists have considered the core of the self and God as to not be distinct but the Nothingness of Nirvana, however despite learning all this my ego has not been quelled and the nihilism I feel about a world in which God's absolute indifference reigns is also not fulfilled at contemplating the emptiness of self. I will say however that the only time I ever feel content or joy is when I'm in nature and my identity is temporarily erased. When ive become empty and nature fills my vacuum so that i am the nature experienced. But nihilism is more a question of creation than self to me, but im probably wrong. Or i guess the two isnt separate. Regardless, very fitting video because i was literally contemplating ninilism minutes before I saw this on my feed.
If the video confuses you, then read the actual text
Awareness is crucial in to my knowledge every school of buddhism, its not really accurate to describe it as the emptiness of awareness. Also saying the self and god are both nothingness is not a fair assessment of any of the schools I'm aware of, god as an idea just isnt formulated in the way you reuse it in the context of nihilism
If I may be so bold as to offer some clarification on Nishitani, He believed that human existence is composed of three levels, the field of consciousness, the field of nihility, and the field of emptiness (Religion and Nothingness). These are co-present, and each deeper field is more encompassing than the one above. The field of consciousness is a 'life perspective', and the field of nihility is a 'death perspective'. The field of emptiness is a death perspective on life: 'death-life'. This final perspective, for Nishitani, allows us to live life to the fullest.
Moreover, Nishitani holds that Western philosophy has ignored the fields of nihility and emptiness. When Nishitani writes, 'when nihility is experienced behind the existence of the self [..] one can no longer afford to have two separate selves' (p2 this work), he is saying that once we break through the field of consciousness and realise the death of the ego, we have what is called the 'great doubt': the transcendence of doubter and doubted, subject and object. Our self becomes the doubt itself, so there is no objective/subjective self. This is Nishitani's starting point. If Plato and Aristotle convinced us that philosophy begins in wonder and, as Jaspers added, the desire to know is clarified by doubt, Nishitani believes that philosophy begins in nihilistic despair and doubt is passed onto all existence. That is why the field of nihility is where the existence of the self and all existence become 'a question mark', and we encounter the great doubt. Thus, by staying with this great doubt, we await the self-overcoming of nihilism at the turn of affirmation that opens up the field of emptiness (see p8).
@@Andyalmostascottishphilosopher All of you are going way beyond the specific topic of this video. Interesting side-conversations, but from the start of the OP's post, a bit off-topic
@@Andyalmostascottishphilosophervery grateful for this commentary, thank you