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“Nishida Kitarō’s Philosophy of Absolute Nothingness (Zettaimu no tetsugaku) and Modern Theoretical Physics”

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dc.abstract.enNishida Kitarō (1870-1945), the founder of the Kyoto school of philosophy, often stated that his philosophy of Absolute Nothingness (zettaimu no tetsugaku), which had in part been inspired by Zen Buddhism, was not a kind of mysticism. In his last unfinished essay, Watakushi no ronri ni tsuite (Concerning My Logic, 1945) he complained that his logic of absolutely contradictory self-identity (zettaimujunteki jikodōitsu no ronri) had not been understood by the academic world and its meaning had been distorted. Nishida decided that the only way of clarifying his philosophical standpoint was to redefine the concepts of 'mind' and 'logic' by showing the relation of the philosophy of Absolute Nothingness to the philosophy of science, especially to quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity. Nishida wrote many essays dedicated to the philosophy of science, the most important among them is Keiken kagaku (Experimental Science, 1939, translated by me into Polish, with comments from Krzysztof Stefański, professor of physics). The purpose of this article is to explain how Nishida incorporated into his philosophy of absolute nothingness the standpoint of operationalism, elaborated by Percy W. Bridgman (1882-1961, who received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1946) in order to undermine the adequacy of classical logic as far as the description of reality was concerned.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorKozyra, Agnieszka
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-25T13:50:15Z
dc.date.available2024-01-25T13:50:15Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.financeNie dotyczy
dc.description.number2
dc.description.volume68
dc.identifier.doi10.1353/PEW.2018.0039
dc.identifier.issn0031-8221
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/113790
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/690293
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationphilosophy
dc.relation.ispartofPhilosophy East & West
dc.relation.pages423-446
dc.rightsClosedAccess
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dc.subject.enNishida Kitaro
dc.subject.enphilosophy of science
dc.subject.enphilosophy of physics
dc.subject.enBuddhism Zen
dc.subject.enNothingness
dc.title“Nishida Kitarō’s Philosophy of Absolute Nothingness (Zettaimu no tetsugaku) and Modern Theoretical Physics”
dc.typeJournalArticle
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