A Metaphysical Dialogue within the Kyoto School of Philosophy NISHIDA Kitarô, SODA Kiichirô, and MUTAI Risaku

Title

A Metaphysical Dialogue within the Kyoto School of Philosophy NISHIDA Kitarô, SODA Kiichirô, and MUTAI Risaku

Author

Michel DALISSIER

Page

1-50

DOI

10.6163/tjeas.2016.13(2)1

Abstract

Nishida Kitarô's is generally depicted as a philosopher of nothingness. In the present paper, I would like to discuss this suggestive but ambiguous characterization, starting the enquiry with the seminal essay he wrote in order to answer to the critique of his celebrated topological logic, by Sôda Kiichirô. Firstly, I focus on the last sections of Nishida's essay, to make clear in what sense we can still speak of ＂being＂ within the frame of such an unfathomable logic of nothingness. In other words, Nishida is a philosopher of nothingness to the extent that he meditates being. Secondly, I demonstrate that the very notions of nothingness and being can be logically articulated through a topo-logy that yields new insights into the idea of ＂predication＂, according to what I call a ＂second sketch of topo-logization＂. Now, what is the ultimate meaning of such a topology for Nishida? Finally, I establish how a painstaking reading of his late 1944 correspondence with Mutai Risaku reveals his unsuspected project of reapprehending metaphysics under the form of ＂topological logic＂, rather than ＂logic of place＂ or ＂place-logic＂.

Keyword

NISHIDA Kitarô, SÔ DA Kiichirô, MUTAI Risaku, TANABE Hajime, MERLEAU-PONTY, BERGSON, Logic of Place, Topological Logic, Metaphysics, Nothingness, Being, Non-Being, Subject, Predicate, Predication, Contradiction, Religion, Buddhism.

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