[FRIAM] Has anyone here studied Nishida Kitaro?

[Prof David West]

We studied Kitaro in my undergraduate program, 1968-1972. He was most known for "translating" western philosophical content into Japanese Buddhist context. I encountered him again much later in the context of Christopher Alexander's Quality Without A Name (QWAN) when several authors of conference papers tried to find *'basho*' in Alexander's *Timeless Way of Building*.

His influence would be more pronounced in philosophy circles and topics like metaphysics and epistemology, but mostly in aesthetics — as far as I know. His influence within Zen, far less so. 

davew


On Tue, Mar 1, 2022, at 3:43 PM, Jon Zingale wrote:
> https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nishida-kitaro/
> 
> I met a ceramicist this week. He pointed me to Nishida. Any thoughts?
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