Keiji Nishitani: Form

Keiji Nishitani was Japanese philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on form.

Keiji Nishitani: 22 quotes6 likes

“In principle, when we distinguish being from beings, we transcend the realm of things that are. It is not that we go to some other world beyond the world we know, or enter into some different realm of beings. Such notions constitute, for Heidegger, a vulgar form of metaphysics with which true philosophy (metaphysics as science) has nothing in common. Philosophy does not go beyond beings ontically to other beings that dwell beyond or behind. It transcends beings ontologically in the direction of being.”

Keiji Nishitani

Source: The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism (1990), p. 163

“A crisis is taking place in the contemporary world in a variety of forms, cutting across the realms of culture, ethics, politics, and so forth. At the ground of these problems is the fact that the essence of being human has turned into a question mark for humanity itself.”

Keiji Nishitani

Source: The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism (1990), p. 188

“From the perspective of Buddhism, Sartre’s notion of Existence, according to which one must create oneself continually in order to maintain oneself within nothing, remains a standpoint of attachment to the self – indeed, the most profound form of this attachment – and as such is caught in the self-contradiction this implies.”

Keiji Nishitani

Source: The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism (1990), p. 187