Philosopher
Keiji Nishitani
Overview
Keiji Nishitani (西谷 啓治, Nishitani Keiji; February 27, 1900 – November 24, 1990) was a Japanese philosopher. He was a scholar of the Kyoto School and a disciple of Kitarō Nishida. In 1924, Nishitani received his doctorate from Kyoto Imperial University for his dissertation "Das Ideale und das Reale bei Schelling und Bergson". He studied under Martin Heidegger in Freiburg from 1937 to 1939.
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Philosophers who discussed Keiji Nishitani
- Kitarō Nishida
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Hajime Tanabe
- Eugene Thacker
- Tetsurō Watsuji
- Shizuteru Ueda
Ideas Keiji Nishitani discusses
- Kitarō Nishida
- Prajñā (Buddhism)
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Henri Bergson
- Dualism in cosmology
- Western philosophy
- Immanuel Kant
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Koan
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Kyoto University
- Marxism
- Pure Land Buddhism
- Śūnyatā
- Augustine of Hippo
- Meister Eckhart
- Nihilism
- Noble Eightfold Path
- Political philosophy
- René Descartes
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Mysticism
- University of Freiburg
Place in the tradition
Part of Buddhist philosophy.