Article: The problematic of continuity: Nishida Kitaro and Aristotle.

As the founder of the Kyoto School, Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945) was instrumental in bringing Japanese philosophy onto the world scene. However, the uniqueness of his philosophizing does not lie in its being Japanese. As James Heisig points out, in fact it would be against Nishida's own wish to regard his philosophy as purely Eastern and not philosophy proper. (1) In other words, he did not defend his philosophy by appealing to his own cultural background. (2) Rather he wanted to engage in the philosophical discourse as it had been practiced in the West. (3) What Nishida proposed was nothing less than a full-fledged challenge to the metaphysics of substance that had ...

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