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Nihilism | Encounter with Nothingness
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Nothingness is generally considered to be analogous with death and extinction which every healthy living instinct wants to avoid. Many find the notion of nothingness unfathomable.
Japanese philosopher Keiji Nishitani, however, was convinced that the way out of nihilism, that which renders meaningless the meaning of life, could only be reached by gazing into the abyss itself.
Nishitani understands human existence as consisting in three fields: consciousness, nihility and emptiness. Nihility is as part of the fabric of reality as Being is, it is relative nothingness, and emptiness is absolute nothingness, where the “absolute negation” as the negation of negation becomes the “great affirmation”.
In the openness of śūnyatā realised by nihility overcoming itself, one completely oversteps the confines of self-consciousness and comes to be free of egocentrism, anthropocentrism and even theocentrism, thus allowing ultimate reality to manifest itself in all its fullness.
We will be focusing on two important works of Nishitani: The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism and Religion and Nothingness.
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction: Keiji Nishitani (4:24) The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism (8:12) Religion and Nothingness (14:36) Consciousness, Nihility, Emptiness (19:13) Cosmic Individual
109 episodes
Manage episode 329963452 series 3356081
Nothingness is generally considered to be analogous with death and extinction which every healthy living instinct wants to avoid. Many find the notion of nothingness unfathomable.
Japanese philosopher Keiji Nishitani, however, was convinced that the way out of nihilism, that which renders meaningless the meaning of life, could only be reached by gazing into the abyss itself.
Nishitani understands human existence as consisting in three fields: consciousness, nihility and emptiness. Nihility is as part of the fabric of reality as Being is, it is relative nothingness, and emptiness is absolute nothingness, where the “absolute negation” as the negation of negation becomes the “great affirmation”.
In the openness of śūnyatā realised by nihility overcoming itself, one completely oversteps the confines of self-consciousness and comes to be free of egocentrism, anthropocentrism and even theocentrism, thus allowing ultimate reality to manifest itself in all its fullness.
We will be focusing on two important works of Nishitani: The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism and Religion and Nothingness.
✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address:
Eternalised
P.O. Box 10.011
28080 Madrid, Spain
━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction: Keiji Nishitani (4:24) The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism (8:12) Religion and Nothingness (14:36) Consciousness, Nihility, Emptiness (19:13) Cosmic Individual
109 episodes
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