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Affirming Fate and Incorporating Death: The Role of Amor Fati in Nishitani's Religion and Nothingness
- Philosophy East and West
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 67, Number 4, October 2017
- pp. 1248-1272
- 10.1353/pew.2017.0100
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Abstract:
This article argues for the usefulness of approaching specific aspects of Keiji Nishitani's thinking, in Religion and Nothingness, as developing out of a confrontation with central themes in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. In particular, I interpret Nishitani's discussion of "the personal and impersonal" as a response to the issue of loving fate (amor fati) in Nietzsche's writings. I thus consider Nishitani's approach to amor fati as both a background for thinking through his critical relationship to Nietzsche and as a focal point for thinking through key insights in his creative appropriation of Zen.