The Kyoto School: An Introduction

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Abe Masao (1915–2006), 12, 91, 116, 195n40, 195n47, 199n6 absolute, the, 82, 86–87, 98. See also One, the; relative as absolute nothingness, 70–71 divine manifestations of, 41 and mediation, 74 and negation, 55 as self‑contradictory, 45, 48–49 union with, 54 (see also mysticism) absolute affirmation. See affirmation absolute emptiness. See under emptiness absolute mediation. See under mediation absolute nothingness. See under nothingness action-faith, 61, 81–82 action-faith-witness, 81, 85, 175 action intuition, 28–29, 61, 158–60, 173 action of no-action, 82 Adam and Eve, 43, 46–47 adversarial, 141–42. See also consensus affirmation, 115, 74 aidagara (betweenness), xxi, 125, 141–43, 173. See also betweenness aikidō (way of harmony), 113, 131, 147, 173, 194n34. See also Japanese arts aikidōka (student of aikidō), 147, 173 Allah, 39 Amida Buddha. See under Buddha an sich (Ger, in-itself), 85, 173. See also en-soi; in-itself analogies (fire, sword, eye, water). See under in-itself Ancient Japanese Culture (Watsuji), 127 anicca (Pali: impermanence), 167. See also impermanence; mujō Anselm of Canterbury (1033– 1109), 7 antithesis, 56 Aquinas, Thomas (1225–1274), 7 artist vs scholar, 27 Aristotelian, 67 Aristotle (384–322 BCE), 49, 109, 127, 175 arrogance, 62–64, 68, 71–72, 80–83, 154, 162, 163. See also hubris attachment, 123 attitudes, 132, 134, 138, 141, 144, 148, 152, 168. See also values Index 209 210 / Index Augustine (354–430), 7 authentic existence, xiii background, 59, 106, 114, 144, 169. See also foreground basho (place or field), 14, 25, 58–59, 109, 173. See also Logic of Basho; topos and betweenness, 140, 146 as deep self, 42 and kimono, 33 logic of, 45, 76 and Tanabe, 65, 81 three types, 38 Bashō (1644–1694), 23, 33, 116 be-ification, 114, 165 being, is emptiness, 114 (see also emptiness, is being) and Western culture, 5 (see also nothingness, and Eastern cultures) beings, 115, 122, 174, 179, 198n36. See also things and Being, xiii being[s]-in-nothingness, 85–86 interconnection of, 88 and nothingness, 155, 161 original mode of, 165 relative, 74, 81–83 are Śūnyatā, 115 Being and Time (Heidegger), 13, 132 Bein, Steve, 127 Bergson, Henri (1859–1941), xiii, 20–21, 77, 93, 127, 174, 175 and duration, 20–21 and immediate experience, 20 and intuition, 20–21 Berkeley, George (1685–1753), 25, 105 betweenness, xxi, 125, 135–38, 140–47, 150, 152, 168–69, 173, 178. See also aidagara; gen; under nothingness Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche), 131 Bhattacharya, K. C. (1875–1949), 10 Bible, the, 92 Blue Cliff Records, The (ancient teachings), 121, 196n54 Bodhisattva (Buddhist saint), 74–75, 174 body-mind, 150–51, 158–60, 173. See also under oneness, of mind and body Boehme, Jakob (1575–1624), 56 both/and logic, 45, 84, 136–37. See also either/or logic; neither /nor logic; two-value logic Bownes, Geoffrey, 129 Brahman, 181. See also God Brentano, Franz, (1838–1917), 127 Buber, Martin (1878–1965), 32 Buddha, 21, 39, 41, 49, 52, 61, 70, 76, 85, 107, 135, 152, 170 Amida, xv–xvi, 69, 72–73, 152, 173, 177 becoming a, 85 -hood, 174, 180, 181 -nature, 41, 71, 84, 86, 88, 174 -self, 88, 164 Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Kyoto School, The (Takeuchi), 13 Buddhism, x, xi, xvii, 1, 5, 6, 10, 97, 181. See also Kegon Buddhism ; Shin Index / 211 Buddhism; Shingon Buddhism; Tendai Buddhism; Zen Buddhism and attitudes, 168 Chinese, 139 and dependent origination, 74, 87, 117, 195n47 and emptiness, 112 emptiness and Watsuji, 151, 170 and evil, 49 and impermanence, 76, 135, 167 influence on Japanese culture, 127 Japanese, and ethics, 121–24 and the Kyoto philosophers, 9, 11 and Nishida, 13, 21 and suffering, 104 bunraku (puppetry), 194n34 Burch, George B., 51, 54 Busse, Ludwig (1862–1907), 13 busshō (Buddha-nature), 41, 174. See also Buddha, nature Byron (1788–1824), 126 calligraphy. See Japanese arts Camus, Albert (1913–1960), 92 Carter, Robert E., ix–xi, xvi–xvii, 186n48, 191n27, 194n34, 197n17 carving out, 43 causation, 15, 195n47 centrifugal. See under evil centripetal. See under good Cézanne, Paul (1839–1906), 46 chadō (way of tea), 113, 174, 187n69 ch’eng (Chinese: sincerity), 139. See also makoto; sincerity Christianity, 38–39, 69, 96–97, 126, 157 collapse of, 96–97 circuminsessional interpenetration, 117, 122, 166, 174. See also interpenetration climate, 128–30, 132, 135, 141, 143, 148, 167–68...