Anonymous
6/28/2025, 10:56:32 PM No.24504300
Does Nishitani fix the crisis of meaning of the godless Western world?
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Anonymous
6/28/2025, 11:25:12 PM No.24504331
>>24504300 (OP)
Clearly not. The west needs a new story and way of thinking about the divine and spiritual through which it can connect to god again. The death of god is an illusion programmed into our subconscious by our mechanistic and bureaucratic environment and the leftist ideology of the hostile elites which control our society.
Clearly not. The west needs a new story and way of thinking about the divine and spiritual through which it can connect to god again. The death of god is an illusion programmed into our subconscious by our mechanistic and bureaucratic environment and the leftist ideology of the hostile elites which control our society.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 12:14:47 AM No.24504387
>>24504300 (OP)
>nothingness is brought into a relationship with being by force. It serves as a negation.
This isn't particularly new to the west, but it's more abrasive than modern existentialism.
>Questions of religion start when utility is no longer a viable form of evaluation.
>in western thought the separation of philosophy and religion was in the cradle.
>the root problem of nihilism is an aversion to both religion and science.
These are also documented overlaps. A fair amount of his thoughts were mostly identifying with western mysticism.
>if silence is golden then Zen is the purifying fire that reduces all meaningless words, systems, and structures into bars.
>the openness of Americans towards European thought has also made it possible for Zen to make it's way in.
This was also something Suzuki commented on. Nishitani thought it was related to the forced separation of church and state in Japan, although Zen was never a formal religion anywhere. Suzuki thought it had grown stale in Japan but America offered new and fertile ground and it regained some of it's meaning. Nowhere as big as the 4th council but there aren't as many assassination attempts.
>nothingness is brought into a relationship with being by force. It serves as a negation.
This isn't particularly new to the west, but it's more abrasive than modern existentialism.
>Questions of religion start when utility is no longer a viable form of evaluation.
>in western thought the separation of philosophy and religion was in the cradle.
>the root problem of nihilism is an aversion to both religion and science.
These are also documented overlaps. A fair amount of his thoughts were mostly identifying with western mysticism.
>if silence is golden then Zen is the purifying fire that reduces all meaningless words, systems, and structures into bars.
>the openness of Americans towards European thought has also made it possible for Zen to make it's way in.
This was also something Suzuki commented on. Nishitani thought it was related to the forced separation of church and state in Japan, although Zen was never a formal religion anywhere. Suzuki thought it had grown stale in Japan but America offered new and fertile ground and it regained some of it's meaning. Nowhere as big as the 4th council but there aren't as many assassination attempts.