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Kierkegaard and Nishida: Ways to the Non-Substantial

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European philosophy, from the ancient Greeks to Hegel, is a philosophy that has at its centre the idea of a substantial absolute. Hegel’s Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1817) is a typical example. In this work the Christian God is conceived of as a substantial entity spontaneously unfolding itself through history.

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  1. Martin Buber, I and Thou, trans. Walter Kaufmann ( New York: Touchstone, 1970.

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  2. Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death, trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong ( Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1980 ) p. 13.

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  3. Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments, trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong ( Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1985 ) p. 67.

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  4. Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong ( Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1992 ) p. 189.

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  5. Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety, trans. Reidar Thomte (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980 ) p. 42.

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  6. Kitaro Nishida, ‘Basho’ [’Place] in Nishida Kitaro zenshū [Complete Works of Kitaro Nishida] 4, ed. Torataro Shimomura ( Tokyo: Iwanami Press, 1965 ) p. 209.

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  7. Shinichi Hisamatsu, ‘Kaku to sozo’ [‘Self-awareness and Creativity] in Hisamatsu Shinichi zenshū [Complete Works of Shinichi Hisamatsu] 3 ( Tokyo: Risōsha, 1972 ) p. 458.

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  1. Eiko Hanaoka
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  1. University of British, UK

    James Giles (Professor of Philosophy, Tutor at Madingley Hall) (Professor of Philosophy, Tutor at Madingley Hall)

  2. University of Cambridge, UK

    James Giles (Professor of Philosophy, Tutor at Madingley Hall) (Professor of Philosophy, Tutor at Madingley Hall)

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Hanaoka, E. (2008). Kierkegaard and Nishida: Ways to the Non-Substantial. In: Giles, J. (eds) Kierkegaard and Japanese Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230589827_9

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