著者

佐野 之人

出版者

日本哲学会

雑誌

哲学 (ISSN:03873358)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2021, no.72, pp.127-139, 2021-04-01 (Released:2021-05-20)

著者

佐野 之人

出版者

西田哲学会

雑誌

西田哲学会年報 (ISSN:21881995)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.17, pp.106-121, 2020 (Released:2022-03-11)

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The aim of this paper is to clarify the climax of pure experience as normality, as interpreted by Nishitani Keiji. According to Nishitani, pure experience as described by Nishida Kitaro is a standpoint which, while breaking through ordinary experience, does not go beyond it and is nothing more than normality as “pure” experience. Nishitani provides no further explanation of pure experience. Based on An Inquiry into the Good this paper aims to demonstrate in detail what Nishitani does not explain; specifically, how “normality” as a climactic aspect of “pure experience” is formed from the standpoint of “everydayness”, and also a clarification of the concept of “normality”. This paper reaches the following conclusions. Everyday life is indeed pure experience but that is not evident when it is being experienced. In order for pure experience to become evident it needs to be brought into reflection. However, pure experience brought into reflection is only pure experience for reflection, and it is not genuine pure experience. Breaking through this reflective standpoint makes pure experience evident as normality. However, this has an essential inverse correspondence (gyakutaiō, 逆対応) because it appears as a single expression when the reflective standpoint is broken.