著者

沖長 宜司

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.5, pp.113-128, 2008 (Released:2020-03-24)

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In this paper, we examine the problem of nihilism, conferring Nishida’s theory Basho. The negativity of nihilism appears to be infinite and can never be logically upset. This negativity makes our being complete nonsense. But we can find some cases of experience in which even such nihilism vanishes. These cases indicate that even cruel nihilism has a hidden condition, and that upsetting this condition leads us to make nihilism vanish. Whatever we may think, our thought, in general, must be based on a certain frame which remains not thematic. And Basho corresponds to this frame in the first place. Next, the infinite negativity of nihilism is based on a peculiar frame, and such frame is nothing other than “Basho of genuine nothingness”. Such Basho must include even the quantitative infinite negative nothingness, so this Basho must be qualitatively infinite. And this qualitative infinity conditions any of our thinking and therefore it is situated before the distinction of being and nothing. So it is absolutely unthinkable. Thus the paradoxical character of “Basho of genuine nothingness”is that we are driven to regard it as a certain reality in spite of its incomprehensibility. And such Basho’s transcendence from the quantitative infinity is also incomprehensible for us. As far as we accept such character of Basho, we cannot help us to suppose that reality is not restricted to rational reality.