著者
西村 惠信
出版者
大法輪閣
雑誌
大法輪
巻号頁・発行日
vol.85, no.3, pp.54-57, 2018-03
著者
西村 惠信
出版者
宗教哲学会
雑誌
宗教哲学研究 (ISSN:02897105)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.10, pp.35-49, 1993 (Released:2018-03-29)

For Nishitani Keiji, “Directness or 直接性” of the Reality was one of the most fundamental issues in his whole system of philosophy of religion. Although procedure of his thought life has shown the three clear-cut stages, as he recalled in his later life by using such terms as “pre-philosophical”,“philosophical” and “post-philosophical”,there lies his consistent interest in the “Directness” of the Reality in his deep experience of his life. In his young days, Nishitani was suffered from the uncertain feeling of his own existence by his father’s death or his own disease, so much as he once decided to become a Zen monk. In those days, Nishitani came to the steady selfconfidence; “I am alone and nobody else helps me”. In this way he began to concentrate himself upon the self-inquiry (koji-kyuumei or 己事究明). What made him decide to study philosophy amid of such situation was no other than the issue of nihilism, since a nihilism inevitably has the direction to philosophy. A study in philosophy however gave him another uncertainty, and he felt as if his feet are not certainly touching to the ground. About that time, he entered the gate of Zen monastery, and his philosophy (such as Denken des Denkens in Hegel) transcended into the “post-philosophical” realm where philosophy was no more mere philosophy but Lebensphilosophie. Through his lifelong practice of Zazen meditation, Nishitani seems to have enjoyed his “Directness” through his existential touch with the Reality which had opened itself both within and transcending himself.
著者
西村 惠信
出版者
禅文化研究所
雑誌
禅文化 (ISSN:05143012)
巻号頁・発行日
no.239, pp.98-106, 2016
著者
西村 惠信
出版者
禅文化研究所
雑誌
禅文化 (ISSN:05143012)
巻号頁・発行日
no.236, pp.93-102, 2015
著者
西村 惠信
出版者
禅文化研究所
雑誌
禅文化 (ISSN:05143012)
巻号頁・発行日
no.235, pp.109-115, 2015
著者
西村 惠信
出版者
大法輪閣
雑誌
大法輪
巻号頁・発行日
vol.80, no.1, pp.72-77, 2013-01