著者

高谷 掌子

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.122-136, 2020 (Released:2022-03-11)

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This paper explores the meaning of neighborly love in the temporality as the “eternal now”, found in The Self-Aware Determination of Nothingness by Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitaro. Through the development of this work, Nishida shows considerable empathy toward the concepts of love and time by Augustine. However, whether these concepts can support neighborly love has been debated. Augustine limits love for neighbors by adding the condition “only in God”. However, God and neighbors exist in different temporalities; God is eternal, while neighbors are to be lost with time. Nishida develops this point by attempting to define time as “eternal now”. Inspired by Eckhart and Augustine, Nishida develops the concept of time as “eternal now” and “continuity of discontinuity” to depict the exact moment when continuous time emerges from eternity. In such a moment, the continuity of “I” as well as “you” is questioned. His “dialectic of self-love and other-love” leads to the conclusion that “I” can be myself and “you” can be yourself only by loving each other in the “eternal now”—the nexus where history and the creation of God begin.