Kyoto School
Description
From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
"The Kyoto School (Kyōto-gakuha) is a group of 20th century Japanese thinkers who developed original philosophies by creatively drawing on the intellectual and spiritual traditions of East Asia, those of Mahāyāna Buddhism in particular, as well as on the methods and content of Western philosophy."
(https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kyoto-school/)
More information
- "After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions:
- How should the Kyoto School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute nothingness,” and
- how did the Kyoto School philosophers variously develop this Eastern inspired idea in dialogue and debate with Western thought and with one another?
- What are the basics of their political writings, and the basis of the controversy surrounding them?
- What is the legacy of the Kyoto School for cross-cultural thinking?"