School · 1870 CE–1990 CE
Kyoto School
Philosophers associated with Kyoto brought Buddhist and East Asian resources into critical encounter with European idealism, phenomenology, religion, and philosophies of history.
Shared questions
- Can experience prior to subject-object division ground a transformed philosophical method?
Internal disagreements
- How Buddhist emptiness, self-awareness, historical action, and political responsibility should be related.
Key texts
- An Inquiry into the Good · 1911 — Nishida's first book, which the school's later work on absolute nothingness develops and departs from.
- Religion and Nothingness · 1961 — Nishitani's confrontation of nihilism with the Buddhist idea of emptiness.