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  1. Kitarō Nishida (西田 幾多郎, Nishida Kitarō, May 19, [2] 1870 – June 7, 1945) was a Japanese moral philosopher, philosopher of mathematics and science, and religious scholar. He was the founder of what has been called the Kyoto School of philosophy. He graduated from the University of Tokyo during the Meiji period in 1894 with a degree in philosophy.

  2. Feb 25, 2005 · Nishida Kitarō was the most significant and influential Japanese philosopher of the twentieth-century.

  3. Jun 13, 2024 · Nishida Kitarō (born June 17, 1870, near Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan—died June 7, 1945, Kamakura) was a Japanese philosopher who exemplified the attempt by the Japanese to assimilate Western philosophy into the Oriental spiritual tradition.

  4. Feb 25, 2005 · Nishida Kitarô was the most significant and influential Japanese philosopher of the twentieth-century.

  5. Jun 13, 2024 · Nishida Kitarō - Philosopher, Existentialism, Zen Buddhism: Nishida says in his memoirs that he thought of his life in terms of a change of position with the blackboard as an axis: in the first half of his life he sat at a desk facing the blackboard, while in the latter half he sat with the blackboard behind him.

  6. Feb 27, 2006 · The progenitor of the Kyoto School is Nishida Kitarō [ 1] (1870–1945). In the Meiji period (1868–1912), when Japan reopened to the rest of the world after more than two centuries of national isolation, a generation of scholars devoted themselves to importing Western academic fields of inquiry, including “philosophy.”.

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  8. Nishida Kitarō’s (1870–1945) first book, An Inquiry into the Good ( Zen no kenkyū, 1911), is a monumental work that marks the beginning of the independent development of philosophy as an academic discipline in Japan, following the period of its importation from the West.