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In principle, when we distinguish being from beings, we transcend the realm of things that are. It is not that we go to some other world beyond the world we know, or enter into some different realm of beings. Such notions constitute, for Heidegger, a vulgar form of metaphysics with which true philosophy (metaphysics as science) has nothing in common. Philosophy does not go beyond beings ontically to other beings that dwell beyond or behind. It transcends beings ontologically in the direction of being.

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Through the sincerity cultivated by Christian morality the values and ideals established by that morality itself are revealed as fictions.

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In the religiosity of Zen Buddhism, demythologization of the mythical and existentialization of the scientific belong to one and the same process.

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Previous ideals and values undermine themselves and collapse into nothing precisely as a result of the effort to make them consummate and exhaustive.

Keiji Nishitani

Keiji Nishitani

Keiji Nishitani

Born: February 27, 1900

Died: November 24, 1990 (aged 90)

Bio: Keiji Nishitani was a Japanese philosopher of the Kyoto School and a disciple of Kitarō Nishida. In 1924 Nishitani received a Ph.D. from Kyoto University for his dissertation "Das Ideale und das Reale bei Schelling und Bergson".

Known for:

Religion and Nothingness (1982)
The self-overcoming of nihilism (1990)
Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture
On Buddhism
La Religion y La NADA

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