Q0308

Nishida Kitaro

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English

Pure experience is the state of experience just as it is, without the slightest addition of deliberative discrimination.
Thinker Nishida Kitaro
School Kyoto School
Source An Inquiry into the Good
Theme Experience
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Source context

This English passage is associated with An Inquiry into the Good, within the tradition of Kyoto School. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of experience, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Nishida Kitaro's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

How to cite this quotation

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More from Nishida Kitaro

  1. To experience means to know facts just as they are.
  2. The good is the realization of personality.
  3. Pure experience is identical with direct experience.

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More on experience

  1. Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.
  2. Their being is to be perceived.
  3. For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other.
  4. Consciousness…does not appear to itself chopped up in bits…It is nothing jointed; it flows.
  5. Experience is not a veil that shuts man off from nature; it is a means of penetrating continually further into the heart of nature.

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