Q0310

Nishida Kitaro

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English

The good is the realization of personality.
Thinker Nishida Kitaro
School Kyoto School
Source An Inquiry into the Good
Theme Good
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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 good, 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?

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Same thinker

More from Nishida Kitaro

  1. Pure experience is the state of experience just as it is, without the slightest addition of deliberative discrimination.
  2. To experience means to know facts just as they are.
  3. Pure experience is identical with direct experience.

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Same theme

More on good

  1. What is not good for the hive is not good for the bee.
  2. To avoid all evil, to cultivate the good, and to cleanse one's mind—this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
  3. Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good.
  4. Seeing the good, be earnest to preserve it in yourself; seeing the not-good, be anxious to examine yourself.
  5. Conquer anger by non-anger; conquer evil by good.

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