Abstract:
The subject of this article is the investigation of the concept of nothingness in the thought of Heidegger and Nishida. Heidegger, a legacy holder of Western philosophy, fundamentally addresses the issue of nothingness in the book 'What is Metaphysics?'. According to him, the concept of nothingness does not only arise from the concept of negation; rather, it is more primordial than that. Nothingness in Heidegger's thought is closely related to existential characteristics, or what Heidegger calls the existentialities of Dasein. Heideggerian nothingness is revealed through anxiety-awareness, through which, in the process of the fading away of all beings into a totality, Dasein finds itself alone in a terrifying mist. Accordingly, the question of nothingness is as important as the question of being. Nishida, who is a legacy holder of the Buddhist tradition, also places the issue of nothingness at the center of attention. Nishidian nothingness has a largely mystical-Buddhist flavor. In his view, nothingness is the foundation of everything. Nishidian nothingness has a concrete and this-worldly aspect, but at the same time, it is beyond beings. In this respect, nothingness is the determinative of being. In this writing, by analyzing cases such as anxiety-awareness and being-in-the-world in Heidegger's philosophy and pure experience, Sunyata, and the place of nothingness in Nishida's thought, we have compared the concept of nothingness in these two philosophers.
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In this writing, by analyzing cases such as anxiety-awareness and being-in-the-world in Heidegger's philosophy and pure experience, Sunyata, and the place of nothingness in Nishida's thought, we have addressed the comparison of the concept of nothingness in these two philosophers.
Heidegger, Nishida, nothingness, anxiety-awareness, Buddhism, Sunyata, place of nothingness Introduction Throughout the history of philosophy, the issue of "nothingness 1" has been raised in various periods of time; whether in a negative capacity (meaning its negation) or an affirmative one (meaning a fundamental reality).
Heidegger says in "What is Metaphysics?": Anxiety-awareness nails down speech; because entities slip away and sink into the whole, and for this reason, nothingness attacks from all sides, and in the face of it, the utterance of the word "is" is silenced in every way.
17) Louis Roy writes in the book Mystical Awareness: "Nishitani believes that although Europeans of the past placed subjectivism (Subjectum) as the basis for understanding human existence, Anatman [which is the ontological basis of existence in the East] is a non-subjective concept.
Heidegger enters the discussion with an ontological approach and by posing the essential characteristics of Dasein, such as being-in-the-world and anxiety-awareness; whereas Nishida enters with a kind of Buddhist insight and with concepts such as non-self, the undetermined self, sunyata, and pure experience.
Nishida's descriptions of pure experience are very similar to the state of Dasein which, in the course of anxiety-awareness, has encountered nothingness.
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