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    A philosophy that treats absolute nothingness as an uncha... — Carmelics
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    A philosophy that treats absolute nothingness as an unchanging basis or enveloping 'place' transcending dialectical interactions falls back into a metaphysics of being.

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    • 1.Nishida's own late work recognizes that 'place of absolute nothingness' risks reification, prompting his shift to 'absolute contradictory self-identity'.
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    • 2.Any stable metaphysical substratum—even one named 'nothingness'—performs the ontological function Heidegger attributes to presence, collapsing the distinction.
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    • 3.Derrida's critique of negative theology shows that privileging an ineffable ground structurally reproduces the onto-theological move it claims to escape.
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    • 1.Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka explicitly rejects making sunyata itself a foundation, warning that reifying emptiness is the gravest philosophical error.
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    • 2.A nothingness that unchangingly 'envelops' dialectical process is functionally equivalent to Aristotle's unmoved mover: a being defined by its immunity to becoming.
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    • 1.If absolute nothingness is made into an unchanging foundation or enveloping system of reality, it functions as a kind of substantial ground.
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    • 2.Any philosophy that posits a substantial, unchanging ground is a metaphysics of being, not of nothingness.
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    But the other major concern of Tanabe’s critique of Nishida was that, insofar as absolute nothingness is made into an unchanging basis or enveloping “place” of a system of reality, and insofar as it is seen as transcending the dialectical interactions among beings, then such a philosophy ends up falling back into a metaphysics of being after all. In order to radically think the idea of absolute nothingness, Tanabe argues, we must conceive of it rather in terms of “absolute mediation” or “absolut
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