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    Absolute nothingness must be thoroughly mediated by the r... — Carmelics
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    Absolute nothingness must be thoroughly mediated by the relative self

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    • 1.The absolute subject of Other-power is absolute nothingness
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    • 2.Absolute nothingness, as absolute, cannot be self-contained but requires mediation through what is relative
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    • 1.Plotinus's One transcends all relation and mediation precisely because it exceeds the dyadic structure of subject-object cognition.
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    • 2.If absolute nothingness requires mediation through the relative self, it becomes dependent on finitude and thereby forfeits its unconditioned status.
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    • 3.A truly absolute principle cannot be constitutively incomplete without its other, or it collapses into a relational absolute—a contradiction in terms.
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    • 1.Madhyamaka Buddhism holds that śūnyatā is not mediated by any self, relative or absolute, since the very concept of a mediating self is itself empty.
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    • 2.Nishida's claim smuggles a residual subject-structure into absolute nothingness, which Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā explicitly dissolves through prasaṅga argumentation.
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    In this later text, Philosophy as Metanoetics, written around the same time as Nishida was elaborating his own kenotic idea of a self-negating absolute nothingness, Tanabe, in a putative critique of Nishida, also writes: “Because the absolute subject of Other-power is absolute nothingness … it must be thoroughly mediated by the relative self. In contrast to a mere ‘self-identity of absolute contradictories’, only that which entails the absolute existential mediation of the death and resurrection
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