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    Nishida's careful phrasing in 1945 was motivated by polit... — Carmelics
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    Nishida's careful phrasing in 1945 was motivated by political self-protection

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    • 1.Nishida was writing under a totalitarian government in 1945
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    • 2.Expressing certain views could result in imprisonment on grounds of lèse majesté
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    • 1.Nishida's late writings consistently deploy careful, qualified phrasing as a deliberate philosophical method rooted in his logic of 'absolute contradictory self-identity'.
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    • 2.Attributing stylistic caution to political fear conflates his established rhetorical practice with situational opportunism.
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    • 1.Nishida's 1945 essay 'The Logic of Place and a Religious Worldview' advances substantive critiques of State Shinto's immanentism incompatible with mere self-protective hedging.
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    • 2.A philosopher seeking only political protection would omit, not subtly subvert, ideologically dangerous theological distinctions.
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    Notable Defenders

    Albert Einsteincontemporaryrelativity theory
    Henri Bergsoncontemporary
    James W. HeisigcontemporaryHeisig 2001, 104
    contemporaryGödel's incompleteness theorem
    Nishida Kitarōcontemporary
    Nishida KitarōcontemporaryNKZ 13, 254
    Rolf ElberfeldcontemporaryElberfeld 1999, 71ff.
    Isaac NewtonmodernNewtonian theory
    Johann Gottlieb Fichtemodern
    Kitaro NishidamodernAn Inquiry Into the Good (1911); Intuition and Reflection in Self-Awareness (1917); Problems of Consciousness (1920); Art and Morality (1923)
    Kitaro NishidamodernNKZ VII, pp. 452–3
    Miki KiyoshimodernFormer student who critiqued Nishida on historical human action
    Nishida Kitaromodern
    Nishida KitarōmodernNKZ VIII, 76ff.
    Nishida KitarōmodernAn Inquiry Into the Good
    Nishida KitarōmodernProposed topoi as dynamic world-formation and later articulated the world as a dialectical universal
    Tanabe HajimemodernCritic who turned Nishida's attention to the historical dimension of reality
    Tosaka JunmodernFormer student who critiqued Nishida on historical human action

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    On the other hand, Nishida recognizes that religion is a social and cultural phenomenon, and that the contemporary individual is a subject of a state. He seems however to reverse any implied priority of culture over religion and state over individual: it is because culture is religious in its core that we find religion in every culture; and obedience to the nation must be based on true religious awareness. To be sure, writing under a totalitarian government in 1945, Nishida couches his statement
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