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    It is not the case that Nishida's careful phrasing in 1945 was motivated by political self-protection

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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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    • 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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