La expresión poética del ser social y la naturaleza en Nishida Kitarô

Poetical expression of social being and nature in Nishida Kitarô

Abstract

A possible approach to the philosophy of Nishida Kitarô starts from the relationship between the material world, or nature, and the social world, which develops towards the formation of the historical world, which human beings inhabit. As Nishida writes, the historical world “develops from the material world to a world of living beings, and from a world of living beings, towards the world of human beings” (NKZ, IX: 172). Our human historical world is constructed through this space-time interrelationas a lived-space in which our human feelings and our will become manifest and which, through our poiesis, build the several particular worlds throughout the planet Earth, within an unfathomable cosmos. In this paper I endeavor to show some of the several aspects of Nishida’s thought concerning the environment as the condition for the events in the historical world
(VIII: 117), as well as his answer ‒both intellectual and emotional, both originating in reflection and in feeling‒, that can be seen in his thought and in his human relations within the natural, socio-political and cultural world in which he lived. These aspects can be seen in Nishida’s poetic expression, which has not been sufficiently studied even in Japan. However, its study allows us to approach his thought from a different perspective.

Keywords: Historical world; natural world; poetics; nature