Resumen de Nishida's An Inquiry into the good and japanese and german Thought in the late nineteenth century
It is widely accepted that pure experience preceding the separation of subject and object in thought as it appears in Nishida Kitarō’s first work, An Inquiry into the Good, refers to Zen Buddhist spiritual awakening. The philosophy he proposed is, therefore, Eastern in nature. At the same time, Nishida’s thinking in this work shows strong affinities with Wundt’s work at several points. At that time, the Japanese philosophical community was strongly influenced by trends in Germany, which drove Nishida’s interest in ontology and scientific psychology. Accordingly, he tried to work out his philosophy in reliance on Wundt. As such, the defining characteristics of his philosophy should be sought not in something “Oriental” but in the understanding of pure experience as the self-development of a “peerless entity” in terms of which Nishida attempts to explain all things
