An Inquiry into the Good

✍ Scribed by Kitarō Nishida

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 228
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An Inquiry into the Good represented the foundation of Nishida’s philosophy — reflecting both his deep study of Zen Buddhism and his thorough analysis of Western philosophy — and established its author as the foremost Japanese philosopher of this century. This important new translation presents a lucid and accurate rendition of Nishida’s ideas.

✦ Table of Contents

An Inquiry into the Good
Contents
Introduction by Masao Abe
A Note on the Translation
Preface by Kitaro Nishida
PART I: PURE EXPERIENCE
1. Pure Experience
2. Thinking
3. Will
4. Intellectual Intuition
PART II: REALITY
5. The Starting Point of the Inquiry
6. Phenomena of Consciousness Are the Sole Reality
7. The True Features of Reality
8. True Reality Constantly Has the Same Formative Mode
9. The Fundamental Mode of True Reality
10. The Sole Reality
11. The Development of Reality through Differentiation
12. Nature
13. Spirit
14. God as Reality
PART III: THE GOOD
15. Conduct (I)
16. Conduct (II)
17. The Freedom of the Will
18. A Study of Conduct in Terms of Value
19. Theories of Ethics (I)
20. Theories of Ethics (II)
21. Theories of Ethics (III)
22. Theories of Ethics (IV)
23. The Good (Energetism)
24. The Good as a Unity of Personality
25. The Motivation of Good Conduct (The Form of the Good)
26. The Goal of Good Conduct (The Content of the Good)
27. Perfect Good Conduct
PART IV: RELIGION
28. The Religious Demand
29. The Essence of Religion
30. God
31. God and the World
32. Knowledge and Love
Select Bibliography
Index

✦ Subjects

zen buddhism;comparative philosophy;religion