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Name | 西田 幾多郎 Nishida Kitarō | Era | 20th century philosophy | Region | Japanese philosophy | School | Kyoto School | Main interests | Zen Buddhism, Moral philosophy | Notable ideas | Logic of Basho (non-dualistic concrete logic), Absolute Nothingness | Influenced by | Henri Bergson, William James, Immanuel Kant, G.W.F. Hegel, Josiah Royce, Edmund Husserl, Søren Kierkegaard|influenced=Hajime Tanabe, Nishitani Keiji, Shin'ichi Hisamatsu, Watsuji Tetsuro, Kuki Shūzō, Shimizu Hiroshi, Morita Shiryu, Kimura Bin, Nakamura Yujiro... | Influenced | Hajime Tanabe, Nishitani Keiji, Shin'ichi Hisamatsu, Watsuji Tetsuro, Kuki Shūzō, Shimizu Hiroshi, Morita Shiryu, Kimura Bin, Nakamura Yujiro... |
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|} was a prominent Japanese philosopher, founder of what has been called the Kyoto School of philosophy. He graduated from The University of Tokyo during the Meiji period in 1894 with a degree in philosophy. He was named professor of the Fourth High School in Ishikawa Prefecture in 1899 and later became professor of philosophy at Kyoto University. Nishida retired in 1927. Later in his retirement, in 1940, he was awarded the Order of Culture (文化勲章, bunka kunshō). He participated in establishing the (千葉工業大学, Chiba Institute of Technology) from 1940. Nishida Kitaro died at the age of seventy-five of a renal infection. His grave is located at Reiun'in (霊雲院, Reiun'in), a temple in the Myōshin-ji compound in Kyoto.
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