20th century · 1870–1945
Who influenced Kitarō Nishida?
Influences
Founded the Kyoto School: pure experience before the subject/object split.
Kitarō Nishida was influenced by Georg W. F. Hegel and William James. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Kitarō Nishida?
Kitarō Nishida, a Japanese philosopher of ethics, mathematics, science and religion, founded what came to be called the Kyoto School of philosophy. He graduated in philosophy from the University of Tokyo in 1894 and taught at Kyoto University until 1927.
In 1940 he received the Order of Culture. His friend D. T. Suzuki arranged his funeral in Kamakura in 1945.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Kitarō Nishida?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Georg W. F. Hegel 1770–1831
- William James 1842–1910
The line of teachers behind Kitarō Nishida
The longest documented line of influence ending at Kitarō Nishida runs 23 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- F. W. J. Schelling
- Georg W. F. Hegel
- Kitarō Nishida
Two steps away from Kitarō Nishida
Indirect influences
Contemporaries of Kitarō Nishida
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Kitarō Nishida, with no direct line between them.
- Nikolay Lossky 1870–1965
- Sergei Bulgakov 1871–1944
- Bertrand Russell 1872–1970
- W. E. B. Du Bois 1868–1963
- G. E. Moore 1873–1958
- Max Scheler 1874–1928
- Nikolai Berdyaev 1874–1948
- Ernst Cassirer 1874–1945
Kitarō Nishida by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 96
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 29 — #76 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Schools and lineages
- Non-Western: Confucius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Mencius, Xunzi, Nagarjuna, Adi Shankara, Ramanuja, Dōgen, Kitarō Nishida, Muhammad Iqbal
Questions about Kitarō Nishida
- Who influenced Kitarō Nishida?
- Georg W. F. Hegel and William James.
- Who did Kitarō Nishida influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Kitarō Nishida.
- When did Kitarō Nishida live?
- 1870–1945. The map files Kitarō Nishida under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Kitarō Nishida card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Kitarō Nishida in 29 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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