Episode #216 ... The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism - Kyoto School pt. 1 - Nishitani

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  Hello, everyone.

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  I'm Steven West.

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  I hope you love the show today.

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  So, since about episode 211,

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  we've been talking about the work of Frederick Nietzsche and the fallout of him supposedly smashing all the idols from the history of Western philosophy with a hammer.

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  Well,

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  the guy we're talking about today is actually comically in line with basically everything we've been talking about on the show

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  since we did that episode.

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  He's a man who was a big fan of Nietzsche's work.

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  In fact, as the story goes,

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  he used to carry around a copy of The Spokes Are A Theuster with him pretty much everywhere he went in the early stages of his life.

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  More than that,

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  he's a man who traveled all the way to Germany to study under the professorship of Martin Heidegger during the 1930s.

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  And even more than that,

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  he's a man that was the principal chair of philosophy and religion at Kyoto University for more than 20 years.

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  A position where he deeply engaged with the mystical tradition of the West we just talked about with a special focus on the theologian Meister Eckhart.

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  See, it's like I planned it or something.

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  That the man we're talking about today is a member of what's now become known as the famous Kyoto School out of Kyoto,

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