2024-12-07
47 分钟Hello everyone, I'm Steven West, this is Philosophize This.
So I always get emails after an episode's released.
But after last episode, there was a notable increase in two specific kinds of emails I get.
One was an increase in the number of people saying the episode led them to a pretty deep shift in the ways they're thinking about things.
That K.
G.
Nishitani is opening them up to a whole new interesting way of exploring what it is to exist.
The other was an increase, and the number of people saying they don't quite get it.
That while they appreciate it and are sticking with it, that it's such a different way of thinking,
that it's difficult to wrap my mind around what's truly being said here.
Just felt the need to acknowledge this before we talk about Nishitani's views on religion today.
I mean, I know it must sound like a broken record lately.
Be sure to listen to every episode from 211 up until this one if you want to understand what's being talked about.
But look, it's not like I'm trying to annoy you, or to be overly complicated.
It's just a gift I have, really.
No, but there's episodes of this podcast where we're doing something different.
Some episodes are trying to cover things a little more broadly across a thinker's entire work.
It casts a wide net.
That's what some of the episodes we do do.
But those are always going to be episodes that can never hit you as hard as when we talk about more the context of where a thinker's coming from,