Nishida kitaro biography of rory

Nishida Kitaro (西田 幾多郎, Nishida Kitarō') (1870 – 1945) was a prominent Japanese philosopher of the Meiji era. Nishida Kitaro engaged in an effort to translate Eastern philosophy, especially Zen Buddhism, into Western philosophical concepts. He worked in an environment of contradiction between traditional Japanese culture and the influx of Western materialism, industrialism, philosophy and Christianity, and a difficult personal life. For the first time in modern Japanese philosophical history, Nishida successfully formulated a highly original and distinctive philosophy which had a significant influence on many intellectuals of the modern period. Nishida founded what has been called the Kyoto School of philosophy. The Kyoto School has produced many unique philosophers, including Tanabe Hajime and Nishitani Keiji. Nishida, like his close friend D.T. Suzuki, developed a unique system of thought by assimilating Western philosophy into the traditions of Far Eastern thought, and in Kitaro biography!