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"I may be wrong of course, but the sense I get is that something resembling thinking (an inadequate word) goes on in the depths, largely outside the domain of language, and this happens whether one likes it or not".
You are not wrong. It seems "An inquiry into the good" by Nishida Kitarō will be for you.
Link: archive.org/details/inq…
"I may be wrong of course, but the sense I get is that something resembling thinking (an inadequate word) goes on in the depths, largely outside the domain of language, and this happens whether one likes it or not".
You are not wrong. It seems "An inquiry into the good" by Nishida Kitarō will be for you.
Link: https://archive.org/details/inquiryintogood0000nish/page/n9/mode/2up
I think I am going to want to read the Kyoto school again. Thank you for the reminder.
You're welcome. It seems that William James was moving in this direction, and so was Bergson. There are a lot of threads. "Pure experience" is what inspires me, but I don't think anyone has succeeded in the wording. It's too foggy. Our language is a problem, especially the damn nouns.
Dmitry- Long ago I read--or tried to, anyway--a number of books from the Kyoto School, e.g Religion and Nothingness, The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism and also An Inquiry into the Good among a few others. At the time, though I made my way through to the end these books I wasn't sure what I had understood when I finally put them down. Recently they came back to mind.
I am groping towards what one could possibly mean by the term "radical contemplation" but this idea of thought beyond thought (aka thinking no-thought) is part of it. At least I think it is.
-Jack