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An Inquiry into the Good

Nishida Kitaro·1911·Japanese

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Nishida's first and most read book, introducing pure experience: the moment before a perceiving self and a perceived object split apart. Blends years of Zen meditation practice with the technical vocabulary of Western philosophy.

To experience means to know facts just as they are, to know in accordance with facts by completely relinquishing one's own fabrications. What we usually refer to as experience is adulterated with some sort of thought, so by pure I am referring to the state of experience just as it is without the least addition of deliberative discrimination.

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