Nihilism as a preamble of vacuity in the philosophy of Nishitani’s religion

Abstract

The article commences with an analysis of Nishitani’s position in the Kyoto school and its weight on Western culture. Analogically, the intent of the text is to favor the distinction between the concepts of nihilism and vacuity, both present in Nishitani, particularily in his concept about religion; in such a sense, the function of experiencing Nihilism and the inappropriate religious strategy of eluding the experiencing of vacuity, with which the authentic transcending experience is hindered. Contrarily, it is proposed that when religión is a facultative path, it steers towards the notion of an absolute nothingness or towards a nothingness of the Deity, an obligatory preamble for the comprehension of Nishitani’s spiritual philosophy