Nihility and emptiness
pp. 199-216
in: Masakatsu Fujita (ed), The philosophy of the Kyoto school, Berlin, Springer, 2018Abstract
In contemporary nihilism the nihility stretches, so to speak, into the site of God's being, and in this way becomes an abyss. And upon this godless nihility that has become an abyss, all life, not only biological life and souls, but even spiritual and personal life, manifests the form of something fundamentally meaningless. At the same time, it is furthermore claimed that human beings can only truly become free and independent and become true subjects when they resolutely ground themselves upon this abyssal nihility.