Kapitel 6 Fichte und Nishida: Das Absolute und das absolute Nichts
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This article compares the theory of knowledge of Fichte with that of the Japanese Philosopher Kitaro Nishida and brings out an essential correspondence between them. Both philosophers are not satisfied with the usual epistemology which is based on the contraposition of subject and object, and consider it necessary to go beyond the scheme of the contraposition because it covers the truth of knowledge. They both diagnose that the scheme of contraposition stems from the objectification by the I, and suggest that the objectifying I should be nullified. According to the view that the I can be nullified only by the I itself, they take the selfnullification of the I as their theme. They think that the I does not vanish by selfnullification, but rather touches its own life which by its nature cannot be objectified. The Absolute of Fichte as well as the absolute Nothing of Nishida are characterizable as an unobjectifiable life which can be reached only by the selfnullification of the I.