Mapping the Notion of Everydayness in Japanese Philosophy: the Case of Suzuki Daisetsu and Nishida Kitarō
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper investigates the semantic field of “everydayness” in the extended constellation of the Kyoto School. We examine the concepts of “ordinary mind,” “ground of the ordinary,” and “everydayness” in the thoughts of Suzuki Daisetsu and Nishida Kitarō in the 1930s and 1940s. We interpret this semantic field historically, focusing on the modernization of Buddhism as a process of philosophical synthesis between two conflicting dimensions of everydayness, which we call the epistemological and the ontological. It will be shown that the modernization of Buddhism, in a certain sense, formulated itself as a kind of modern “religiosity” through dealing with these two disparate aspects of “everydayness.”
Source: PSYCHOLOGIA
Authors: Tekla NANUASHVILI, Fernando WIRTZ
Institution: Kyoto University
Language: English
Topic: Indian and Buddhist Studies
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4408755258