Keiji Nishitani, and Schelling: On Philosophy, Zen & The Crisis of Ground with Dr. Jason Wirth.

The Following video is a continuation of my series on Classical German philosophy and Post-Kantian thought. In this episode of the Young Idealist, I am joined by a very special guest: Dr. Jason Wirth who is a professor of philosophy at Seattle University and works and teaches in the areas of Continental Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Environmental Philosophy.
Dr. Wirth helps navigate the viewer through the complex life and philosophy of the brilliant Japanese philosopher Keiji Nishitani. Dr. Wirth also gives us a detailed historical account of both Japan and the rich philosophers surrounding the Kyoto School.
As the discussion takes on a life of it's own the two philosophical worlds surrounding both Nishitani and Schelling, come to life. Dr. Wirth brings both Nishitani and Schelling together to speak about the overlapping connections, experiences and lives of the philosophers. Between Philosophy and Zen both Schelling and Nishitani are concerned with the hard existential questions surrounding a life, devoted to the fundamental crisis of ground.
Dr. Jason M. Wirth is professor of philosophy at Seattle University and works and teaches in the areas of Continental Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Environmental Philosophy.
His recent books include Nietzsche and Other Buddhas: Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy (Indiana 2019), Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis (SUNY 2017), a monograph on Milan Kundera (Commiserating with Devastated Things, Fordham 2015), Schelling’s Practice of the Wild (SUNY 2015), and the co-edited volume (with Bret Davis and Brian Schroeder), Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School (Indiana 2011).
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[@tonymitchell1461]

So clear so coherent so profound. I will be coming back for replays. thanks so much or organising this one.

[@TheYoungIdealist]

You are very welcome Tony! I am glad you enjoyed the video. Dr. Wirth is a brilliant scholar and it is always amazing to listen to him speak on a topic he is very passionate about.

[@Californiansurfer]

❤❤1995. I was majoring in psychology and had to take a philosophy class which lead me to Zen Buddhism and I loved the deep dive which 2000. I received my degree in electronics which internet was just starting. Today, I am going back and found Nishitani and Nishida and didn’t know how much they did. This is my new adventure. Thank you for your work. I would love to learn more and when can I go. I belong to Seicho no ie Gardena Ca. They believe in Shinto. Buddhism and Christianity Masarou Taniguichi I am back. 2012 to 20022. I worked in jeffersonville indiana , Mishawaka indiana , elkhart indiana and shepriveill kentucy.. the weather. I made so many friends and helped so many people and broke so many stereotypes.. Frank Martinez Downey California ❤

[@clumsydad7158]

amazing - wonderful cross-cultural convo, and one where most of us have always realized that east and west are talking about similar things, and by getting away from oneself and one's culture, one finds oneself again, and in that, as Dr. Wirth discusses, the investigation of ground and meaning and what this human project and life on earth project is all a part of. religion is philosophy is spirituality; and our project has no end but the continual thinking and rethinking the nature of reality as we experience it and working our ways to new meanings and moralities

[@ramyafennell4615]

This discussion was phenomenal, brilliant. In breadth and depth and you both blended so well your questions and answers. I wish this could go viral in the non dual religio philosophical context. As an advaitin who functions thro Enquiry, who loved discovering Schelling, who has heard of Nishitani, and is currently imbibing the Cloud of Unknowing, this discussion just vibrated the mystery of the ground of being. Profound thanks to your most erudite guest...and thank you...your channel always catches my appreciation.

[@russellmason5095]

Great conversation guys. Thank you both!

[@TheYoungIdealist]

Thank you, Russell!

[@Jedi_Mind_]

Great as always Chris,

[@p89trd]

Have you thought about putting these online in audio as a podcast?

[@TheYoungIdealist]

I have never really thought about that! Do you think that would be a good idea?

[@p89trd]

@@TheYoungIdealist for sure. It's a good listen for a walk I think.

[@Jedi_Mind_]

Chris ,I’ve been wanting to ask you something. I know that you had mentioned in the past that the freedom essay is your absolute favorite from a Schelling . I’m curious to know what is your assessment of the Clara dialogue ? What is your evaluation as well as your assessment of its artistic and poetic value as a dialogue

[@RolfGoebel]

Thank your this passionate and deeply illuminating lecture! You touched on this briefly at various times of the discussion, but I wonder if Nishitani's notion of kyomu (虚無), with its intriguingly doubling of the empty and the nothing, can be used to explicate, interrogate, or even broaden Heidegger's "Sein," especially the late version of it as the "Seyn"? -- You also alluded briefly to Nishitani's Zen-inflected stress on the sensuous experience of the pure now. How does this tally more precisely with the absolute groundlessness of the Nothing? Can we use Nishitani's thought to rethink the "now" away from the facile self-help book version towards a radically unsettling but perhaps more meaningful experience of the "now" as a kairotic intertwining of presence and absence, positivity and nothingness?

[@clumsydad7158]

yes, our human cultures have yet to embrace these ideas, as we are still driven by a material madness and wrestling with our own wills and confusions. human culture still in an early to middle period.