Soku-hi ( ja, 即非) means "is and is not". The term is primarily used by the representatives of the
Kyoto School
The is the name given to the Japanese philosophical movement centered at Kyoto University that assimilated Western philosophy and religious ideas and used them to reformulate religious and moral insights unique to the East Asian cultural tradit ...
of
Eastern philosophy
Eastern philosophy or Asian philosophy includes the various philosophies that originated in East and South Asia, including Chinese philosophy, Japanese philosophy, Korean philosophy, and Vietnamese philosophy; which are dominant in East Asia, ...
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The logic of soku-hi or "is and is not" represents a balanced logic of symbolization reflecting sensitivity to the mutual determination of universality and particularity in nature, and a corresponding emphasis on nonattachment to
linguistic predicates and subjects as representations of the real.
G. S. Axtell. Comparative Dialectics: Nishida Kitaro's Logic of Place and Western Dialectical Thought
Philosophy East and West. Vol. 41, No. 2 (April 1991). pp. 163-184. University of Hawaii Press, Hawaii, USA.
See also
*Emptiness
Emptiness as a human condition is a sense of generalized boredom, social alienation and apathy. Feelings of emptiness often accompany dysthymia, depression (mood), depression, loneliness, anhedonia,
wiktionary:despair, despair, or other mental/em ...
, a concept in Kyoto School philosophy
*Nishida Kitaro
was a Japanese moral
philosopher, philosopher of mathematics and science, and religious scholar. He was the founder of what has been called the Kyoto School of philosophy. He graduated from the University of Tokyo during the Meiji period in 18 ...
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References and external links
Logic of soku-hi by D.T. Suzuki (poetry)Rude awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto school, & the question of nationalism
by James W. Heisig & John C. Maraldo. p. 24.
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