Following the large-scale discovery of undisclosed materials by Kitaro Nishida, one of Japan's leading philosophers, the Kitaro Nishida Memorial Philosophy Museum in Ishikawa Prefecture has launched a research materialization project.The Philosophy Museum, Kyoto University, and Kanazawa University have collaborated to promote restoration and reprinting projects, and in March 2018, published a report summarizing the project.
In the fall of 2015, Nishida's handwritten materials, including 50 notebooks, were discovered at the bereaved family's house of Kitaro Nishida.It is the largest discovery in 1965 years since the compilation of Nishida's complete works (50nd edition, XNUMX) by Nishida's direct disciples, including materials that seemed to be taken by Nishida when he was a student at the Imperial University. rice field.
The discovered materials were restored with the cooperation of the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, and then reprinted in collaboration with Professor Shin Hayashi of the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, and Professor Masahide Mori of the Human Sciences Department, Kanazawa University College of Humanities and Social Sciences. And the contents became clear little by little.
Kitaro Nishida was assigned to Kyoto University from the Fourth High School in Kanazawa and is active as an original philosopher.Nishida's book has now been translated into more than eight countries and is being studied around the world.In particular, "Study of Goodness", which was written in Kanazawa and published immediately after being assigned to Kyoto University, is known as the first philosophical book written by the Japanese.
Among the materials discovered this time, there are lecture notes on "religious studies" and "ethics" immediately after being assigned to Kyoto University, which is a powerful way to clarify how Nishida developed his ideas from "Study of Goodness". It is expected to be a clue.
