Kitarō Nishida and Transpersonal Psychology

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  • 西田幾多郎とトランスパーソナル心理学
  • On His Treatise“The Intelligible World”
  • 論文「叡智的世界」をめぐって

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This paper explores Kitarō Nishida’s treaties“, The Intelligible World,”to illuminate implications of his thought as transpersonal psychology. First, it discusses Nishida's basic positions such as consciousness, place, logic of predicates, and absolute Nothingness. Then, it describes Nishida's systematic theory of consciousness and worlds. He refers to four levels of consciousness: the Universal of judgement, the Universal of self-consciousness, the Universal of intellectual intuition, and the Universal of absolute Nothingness. Self- determinations of these Universals engender multidimensional worlds; that is, the natural world, the world of consciousness, the intelligible world, and the religious world. The Universals have a relation in the way that the former Universal is encompassed by the later Universal. After the exposition of Nishida's theory, this paper compares it with transpersonal theories by Teilhard de Chardin, Sri Aurobindo, Ken Wilber, and Ramana Maharshi. Finally, it addresses some of the important implications of Nishida's thought to realize fullness of life by the twofold movement of self-transcendence and self-determination in consciousness.

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