Kitaro Nishida Philosopher

Kitaro Nishida (西田幾多郎, Nishida Kitarō, May 19, 1870 – June 7, 1945) was a prominent Japanese philosopher, founder of what has been called the Kyoto School of philosophy. He graduated from The University of Tokyo during the Meiji period in 1894 with a degree in philosophy. He was named professor of the Fourth High School in Ishikawa Prefecture in 1899 and later became professor of philosophy at Kyoto University. Nishida retired in 1927. Later in his retirement, in 1940, he was awarded the Order of Culture (文化勲章, bunka kunshō). He participated in establishing the (千葉工業大学, Chiba Institute of Technology) from 1940. Nishida Kitaro died at the age of seventy-five of a renal infection. His grave is located at Reiun'in (霊雲院, Reiun'in), a temple in the Myōshin-ji compound in Kyoto.

Personal facts

Birth date	January 01, 1870
Birth place	Japan , Kanazawa Ishikawa , Ishikawa Prefecture
Date of death	January 01, 1945
Place of death	Japan , Kamakura Kanagawa , Kanagawa Prefecture
Main interest	Ethics Zen

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influenced	Keiji Nishitani
influenced by	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Immanuel Kant
notable idea	Logic
philosophical school	Kyoto School
region	Japanese philosophy