This paper discusses the affinity between the complete mysticism advocated by Henri Bergson in The Two Sources of Morality and Religion and the energetistm advocated by Kitaro Nishida in An Inquiry into the Good. Complete mysticism, indeed, is action, not contemplation, and energetism is the ethics centred on an action very similar to that which defines completed mysticism. Both are experiences of freedom that free in turn and both require a certain passivity, or receptivity, to the creative principle of the universe. The latter is the same as the self’s and intuition, i.e. a sympathy with the principle, is the way to grasp it and express it.
Henri Bergson's complete mysticism and Kitaro Nishida's energetism: an example of common intuition
CAMPO A
2023
Abstract
This paper discusses the affinity between the complete mysticism advocated by Henri Bergson in The Two Sources of Morality and Religion and the energetistm advocated by Kitaro Nishida in An Inquiry into the Good. Complete mysticism, indeed, is action, not contemplation, and energetism is the ethics centred on an action very similar to that which defines completed mysticism. Both are experiences of freedom that free in turn and both require a certain passivity, or receptivity, to the creative principle of the universe. The latter is the same as the self’s and intuition, i.e. a sympathy with the principle, is the way to grasp it and express it.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
