清沢満之における救済の証明――『有限無限録』を中心に――

抄録

The basic stance in Kiyozawa Manshiʼs 清沢満之 （1863-1903） Yūgen mugen roku 有限無限録 is that true morality is established by the idea from the Infinite that one should refrain from evil and do good. This can be said to have been derived from Kiyozawaʼs awareness of having been liberated. In Rōsenki 臘扇記, he questions his identity and concludes that he is “one who settles down just as he is” into the working of the Infinite, and that the Infinite endows him with the idea of refraining from evil and doing good as the source of morality.

In Kiyozawaʼs argument in Yūgen mugen roku, the Infinite takes the form of “sanctions” against the “transgressions” of finite beings, thereby causing them to cease such actions. These transgressions, in which one cannot do good or stop evil, are the opposite of the idea from the Infinite. Kiyozawa refers to this structure wherein the Infinite is involved with inhibition of “transgressions” as “the true disciple of the buddha.” This shows that the central issue in this work is Kiyozawaʼs attempt to objectively prove that his own experience of liberation was liberation through the original vow of Amida Buddha.