抄録
In An Inquiry into the Good, Nishida accords great significance to
personality, seeing it as the root of all value and as one of the concepts
central to ethics grounded in a theory of pure experience. “Personality is the
basis of all value, and in the universe only personality possesses absolute
value.” (NKZ1, 122.) On the other hand, when he contends that “The sphere
of consciousness is never limited to the individual person, for the individual
person is no more than a small system within consciousness” (NKZ1,
32), Nishida makes an impersonalist argument against limiting the scope
of consciousness and life to the individual personality. Using the newly
discovered ‘Lecture Notes on Ethics’ as a guide, in this paper I will seek not
only to clarify the implications and scope of Nishida’s theory of personality
but also to examine the position that the concept of personality has in his
theory of pure experience.
