抄録
Nishida Kitaro, summarizing his viewpoint of his earlier period, wrote that his standpoint was close to that of Fichte’s “consciousness”. And from this standpoint he treated the problem of differences and relations between knowledge, feeling, will, and then the world of art and that of moral. In his book ‘Art and Moral’he analyses the concepts of “aesthetic feeling”and “aesthetic imagination”by discussing the theories of Th.Lipps and H.Cohen. The principle which unites the “empathy”of H.Cohen and “anticipation of perception”is the principle of “anticipation of will” or “anticipation of action”by Nishida. According to Nishida, the real existence becomes cultural phenomenon when connected with the principle of “anticipation of action”as empathy, and then the real existence works freely. Thus aesthetic feeling is provided as working of actual will or as the expression of the stream of life in the artistic creation. From this definition come out two directions, that is “the standpoint of absolute will”and “action as an artistic creation”. The latter is connected with the concept of “active intuition”, which means “to see by working”. This concept can also be understood by the method of Japanese artistic training “KATA”or “ideal form”, or Buddhistic concept “GEDATSU” or “Nirvana through training”. In Nishida’s later writings, all the spiritual human activities and cultures are based on religious existence and woven into history.
