State, Ethnic people and Self-creation of the world

Abstract

The idea of the state, in Nishida’s latter thought, cannot be analyzed without viewing the big change in his idea of ethnic people. By this change, Nishida considers the state is the community, which can be possible by denying thoroughly our desire to find substance(substratum)that requires nothing else, nor the action of the other, in order to exist. Nishida says, in the actual world and human Life, all the entities (including past and future entities)exist as far as they interact each other. In the world, every entity requires the action of the other; any substances cannot exist. So in the interaction, they act as themselves one another uniquely and individually(個性的に)in every present. It means that the actual world creates the world itself uniquely and individually in every moment. For Nishida, the state-community will be made when this“individual self-creation of the world”(世界の個性的な自己創造)has realized well in human life. Therefore, each of the states exists, by becoming a focus of the individual self-creation of the world where no substance exists, to have all subjects(i.e., communities)and all individuals(their members)realize the individual self-creation of themselves.