World and Body

from Bergson’s theory of “Image” to Nishida’s “Dialectic World”

Abstract

This paper is intended as an investigation for the problem of Body in Bergson and Nishida. In the both philosophers, the problem of body plays an important role to overcome the conflict between materialism and spiritualism, between realism and idealism, between subjectivism and objectivism. Bergson’s theory of “Image” defines the representation perceived in function of the possible action of body. But the presence of “Image” rests irreductible. Moreover, when he attempt to include the material world in the “Duration”, he seems to confront with some difficulties. Criticizing Bergson, the philosophy in Nisida’s later period oppose the individual-time-consciousness against the universal-space-matter in dialectic schema, where the matter has expression. We can say that Nishida's, philosophy of Nothingness has possibility to surmount the conflict in the philosophy of “Being”.