Behind our concrete phenomena of consciousness, the superconscious the infinite is contained. Consciousness is not merely in “time of -,” but “time” is established through the active unification of consciousness.
To recall the past is to intuit the past, although we are thought to intuit only the present. What is repeated in memory is not the senses, but the development of what was supersensory behind the senses.
From the standpoint of a truly subject-object congruent intuition, everything is the present, and “time” disappears into it. What is directly given to constructive thought is this infinitely deep world of intuition.
The concepts of “pure experience,” “intuition,” “will,” and “the unity of master and guest,” which form the core of Nishida’s philosophy, are discussed in depth from the perspective of epistemology. Especially impressive is the emphasis on the workings of the superconscious and supertemporal that underlie conscious phenomena, and the attempt to find the essence of intuition in them.
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