Abstract
My primary concern in this thesis is to elucidate the meaning of intuition in the philosophy of Nishida Kitarô. It is my view that Nishida's philosophy is trying to rediscover the meaning of the daily life in this world. Under this intention his theory of intuition plays an important role.I focus on the discussion of his ”pure experience” and ”acting intuition.” In the first section I explicate the basic meaning of intuition as used by Nishida. According to him, intuition is a direct grasping of daily life in this world without the mediation of reflective thought. This distinguishes intuition from perception, which presupposes a subject-object dichotomy. In section two I try to reconstruct his philosophy of pure experience according to a group of concepts-differentiation and non-differentiation, which is, in my view, the basic structure of our daily experience. In section three I turn to his concept of ”acting intuition.” Acting-intuition means not the opposition between action and intuition, but their mutual generation. Intuition is emphasized in this context as a creative action in the historical world. Finally in section four I try to expound some possible horizons that are opened by Nishida's theory of intuition.