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Nishi uses the techniques of modern scholarship, of modern thinking, to articulate the inner meaning of his tradition, while at the same time asserting its fundamental superiority. Yet Nishi cannot achieve this move by recasting his tradition as
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driven love of truth itself. Over and against such "selfish" “learning for the sake of learning”, Nishi claims that
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