Round 11: Tossup 8

A thinker from this country placed consciousness in a “transcendental predicate plane” and synthesized “acting” and “seeing” as “active intuition.” The essay “What Is Religion?” opens a book from this country that analyzes Meister Eckhart’s negative theology as a form of nihilism. A thinker from this country wrote “The Logic of Place and the Religious Worldview” and theorized a fundamental “pure experience.” A Heidegger-influenced school from this country included a thinker who theorized “absolute nothingness” (10[1])in An Inquiry into the Good. Ideas from this country involving impermanence include one that translates to “pathos of things” (10[1])and a rhyming aesthetic principle that praises flaws like a chipped cup. For 10 points, name this country whose “way of the warrior” is called bushidō. ■END■

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