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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” (10[1])and theorized a fundamental “pure experience.” A Heidegger-influenced school (10[2])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” and a rhyming aesthetic principle that praises flaws (10[1])like a (10[1])chipped cup. (10[1])For 10 points, name this country whose “way of the warrior” is called (10[1])bushidō. ■END■

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