Question

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 (10[1])nihilism. (10[1])A thinker from this country wrote (10[1])“The Logic of Place and the Religious Worldview” (10[2])and theorized a fundamental “pure experience.” A Heidegger-influenced school (10[3])from this country (10[1])included a thinker who theorized “absolute nothingness” (10[4])in An Inquiry (10[1])into the Good. Ideas from this country involving impermanence include (10[1])one (10[1])that translates to “pathos of things” (10[1])and a rhyming aesthetic principle that praises flaws (10[1])like a (10[1])chipped (10[1])cup. (10[5])For 10 points, (10[2])name this country whose (10[1])“way of the warrior” is called (10[1])bushidō. (10[2])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Japan [or Nippon; or Nihon] (The philosophers clued are Keiji Nishitani and Kitaro Nishida, from the Kyoto School. The principles in the penultimate sentence are mono no aware and wabi-sabi.)
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