section_path: Views/Modern philosophy/Nishida (1870–1945)
section_name: Nishida (1870–1945)
paragraph_text: Nishida (1870–1945)
  
  According to Kitaro Nishida, "knowledge of things in the world begins with the differentiation of unitary consciousness into knower and known and ends with self and things becoming one again. Such unification takes form not only in knowing but in the valuing (of truth) that directs knowing, the willing that directs action, and the feeling or emotive reach that directs sensing."