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| author | Ishibashi, Ryuhei |
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| contents | <p>This paper posits that nihilism, an inquiry necessitated by the conditions of modernity, has not<br>been philosophically "resolved" but rather rendered "obsolete" by the advent of artificial<br>intelligence (AI) and the precipitous decline in verification costs. By tracing the intellectual<br>genealogy from Nietzsche’s diagnosis and Kitaro Nishida’s Eastern response to the lineage of<br>American Pragmatism, this study reconstructs the historical trajectory through which these<br>philosophies were operationalized. Specifically, it examines how the collision between W.<br>Edwards Deming’s rationalism and Japanese empirical mysticism within the Toyota Production<br>System (TPS) eventually converged with Agile development. This paper clarifies that the<br>epistemological shift from "believing" to "verifying" dismantles the paralyzing premise of<br>nihilism, establishing pragmatism as the necessary framework for constructing meaning<br>through iterative action in the post-nihilistic era.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | The Obsolescence of Nihilism: How Pragmatism Guided the Trajectory from Nietzsche to Lean Ishibashi, Ryuhei nihilism TPS Nietzsche Pragmatism post-nihilism <p>This paper posits that nihilism, an inquiry necessitated by the conditions of modernity, has not<br>been philosophically "resolved" but rather rendered "obsolete" by the advent of artificial<br>intelligence (AI) and the precipitous decline in verification costs. By tracing the intellectual<br>genealogy from Nietzsche’s diagnosis and Kitaro Nishida’s Eastern response to the lineage of<br>American Pragmatism, this study reconstructs the historical trajectory through which these<br>philosophies were operationalized. Specifically, it examines how the collision between W.<br>Edwards Deming’s rationalism and Japanese empirical mysticism within the Toyota Production<br>System (TPS) eventually converged with Agile development. This paper clarifies that the<br>epistemological shift from "believing" to "verifying" dismantles the paralyzing premise of<br>nihilism, establishing pragmatism as the necessary framework for constructing meaning<br>through iterative action in the post-nihilistic era.</p> |
| title | The Obsolescence of Nihilism: How Pragmatism Guided the Trajectory from Nietzsche to Lean |
| topic | nihilism TPS Nietzsche Pragmatism post-nihilism |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17936113 |