 It is indeed these three figures that form the core of what has become known as the Kyoto School, and in this article I will accordingly focus my attention primarily on them, if also at times on Ueda Shizuteru as the current leading figure of the School. It should nevertheless be kept in mind that these are only four of a much wider group of original thinkers, some squarely within and some more or less on the periphery of the Kyoto School.