Mishima, like the philosophers of the Kyoto school sees that it is in the logic: the European logic of the dual, it is either something there or not. In the Japanese Buddhist context, something can simultaneously be present and absent. But only Japanese can understand these Zen paradoxes.

Spinoza was one of the first who proclaimed the atheistic thesis: God is nature, Deus sive Natura, thus laying the Foundation for the whole later tradition of philosophical and scientific atheism. In his time Spinoza was an outcast and was even forced to hide in an extremist sect of collegian. In this environment were the ideas of the Fifth Monarchy, which influenced the radical wing supporters of Cromwell, who sought to permanently destroy Christian civilization and to declare Cromwell king of the world. The ideas of Spinoza, with its glorification of Nature and the denial of tradition the Scriptures was in this context can be very useful. He anticipated the scientific picture of the world, based on a complete rejection of all supernatural, Revelation, eternity, God as Creator. These ideas became the platform of modern civilization, which was created in Europe, particularly in England, from the 17th century. Out in the course of colonization it has spread to other countries and continents.And to the extent that Western society and its colonies on the path of modernization, they, along with this absorbed and special naturalistic, immanent, atheistic and materialist metaphysics of Spinoza.