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Monday, April 4, 2016
SEEKING AFTER ETHOS FOR POST MODERN
It's a big task for the people all over the world, how to live as an individual, when all the things we believed in are tumbling down, like Marxism has given way, like Myth of Protestantism Ethos is falling down.
We could easily imagine that the importance of "Individual" becomes bigger along with the world getting no boundary.
We are going forward since RENE DESCARTES's DUALISM having our BON SENS left somewhere, and still have a mission to go on proceeding.
We are in the vicious circle that we have the big assignment how to make good use of modern technology such as Nuclear or Biotechnology for the world peace, while we produce welfare problems for the increased aged people in return with the progress in Medical Science or radical Nationalism shows up with ELITISM of the people mistaking EUGENICS.
From the view point that we became close to GOD increasing al mightiness since mankind started to use tools.
People finally began seeking after the ETHOS for POST MODERN, having something nihilistic that natural resources exhausting.
Even if Japan's remarkable progress in economy is based on the lack of individuality unexpectedly, in another word we became Robots and worked too much adopting RATIONALISM to SHAME CULTURE which Ruth Benedict expressed in her book.
We have so many factors to learn from it and as an experiment it was excellent, that I think there must be something hidden here, the key to find a new PARADIGM.
That is to say we could see the contact point in between Oriental World and Occidental World , the former is based on Naturalism and had an amazing progress in reproductions in Japan and the latter is on Humanism and had perfect contribution to Science.
It is a pressing need for us leading our history to seek after our ways, to NEO RENAISSANCE for the coming 21st Century, thinking over on forgotten BON SENS and mistook FREEDOM.
Yoshiaki Yanagita
SEARCHING FOR A REMEDY FOR OUR
NATIONAL IDIOSYNCRASIES
Japan has been absorbing western culture after Meiji Restoration in 1868 and World War II, and now is facing 21st century embracing so many problems unsolved. Whenever we talk on internationality, the attitude to solve the specific problems is always needed before coping with universal ones.
If our national idiosyncrasy "the Japanese Spirit & Western Learning" is keeping us away from approaching universal internationality, we should search for a remedy for it how long it would take, avoiding taking it as just a matter of personal social adaptation, without averting from it.
There must be something wrong with the methodology, that Truth, Goodness and Beauty does not link one another with Food, Clothing and Shelter in Japan at present. Therefore, it might be too late but, we should start solving our specific problems first if any, thinking on universal internationality for the coming 21st century, through the diversity of factors "ITALIAN RENAISSANCE”is presenting us.
Renaissance is a complex of cultural movements, and it is said that inter diciplinal research is needed for it's diversity of factors, socially and culturally, including "PURSUIT OF ORIGIN".
We could dare say that we could not talk on any subject without researching on Renaissance since our predecessors summed up "LIBERTY", "EQUALITY" and "FRATERNITY" with "RENAISSANCE" as a momentum, and gave a lot of influence on "FRENCH REVOLUTION", "ESTABLISHMENT OF THE U.S.A." and as a result to "JAPANESE CONSTITUTION".
What we would like to propose here is to focus on Renaissance as Re-Birth, having one cultural revival movement occurred in Italy 500 years ago as a media, and think over what Renaissance is telling us, not only researching on historical facts but also how we could apply those to the present days.
That is to say, how we reflect Truth, Goodness and Beauty to Food, Clothing and Shelter.
Is Japan Far East or Far West?
Whenever I think on the entitled matter, it reminds me of a famous Aesop's Fable written about a bat sometimes stands on the mammal side and sometimes on the bird side, eventually kicked out from the both sides.
It is said that the Post Modern society is the Harmonism of Humanism and Naturalism. Western people are eager to learn about Easternl Naturalism or spirituality
On that aspect, Japan is a suitable place to learn Harmonism aproaching from the both sides to realize one compleatly new civilization, since fortunately or unfortunately, Japan doesn't match to the both categories.
It is said that the Post Modern society is the Harmonism of Humanism and Naturalism. Western people are eager to learn about Easternl Naturalism or spirituality, while Eastern people always stick to their traditional mythology even under the modern civilization without unederstanding about western spirit or philosophy.
On that aspect, Japan is a suitable place to learn Harmonism aproaching from the both sides to realize one compleatly new civilization, since fortunately or unfortunately, Japan doesn't match to the both categories.
Japan has to make full use of this peculiar situation to establish one advanced civilization, converting a demerit into a big merit. In other words, it is the only way left for Japan to survive the world without losing the originality. Still, Japan has to learn a lot from both sides due to avoid becoming a bat doesn't belong to either side.
It's a big task for the people all over the world, how to live as an individual, when all the things we believed in are tumbling down, like Marxism has given way, like Myth of Protestantism Ethos is falling down.
We could easily imagine that the importance of "Individual" becomes bigger along with the world getting no boundary.
We are going forward since RENE DESCARTES's DUALISM having our BON SENS left somewhere, and still have a mission to go on proceeding.
We are in the vicious circle that we have the big assignment how to make good use of modern technology such as Nuclear or Biotechnology for the world peace, while we produce welfare problems for the increased aged people in return with the progress in Medical Science or radical Nationalism shows up with ELITISM of the people mistaking EUGENICS.
From the view point that we became close to GOD increasing al mightiness since mankind started to use tools.
People finally began seeking after the ETHOS for POST MODERN, having something nihilistic that natural resources exhausting.
Even if Japan's remarkable progress in economy is based on the lack of individuality unexpectedly, in another word we became Robots and worked too much adopting RATIONALISM to SHAME CULTURE which Ruth Benedict expressed in her book.
We have so many factors to learn from it and as an experiment it was excellent, that I think there must be something hidden here, the key to find a new PARADIGM.
That is to say we could see the contact point in between Oriental World and Occidental World , the former is based on Naturalism and had an amazing progress in reproductions in Japan and the latter is on Humanism and had perfect contribution to Science.
It is a pressing need for us leading our history to seek after our ways, to NEO RENAISSANCE for the coming 21st Century, thinking over on forgotten BON SENS and mistook FREEDOM.
Yoshiaki Yanagita
SEARCHING FOR A REMEDY FOR OUR
NATIONAL IDIOSYNCRASIES
Japan has been absorbing western culture after Meiji Restoration in 1868 and World War II, and now is facing 21st century embracing so many problems unsolved. Whenever we talk on internationality, the attitude to solve the specific problems is always needed before coping with universal ones.
If our national idiosyncrasy "the Japanese Spirit & Western Learning" is keeping us away from approaching universal internationality, we should search for a remedy for it how long it would take, avoiding taking it as just a matter of personal social adaptation, without averting from it.
There must be something wrong with the methodology, that Truth, Goodness and Beauty does not link one another with Food, Clothing and Shelter in Japan at present. Therefore, it might be too late but, we should start solving our specific problems first if any, thinking on universal internationality for the coming 21st century, through the diversity of factors "ITALIAN RENAISSANCE”is presenting us.
Renaissance is a complex of cultural movements, and it is said that inter diciplinal research is needed for it's diversity of factors, socially and culturally, including "PURSUIT OF ORIGIN".
We could dare say that we could not talk on any subject without researching on Renaissance since our predecessors summed up "LIBERTY", "EQUALITY" and "FRATERNITY" with "RENAISSANCE" as a momentum, and gave a lot of influence on "FRENCH REVOLUTION", "ESTABLISHMENT OF THE U.S.A." and as a result to "JAPANESE CONSTITUTION".
What we would like to propose here is to focus on Renaissance as Re-Birth, having one cultural revival movement occurred in Italy 500 years ago as a media, and think over what Renaissance is telling us, not only researching on historical facts but also how we could apply those to the present days.
That is to say, how we reflect Truth, Goodness and Beauty to Food, Clothing and Shelter.
Is Japan Far East or Far West?
Whenever I think on the entitled matter, it reminds me of a famous Aesop's Fable written about a bat sometimes stands on the mammal side and sometimes on the bird side, eventually kicked out from the both sides.
It is said that the Post Modern society is the Harmonism of Humanism and Naturalism. Western people are eager to learn about Easternl Naturalism or spirituality
On that aspect, Japan is a suitable place to learn Harmonism aproaching from the both sides to realize one compleatly new civilization, since fortunately or unfortunately, Japan doesn't match to the both categories.
It is said that the Post Modern society is the Harmonism of Humanism and Naturalism. Western people are eager to learn about Easternl Naturalism or spirituality, while Eastern people always stick to their traditional mythology even under the modern civilization without unederstanding about western spirit or philosophy.
On that aspect, Japan is a suitable place to learn Harmonism aproaching from the both sides to realize one compleatly new civilization, since fortunately or unfortunately, Japan doesn't match to the both categories.
Japan has to make full use of this peculiar situation to establish one advanced civilization, converting a demerit into a big merit. In other words, it is the only way left for Japan to survive the world without losing the originality. Still, Japan has to learn a lot from both sides due to avoid becoming a bat doesn't belong to either side.
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