In Japan, Conservative is often called as Right Wing. Self-professed progressive people, for example communists are left wing. I think I can call Japan's Conservative as "Japan-ism". Japan-ism is very vague.
A thinker, Nishibe Susumu, pointed that Communist countries and America are left wing. The because is that both communists and America intend to make society by design, and both are detached from history. Communism is a case of failure, America is still in a new test tube. The difference between two is that communists denied their own history while America accept individual's own history, culture. American policy was better. (So, America-ism is right wing for American.) For communists, communism was right.
However, according to a sociologist, Osawa Masachi, in democratic countries, we do not permit to believe any religion in essence. Religions seek the truth. But democratic countries accept religions as a private thing like hobbies. However someone believes one religion, it is not the truth but just a private thing. We are permitted to believe but we are not permitted to determine the truth. Just we are permitted to believe.
Seen in that light, all democratic countries don't permit people to have any religion. We can call the religions in democratic country as religions? Religions may have died when democracy established. We are permitted to choose religion. But we can say that culture is a thing which is handed on to the next generation from old generation. There is no choice. To choose religion may be an evidence that religion has died, from that standpoint. Our culture is Human Rights which allow us to choose religion.
"Human Rights" is a very interesting concept. I think there is no problem for westerners. But for Japanese, there is a problem that the "human lights" is a concept of Christian culture.
"Human rights" would be absolutely a culture in Europa, and it is the source of choice, I suppose. But Japanese has chose the "human lights". Then what its source is?
In Japan, Many politicians, scientists and some philosophers etc often cite western philosophy when they persuade someone about human light issue. It is sure western philosophy is a fountain of wisdom for thinking of western thoughts. But what they talk about? We are not westerners.
I think one of catastrophic examples is "medical ethic". Influential thinker, Kato Naotake, cite Kant-ism when he talk about our brain-death issue and never cite our traditional thought. He must be want to culturally massacre Japanese people. :-)
There are the world-s as many as number of people. Because our world is an aggregation consist of all our interpretation of the world. I live in my world, you live in your world, he lives in his world, she lives in her world, Europeans live in European world, Americans live in American world, Japanese live in Japanese world. Western philosophy can't explain Japan's world. Just those small worlds are intersecting. I think we can't define death without our own thought and culture. We need a real source. Western philosophy can be a reference but it can't be a source.
Democracy is not a system which was developed only in Europa as I talked about democracy in olden villages in Japan. Rather, I guess we can say Democracy is a primitive system. Human dignity is also too. Those concepts are very natural. It is not impossible to establish Japan's own human right. I think other Asian will need their own human light concept too.
Many Japanese people failed to know what China is, I think. Many Japanese regard China as communist country. But their actual condition is China-ism, or Confucianism-ism. I can't agree with their current human-light-policy though.
I think actually Japanese people know or feel Japan's human lights. But politicians ditched to theorize. Philosophers also too. I think we must seek what our "right" is.
Hmm, I don't have enough time to wrote any more.
Have a nice day.
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