Abstract
In spite of the general belief that the informatization of our world would make our life better and more meaningful than that of the industrialized society, it is clear that we are now facing serious problems. These are such as loss of face-to-face communication as a result of penetration of exclusive SNS communication format, abnormal concentration of capital in some high-tech companies due to the artificialization of the investment environment through the use of the Internet and artificial intelligence and so on. In the author’s view, this kind of crisis is reflecting the confusion of ‘Being itself’ and ‘beings’ as suggested by Rafael Capurro or the loss of plurality of meanings of life in the informatization era due to the so-called techno-determinism. In this paper, the author will try to search for alternative world views to overcome the loss of plurality of meanings by examining Japanese existential-ethical views reflecting their latent value-orientation to oneness of meanings suggested by Kitaro Nishida and others. It seems that Japan is an interesting country in the sense that it has been facing various serious problems in the informatized environments and at the same time it has a potential power to overcome this situation.
Highlights
In spite of the general belief that the informatization of our world would make our life better and more meaningful than that of the industrialized society, it is clear that we are facing serious problems
The points which the author discussed in these papers are: we could find the presence of Seken-related meanings as traditional cultural-existential ways of understanding of life and the world in the minds of Japanese people today; and these meanings deriving from Seken or Japanese cultural-existential Ba are found to be interrelated with people‟s various views on society, politics, environmental problems, crimes, disasters, matters happing in the information society including privacy-related problems and human-robot-interaction
One of the most important points we discussed above is that Seken or Japanese Ba is the place where interaction, reciprocal conversion, fusion among things, people‟s views, the meanings of things/matters/products and interchange of viewpoints on society and our existential world would occur
Summary
In spite of the general belief that the informatization of our world would make our life better and more meaningful than that of the industrialized society, it is clear that we are facing serious problems. The author will make an attempt to search for alternative world views to overcome the loss of plurality of meanings by examining Japanese existential-ethical views reflecting their latent valueorientation to oneness of meanings suggested by Kitaro Nishida and others It seems that Japan is an interesting country in the sense that it has been facing various serious problems in the informatized environments and at the same time it has a potential power to overcome this situation. If we follow Capurro‟s ideas, „being‟ or life can‟t be reduced to the problem of „beings.‟ In the author‟s view, if we can relate Capurro‟s ideas about the distinction between Being and beings and ontology and metaphysics with Japanese ideas about Koto, Aida, Seken or Ba, the scope that Capurro‟s ideas have would expand at least in a potential way This is what Japanese philosophers and authors such as Kitaro Nishida, Bin Kimura, Yujiro Nakamura have tried and is what the author himself will try in this article. This context is related with our effort to seek for alternative perspectives to overcome the narrow eyesight under the influence of so-called techno-determinism
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