 TRIZ/CrePS Paper: Social Problems |
 
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'Liberty vs. Love': The Principal Contradiction of Human Culture
(2) The 'Liberty vs. Love' Contradiction and 'Ethics' at the Personal Level |
Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin University & CrePS Institute) |
(A) Japan Creativity Society, Annual Research Conference, Sept. 9-10, 2017, at Keio University (Yokohama)
(B) Japan TRIZ Society, Japan TRIZ Symposium 2017, Sept. 21-22, 2017 at Nakano Sun-Plaza (Tokyo),
(C) European TRIZ Association (ETRIA), TRIZ Future Conference (TFC) 2017, at Lappeenranta (Finland)
(D) (Extended Paper) (in Japanese) TRIZ Home Page in Japan, Jun. 25, 2018
(in English translation) TRIZ Home Page in Japan, Aug. 14, 2018
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Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Sept. 25, 2017)
Recently I made presentations at Japan Creativity Society' Conference and at Japan TRIZ Society's Japan TRIZ Symposium, The presentations have the same title and similar contents, but are adjusted to their different audiences, different requests of documents and submission dates. In a week, I am going to present the paper in English at ETRIA TRIZ Future Conference at Lappeenranta, Finland.
[Note (TN, Jun. 20, 2018):
Paper (C) presented at ETRIA TFC 2017 was published later in Mar. 18, 2018 in the ETRIA Journal, so I post a link to it (PDF) 
. And I am posting the Paper (C) in HTML 
and in PDF 
and the presentation slides in HTML and in PDF .
Extended Paper (D) in Japanese was written after (A) on Sept. 15, 2017 and revised on Feb. 27, 2018. The paper is now posted in the Japanese page , and a short note is written at the bottom of this page .]
Note (TN, Aug. 14, 2018): Extended Paper (D) in English translation has been published in a separate page in this site ==> .
Documents submitted/presented at the conferences and posted in this Web site are tabulated below.
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Slides in English |
Paper in English |
Slides in Japanese |
Paper in Japanese |
(A) Japan Creativity Soc.
Research Conference,
Sept. 9-10, 2017. |
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Presented （Sept. 8, 2017 prepared） HTML , PDF |
Paper (8 pages）： Proceedings (Aug. 1, 2017 submitted）;
Paper (8 pages) ： Revised (Aug. 26, 2017 revised）HTML, PDF |
(B) Japan TRIZ Soc.
Japan TRIZ Symp.
Sept. 21-22,
2017 |
Proceedings （Aug. 5, 2017 8. 5 submitted）；
Presented
(Sept. 19, 2017 revised. ） HTML, PDF |
Abstract (half page)： Proceedings (May 19, 2017 submitted) HTML |
Proceedings （Jul. 29, 2017 submitted）；
Presented
（Sept. 19, 2017 revised） HTML, PDF |
Extended Abstract (1 page）： Proceedings (May 19, 2017 submitted）HTML, PDF |
(C) ETRIA,
TRIZ Future Conf. (TFC)
Oct. 4-6, 2017．
Finland |
Presented (Oct. 5, 2017) HTML, PDF |
Paper (8 pages）： (Aug. 7, 2017 submitted）;
Paper (8 pages)： Proceedings (Aug. 26, 2017 revised）;
Published in ETRIA Journal (PDF) ;
Posted in HTML and in PDF . |
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| (D) Extended Paper, TRIZ Home Page in Japan, Jun. 25, 2018 |
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short note (Jun. 25, 2018)
English translation of Published paper (Aug. 14, 2018) |
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Paper (16 pages) (Sept. 15, 2017);
Revised paper (19 pages) (Feb. 27, 2018)
Published here
(Jun. 25, 2018) |
The theme presented here has been investigated since summer 2015, in the process as shown below:
(1) Starting to apply the TRIZ/CrePS methodology to social problems,
I visualized the logics of the book "The Low-living Elderly" with the Fuda-Yose method. (Sept. 2015 thru Jan. 2016)
(2) Investigating many readers' reviews on the book, I recognized a big conflict of arguments between self-responsibility and mutual help at the root. (Mar. 2016)
(3) I have found a basic hypothesis that at the root of Human Culture there exists an important contradiction between Liberty (the First Principle) and Love (the Second Principle) and it is the Principal Contradiction not yet solved throughout the Human History. (Apr. 2016)
(4) Saying that 'Liberty vs. Love' is the Principal Contradiction of Human Culture, I made presentations at Japan TRIZ Symposium and ETRIA TFC , and wrote an introductory article in the Bulletin of YMCA at Tokyo University. (Jul. thru Oct., 2016)
(5) I investigated the structure among 'Liberty, Love, and Ethics' at the personal level. I studied about it from the viewpoints of personal growth and by using the visualizing method. (Mar. thru May, 2017)
(6) Extending the basic hypothesis, I made presentations on the theme of 'Liberty vs. Love' Contradiction and Ethics, at Japan Creativity Society, at Japan TRIZ Symposium , and at ETRIA TFC. (Jul. thru Oct. 2017)
The Basic Hypothesis can be summarized as follows (Toru Nakagawa, Sept. 26, 2017):
(1)
Ethics (and its deepening) is the 0th Principle of Human Culture. Deep inside the human heart, Ethics serves as the guideline to direct internal desires from Bad Will toward Good Will.
The Contents of Ethics, i.e. 'What is Good, and What is Bad', are acquired later in life through the society, and hence are different depending on history and on society.
However, 'the internal ability to distinguish Good from Bad deep inside the human heart', which I call Conscience, is supposed to be intrinsic for humankind and hence serves as the fundamental basis for the Human Culture. The concepts of 'Essential Equality of every person as a human' and 'Fundamental Human Rights' have become clearer through the Human history. Essence of the 0th Principle is the principle that Every person has the rights for pursuing Happiness.
(2)
The First Principle, Liberty, is 'To decide and act for oneself and to live', and it aims at Winning in Competitions.
It brings with Reformation and Creation on one side, while Ruling and Conservation by the Winners on the other side.
Essence of the First Principle is 'To pursue My (or Our) own Happiness and Interests'.
(3) The Second Principle, Love, is 'To love one's own children, family, and neighbors and to help and protect them', and aims at self-controlling one's Liberty and at serving and coordinating with others. For protecting one's Family (in a wider sense), Love is apt to generate conflicts with the Outsiders. Essence of the Second Principle is 'To pursue the Happiness and Interests of All the members'. Here, the range of people expressed as 'All the members' is an issue, which should be widened universally as a goal of Human Culture.
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There exist various Conflicts/Contradictions inside Liberty, inside Love, and between Liberty and Love. Types of such Contradictions are listed.
(5) When the understanding of Ethics is poor, i.e., when one is motivated by Bad Will (or selfish mind), Liberty as well as Love are greatly spoiled in their spirits and actions and the 'Liberty vs Love' Contradictions emerge severely. Therefore, the installation of Ethics in the minds and actions at the personal level and in the actions and social rules at various social organizational levels is the important keys to reduce and resolve the Principal 'Liberty vs. Love' Contradiction of Human Culture. The core of the Ethics is the spirit of 'Essential Equality of every person as a human'.
(6) In short, Liberty (for pursuing My (or Our) own Happiness) and Love (for pursuing Happiness of All the members) are both motivated and hence can be coordinated by the Ethics (i.e., the 0th Principle that Every person has the rights to pursue one's Happiness) so as to reduce/resolve the Principal Contradiction 'Liberty vs. Love' of Human Culture.
(B) Japan TRIZ Symposium 2017
'Liberty vs. Love': The Principal Contradiction of Human Culture
(2) The 'Liberty vs. Love' Contradiction and 'Ethics' at the Personal Level
Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin University & CrePS Institute)
Japan TRIZ Symposium 2017, Held by Japan TRIZ Society,
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Sept. 21-22, 2017 at Nakano Sun-Plaza (Tokyo)
Abstract
This is the second report of applying the TRIZ/CrePS Methodology to a big social issue. In my first report, I have found a fundamental contradiction existing between 'Liberty' (the First Principle of Human Culture) and 'Love' (the Second Principle) and that the contradiction has not been solved throughout the history of Human Culture; so I named it as 'the Principal Contradiction of Human Culture'. I was seeking for a possibility of moderating the contradiction in 'Ethics'.
In the present report, I have investigated the relationships among 'Liberty, Love, and Ethics' at the personal (and inter-personal) level, which forms the base level of the organizational hierarchy of human society. Inside the heart of humans, we have senses, feelings, and greed and desires as the base and often feel the conflicts between our 'Evil will Bad Will' and our 'Conscience Good Will'. 'Ethics' should be the guiding principle for overcoming our 'Evil will Bad Will' and for cultivating our 'Conscience Good Will' and our basic internal energy of life. Various forms of the 'Liberty vs. Love' contradiction appear and become serious when our understanding/behavior of 'Ethics' is poor. Thus, the 'Ethics', especially the concept of 'Fundamental Human Rights’ having the principle of 'Essential Equality as Humans' at its core, is supposed to be the main clues to reduce, not to say resolve, the Principal Contradiction 'Liberty vs. Love'.
Presentation Slides (Presented on Sept. 21 after revising the version in the Proceedings) PDF (33 Slides, 471 KB)
(0) Introduction and Outline
(1) Introduction to my previous report (2016)
Thinking process
Basic Hypothesis: 'Liberty vs. Love' is the Principal Contradiction of Human Culture
（2） Investigations in the present study (Method 1):
Relationships among 'Liberty, Love, and Ethics' along the personal lifecycle
（3） Investigations in the present study (Method 2):
Visualizing the Structure of 'Liberty, Love, and Ethics'.
Visual Diagram reported in 2016
Visual Diagram obtained in the present study (Detailed diagram)
Visual Diagram obtained in the present study (Simplified diagram)
（4） Principal Contradiction 'Liberty vs Love' and Ethics -- Basic Hypothesis and Discussions
1. The 0th Principle of Human Culture: Ethics .
2. The First Principle of Human Culture: Liberty
3. The Second Principle of Human Culture: Love
4. Conflicts and Contradictions between Liberty and Love
5. The Role of Ethics to Liberty and Love
(6) Discussions
Causes which make the Principal Contradiction even more difficult to solve
(7) Conclusion
(C) ETRIA TRIZ Future Conference (TFC 2017)
Published paper (PDF):
Nakagawa, T., 'Liberty vs. Love': The Principal Contradiction of Human Culture (2) The 'Liberty vs. Love' Contradiction and 'Ethics' at the Personal Level. Journal of the European TRIZ Association, INNOVATOR, ISSN 1866-4180, 02/2017 Volume 04, pp. 97-104 .
http://www.etria.eu/innovator/ETRIAjournal2017vol04.pdf
Posted here in HTML and in PDF (250 KB).
(Note: ETRIA TFC2017 has Non-exclusive copyrights and allows the authors to re-post the paper in Web sites of the author's choice.)
'Liberty vs. Love': The Principal Contradiction of Human Culture
(2) The 'Liberty vs. Love' Contradiction and 'Ethics' at the Personal Level
Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin University, Japan)
European TRIZ Association (ETRIA), TRIZ Future Conference (TFC) 2017,
at Lappeenranta (Finland) on Oct. 4 - 6, 2017
Abstract
This is the second report of applying the TRIZ/CrePS Methodology to the social filed. A basic hypothesis, found in the first report, is “ ‘Liberty vs. Love’ is the Principal Contradiction of Human Culture unsolved throughout the human history”. The present study has investigated and extended it further. In short: Liberty is the First Principle of Human Culture, while Love is the Second. These Principles however contain various Contradictions, inside Liberty, inside Love, and between Liberty and Love. Both of these Principles are motivated by Ethics, which distinguishes Good from Bad deep inside the human heart. Thus the key to reduce/solve the ‘Liberty vs. Love’ Contradiction should be Ethics. However, Ethics is set and taught by society and evolving with history. Structural relationships of ‘Liberty, Love, and Ethics’ at the personal level are investigated.
0. Introduction
This is the 2nd report of applying the TRIZ/CrePS Methodology [1] to social problems and of revealing the root contradictions underlying the Human Culture.
Last year [2], I applied TRIZ/CrePS to the problem of 'Poverty in the Japanese society'. Using the book "The Low-living Elderly" (Takanori Fujita, 2015), I visualized its logic. At the root of the poverty problem, there exist arguments, among people, blaming the poor themselves for their poverty, opposing mutual help and rescue by social welfare. I realized that the philosophy of Liberty does conflict with the philosophy of Love at the root. Then I obtained a hypothesis as follows:
Basic Hypothesis: 'Liberty vs. Love' is the Principal Contradiction of Human Culture and left unsolved in Human History. Liberty (and its extension) is the First Principle of Human Culture, while Love (and its expansion) the Second Principle. 'Liberty vs Love' is the Principal Contradiction of Human Culture (including the contradictions inside Liberty as well as inside Love). Both Liberty and Love are motivated by Ethics and may be coordinated by it.
I have found various causes making the Principal Contradiction so difficult to solve. Especially, the real and ideal situations of 'Liberty vs. Love' are not yet revealed well at the personal nor social levels.
In the present study, the Basic Hypothesis has been investigated further. The relationships among 'Liberty, Love, and Ethics' are investigated mainly at the personal level. They are studied in relation to the growth stages of human (i.e., baby and child, kid at schools, youth, middle, and elderly). Then, many keywords relevant to ‘Liberty, Love, and Ethics’ are collected and their relationships are investigated by use of a visual diagram, as shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 1. Structure of 'Liberty, Love, and Ethics’ in the Principal Contradiction
The diagram is helpful for revealing the structure of the relationships among ‘Liberty, Love, and Ethics’. Thus the Basic Hypothesis has been revised and extended much as described in the following sections 1. through 5.
The present paper tries to figure out the main structure of the problem without referencing articles and thoughts by numerous people on individual details.
1. The 0th Principle of Human Culture: Ethics
(1) At the bottom of human heart, there exist the senses and feelings and also basic desires and greed. Ethics serves to distinguish Good from Bad deep inside the human heart. Ethics is formed to be common understanding of guiding principles of personal and social lives for each society.
(2) Contents of Ethics, i.e., what are Good and what are Bad, are formed by societies more or less differently and evolve in the history of the Human Culture. Ethics is acquired after birth through various experiences and educations. Then, what is inherent and common for the human kind? I suppose 'the ability to distinguish Good from Bad in the depth of human heart' is inherent and common for human kind. I call the ability ‘Concience’, after redefining its conventional meaning of ‘Good Will in the human heart’. (Cf. Human babies of any birth origin have the ability of learning to speak a language of the raising family/community, wherever raised.)
(3) Human Culture has been based on Ethics and pursuing to extend Liberty and expand Love. The keys to coordinating and solving various conflicts/contradictions of 'Liberty vs. Love' are basically found in Ethics. Hence Ethics is regarded as 'The 0th Principle of Human Culture' in the present study.
(4) The conventional term 'Moral' has a strong nuance of 'Obedience' to social rules reflecting traditional hierarchical human relationships. However, the history of Human Culture has obtained the concept of 'Essential Equality of Humans'. The Fundamental Human Rights with this Equality concept is the core of thoughts on Ethics in the modern world.
(5) Essence of the 0th Principle: Ethics = ‘Everybody has the rights to pursue one's own happiness and interests'.
2. The First Principle of Human Culture: Liberty
Human Culture takes 'Liberty' as its First Principle and aims at extending it further.
(1) Liberty = 'To decide for oneself, to act according to one's own decisions, and to live'. Every action makes different influences and results, and it sometimes succeeds while other times fails. Knowing such situations, one has to think, decide, and act as one thinks best. This way of thinking and acting at ones' best is supposed to result in maximizing the possibility of survival and newly developing the Human Culture.
(2) Liberty conflicts mutually. Since people want common things while the resources are limited, people's desires (‘Liberty’) inevitably collide, and there emerge competitions. Liberty aims at 'Winning in the Competitions'. One has to train oneself to get physical strengths, experiences, intellects, resources, etc. beforehand, and to think, decide, and act in proper ways. Winners obtain the things they wanted while Losers fail in obtaining them and may even lose their own lives. Survival of the stronger (with higher capabilities) in the Competitions is the natural rule in the world of living things.
(3) People's desires 'To Win in the Competitions' make the Competitions severe more and more. In the society with severe competitions, people apt to live in awkward relationships. As the results of repeated competitions, the gaps between the Winners and the Losers expand gradually and the disparity eventually become fixed more or less.
(4) The Social Winners who won the competitions repeatedly start to rule the whole Society. The Winners build new Social Rules which are favorable for them. The Winners try to maintain their own ruling positions. Thus, realism and conservatism prevail among the Winners (and also in the society).
(5) The Social Losers under the situations of being ruled and oppressed want to get released. Breaking the current unfavorable situations, and Reforming the current Social Rules become the targets of new movements in the name of Liberty, with the viewpoints of Idealism. Such Reformations have made new epochs in history.
(6) 'To decide and act for oneself' often generates epoch-making developments of Human Culture, especially in the fields of Science & Technology, Arts, etc.. It is the source of originality and novelty, resulting in Innovation. This fact is the basis that Liberty is regarded as the most important principle for developing Human Culture.
(7) Essence of the First Principle: Liberty = 'To pursue my (or our) own happiness and interests'.
3. The Second Principle of Human Culture: Love
Human Culture takes `Love' as the Second Principle and aims at expanding it widely and universally.
(1) Love = 'to love one's children, one's family, and one's neighbors, and to help and protect them’. The prototype of Love is the affection by mothers to their children. It originates in the instinctive behavior, for human (just like other living things) to protect and raise their children, for leaving offspring. Expanding Love to one's family and neighbors, to everybody around, and further universally is a final target for Love as the Second Principle of Human Culture.
(2) Love helps the weak and the people in trouble. 'To help one another mutually and widely' is the original direction for Love as the Second Principle. For this purpose, Love wants to make contact and communicate with people, and to cooperate with people under mutual understanding.
(3) Love tries to coordinate people in order to seek Harmony among people in the group. When the members' insistence of Liberty is strong and different, achieving harmony becomes rather difficult. One solution is to conciliate the member who was insisting his Liberty so as to stay in cooperation in the group. Another solution is to approve the opinion of the insisting person and to ask other members for their understanding (or to conciliate them). In these two solutions, Love is trying to find some compromise among the group members' Liberty for the sake of Harmony in the group.
(4) Love tries to find Cooperation of a diversity of Liberty while keeping their mutual respects. It is desirable that each member of the group understands the differences in members' opinions and interests, and cooperates in coordination as a group while keeping mutual respects. This is possible when the group members understand that the differences can compensate the weakness of individual members and can make the group better/stronger as a whole. In other cases when an opinion (Liberty) of some members is new and meaningful, such member(s) may be separated from the original group to form a new group independent but having a (loose) relationship with the original group.
(5) Another prototype of Love is related to the sexual reproduction of offspring. It has the nature mostly common as the Love mentioned above, but is specific in its exclusiveness in pairing. Wanting and choosing a partner is motivated much by instinctive desire and feelings, and often meets competitions. Finding good partners and living fruitful marriage lives are important tasks for individuals and for society.
(6) For the purpose of protecting the Family (or Insiders), Love tries to resist/defend against the Outsiders. Love tries to define the members to protect (Family, or Insiders), and to build a Wall around and to defend against Outsiders. For banding the Insiders together, Love sometimes tries to control the opinions and actions (Liberty) of the members, resulting in the standing positions of Conservatism and Realism.
(7) Love, trying to defend the Insiders, generates a Conflict at a higher social level. (E.g., Patriot Love of the people in one country and Patriot Love in the neighboring country caused wars often.) .
(8) To Love everyone (i.e. Universalization of Love, Philanthropy) is the genuine goal of Love. Love aims at giving Help to all the people especially those in poor situations in the social disparity. Trials to change the society in such a direction are the movements of Reformation and Idealism. With the international world-wide scope, they become the movement for Peace in the World.
(9) Essence of the Second Principle: Love = 'To pursue happiness and interests of all the members'. The range recognized as 'all the members' (i.e., Family in a wider sense, Insiders) is crucial in this concept.
4. Conflicts and Contradictions between Liberty and Love
Conflicts/Contradictions emerging inside Liberty and inside Love are mentioned already. Here we discuss on Conflicts/Contradictions between Liberty (pursuing My/Our own happiness/interests) and Love (pursuing happiness/interests of All the members).
(1) A person has made up his Decisions and Actions (Liberty), but some other persons around try to stop him for the sake of Love. Persons around, especially in leading/protecting positions, think that such decisions and actions are wrong or risky. The person thinks "Even though my decisions and actions are risky, it is necessary to take the risk for the success in future". But the others advise "Stop them, or you would certainly fail and get a big damage". Which position is appropriate? It depends on the situations.
(2) Love asks for Mutual help and Cooperation for the sake of happiness and interests for all the members, but some member may refuse them because they do no match his/her own happiness/interests (Liberty). Since Liberty pursues one's own happiness/interests at maximum, this type of conflicts emerges very often.
(3) Liberty wants to finalize an issue by Competition or Fighting, but Love wants to settle the issue in a peaceful way without Fighting. It is natural for Liberty to finalize any issue by means of Competitions or Fighting to decide which wins. Love does not want Fighting but wants to achieve coordination, harmony, and peace among the members. For settling the issue, Love needs to be respected as a mediator and the Mediating solution must convince the both sides.
(4) Social Winners are going to build new social rules and to start ruling the society (Liberty). Love sometimes protests against the new social rules and the way of ruling, claiming that they would violate the happiness and interests of all or some of the members. Love sometimes starts a new movement with the claim.
(5) Social Losers sometimes raise a Reformation movement for the release from oppression (Liberty). Love usually agrees with the purpose of the movement but sometimes opposes against the measures and processes of the movement, because of their violation of happiness and interests of all or some of the members.
(6) Love wants to strengthen the bandage of the members, in order to defend against the threats and attacks from outside, and sometimes tries to control and restrict the opinions and behaviors (Liberty) of the members.
(7) When Love is sensitive in distinguishing the Insiders from outsiders and is narrow-minded, the people other than the Insiders are often excluded from the community of Insiders and hence their opinions and actions (Liberty) are not approved; this causes conflicts between the Insiders and the Outsiders.
5. The Role of Ethics to Liberty and Love
Ethics motivates both Liberty and Love, and coordinates them to reduce/solve the Principal Contradiction 'Liberty vs. Love'
(1) Even though the contents of Ethics (i.e., 'What are Good and What are Bad') differ depending on society and have been evolving with the history of Human Culture, Conscience (the ability to distinguish Good from Bad deeply in the heart) is supposed to be Inherent (and hence common) in the human kind. Hence, it is important that Ethics is understood properly in the heart of individuals and is practiced appropriately. This is crucial for Liberty and Love to be practiced by individuals and by society in their genuine spirits as the Principal Principles of Human Culture. Ethics is the key to reduce/resolve the conflicts/contradictions existing inside Liberty, inside Love, and between Liberty and Love.
(2) Insufficient understanding/practice of Ethics ruins the spirits and practices of Liberty. The followings are some of such examples.
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Ruin the pro-activeness <== Being passive, enervated, irresponsible, following others blindly, etc.
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Ruin the originality, novelty <== Following precedent cases, conventional, copying, imitation, etc.
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Ruin the challenging <== Seeking safety, shrinking, avoiding the responsibility, etc.
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Make Competitions inappropriate <== Backdoor admission, cunning, doping, judgement juggling, secret rule violation, corruption, bribery, etc.
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Obtaining one's interests unfairly <== Threatening, corruption, falsification, fraud, robbery, killing, etc.
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Building new social rules improperly <== Slavery, class system, restricted voting rights, colonial system, etc.
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Misleading the Movement of Reformation <== Terrorism, armed uprising (on the movement side), suppression, media control, etc. (on the ruler side)
(3) Hence for Liberty to be respected, the thoughts and actions in the name of Liberty should be in accordance with Ethics, namely they should come from not Bad Will but Good Will of the persons. Practical guideline for ensuring this point is to keep following the Fundamental Human Rights, especially Concept of 'Essential equality', in the claim of Liberty and in the field of Competition. It is important to understand and practice 'Essential Equality as a human', instead of 'Uniformed Equality' and of ‘Obedience in traditional class system’.
(4) Insufficient understanding of Ethics ruins the spirits and practices of Love.
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Ruins the affection <== Indifference, dislike, cruelty, abusive treatment, etc.
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Ruins the help <== Neglect, disregard, etc.
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Ruins the protection <== Disregard, closing the eyes, etc.
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Ruins the coordination <== Non-cooperation, lack of understanding, cold heart, selfishness, insistence, rejection, etc.
(5) Hence Ethics is the foundation of Love. Love is based on the tender heart (an aspect of Ethics) of everybody. With such a tender heart, one can help, cooperate, and coordinate with others. With a tender heart, one may avoid claiming selfish Liberty and hence reduce the factors causing the conflicts between Liberty and Love. Even though Love has its general philosophy to spread it widely and universally, its sense of specifying the Insider members forms big barriers against widening of Love. It is important to have the Ethics based on the concept of 'Essential Equality as a human', and to communicate with people widely for understanding the history and current situations of the society and the world.
(6) One more point we should note particularly is the fact that Greed of human, especially the desire for money, is endless. In the current world, money is the biggest factor for distinguishing the Social Winners. The rich people are the Social Winners and the current social system is made favorable for them. That is the capitalism economy and the capitalism social system. The capitalism social system has generated big disparity and various serious problems in Japan and in the world. We should make efforts for reforming the social system in this point to incorporate the redistribution of wealth more widely. This is the current important issue of Liberty, the issue of Love, and the issue of Ethics as well.
6. Conclusion
The present study investigated further the Basic Hypothesis of ‘Liberty vs. Love’ as the Principal Contradiction of Human Culture and extended and strengthened it. Especially the structure among ‘Liberty, Love and Ethics’ has been studied at the individual personal level. Various forms of contradiction inside Liberty, inside Love, and between Liberty and Love are considered and Ethics is regarded as the fundamental key to reduce/solve such contradictions. It is noted that Ethics differs depending on society and evolves in history, but the concept of ‘Essential Equality as a human’ is recently understood to be the core of Ethics. Following the Fundamental Human Rights is revealed to be the practical guiding principle for reducing/solving problems of Principal Contradictions. The issue will be investigated further, at the group/organization level next.
The whole investigation reported here has been guided by the TRIZ/CrePS methodology [1]. Recognizing a problem in the Real World, defining the problem to be analyzed in the Thinking World, and understanding the present system and the ideal system (of the problem) have been carried out so far to some extent. Generating solution ideas and building conceptual solutions (in the Thinking World), and implementing solutions (in the Real World) need to be carried out as big tasks in future. Systems thinking and contradiction philosophy in TRIZ/CrePS are especially useful for investigating this fundamental and complex social problem.
References:
1. Nakagawa T (2016) CrePS (General Methodology of Creative Problem Solving) beyond TRIZ: What, Why, and How?, TRIZCON2016 held by Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies, Mar. 2-5, 2016, New Orleans, USA; THPJ, Jun. 20,2016 .
2. Nakagawa T (2016) TRIZ/CrePS Approach to the Social Problems of Poverty: 'Liberty vs. Love' Is Found the Principal Contradiction of the Human Culture, ETRIA TRIZ Future Conference, Oct. 24-27, 2016, Wroclaw, Poland; THPJ, Nov. 12, 2016
Note: THPJ: TRIZ Home Page in Japan, URL= http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/ TRIZ/eTRIZ/
Presentation Slides: PDF (32 slides, 241 KB)
(0) Introduction and Outline
(1) Introduction to my previous report (2016)
Basic Hypothesis: 'Liberty vs. Love' is the Principal Contradiction of Human Culture
（2） Investigations in the present study
（3） Principal Contradiction 'Liberty vs Love' and Ethics -- Basic Hypothesis and Discussions
1. The 0th Principle of Human Culture: Ethics .
2. The First Principle of Human Culture: Liberty
3. The Second Principle of Human Culture: Love
4. Conflicts and Contradictions between Liberty and Love
5. The Role of Ethics to Liberty and Love
(6) Conclusion
(D) (Extended Paper in Japanese) TRIZ Home Page in Japan, Jun. 25, 2018
'Liberty vs. Love': The Principal Contradiction of Human Culture
(2) The 'Liberty vs. Love' Contradiction and 'Ethics' at the Personal Level
Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin University)
Posted in "TRIZ Home Page in Japan", Jun. 25, 2018
Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Jun. 20, 2018):
I extended the paper (A) presented in the Proceedings of JCS Conf. 2017 and submitted it to the Journal of JCS on Sept. 15, 2017. But I received a rejection reply on Jan. 10, 2018, mainly because of not enough reference to preceeding works on Ethics. I revised the paper further on Jan. 14 and Feb. 27, 2018, but the review process was not opened.
Since presenting my basic hypotheses thoroughly is important at this stage, I think, I am posting the Extended Paper (D) here in "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" in the Japanese page . English translation of it is not ready, but the headings of the Discussion section are shown here for your information:
6. Discussions
6.1 Contributions of the creative problem solving methodology (TRIZ/CrePS) to the present study
6.2 Examining problem situations, preceding studies, and verification of the hypotheses
6.3 Structure and significance of the Basic Hypothesis
6.4 Possibilities of common basis of Ethics in the Human Culture
6.5 Significance and consequences of the First Principle, Liberty: Progressive and conservative
6.6 Significance and consequences of the Second Principle, Love: Progressive and conservative
6.7 Roles of the 0th Principle Ethics for the society
6.8 Causes of difficulty in solving the 'Liberty vs Love' Principal Contradiction of Human Culture
Discussions on preceeding works (mostly on Ethics) will follow in my forthcoming presentations.
Note: Full paper in English translation has been published in a separate page in this site ==> . (Aug. 14, 2018)
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