For a long time, I have been thinking of the concept about Individuality and I am still
trying to think of it further without any exit so far. However, originally it started as
an antithese against the mass or group regarding the dignity of each individual person in
or against the total.
However, in relation to the above, it seems to me that I am recently approaching the
thought that freedom itself and ethics in relation to freedom must be combined with such
individuality, and those three factors, i.e. Individual, Freedom and Ethics, must be
integrated and supplemented with each other.
Placing myself in a corner of the Islands; so to say, in an intermixture or chaos of
thoughts consisting of its own tradition and the ones from eastern and western worlds; I
am not particularly thinking about Individuality as deemed as an object to be analyzed
precisely, however, regarding individuality I have been thinking of, I feel I have found
some standard in the Benevolence by Confucius in the eastern world represented by his very
clear and simple words saying "Do not press the other persons with what you do not
want to be pressed" However, I am still on the way of my travels and assume this is
not to be final.
Without simply clinging to Benevolence by Confucius, my travel of contemplation will never
terminate, but I feel that I am finding some new direction. However, it is absolutely
different from the political or social thoughts, but it is of my own literature.
My travel of contemplation is still endless.