A Study On Shuji Ozeki’s Symbiotic Philosophy

Shuji Ozeki is a famous Marxist philosopher in Japan and one of the representative figures in the research field of "Ecological Marxism" in Japan.His core idea is to combine social problems with environmental problems.In addition,from the standpoint of Marxist philosophy,he proposes to absorb the quintessence of "agricultural" civilization values and build a post-modern pluralistic symbiotic society that transcends modern capitalist society,in order to thoroughly solve the alienation of human-to-human relations and the alienation of human-natural relations.He opposed the confrontational society dominated by the concept of competition,but advocated the establishment of a symbiotic harmonious society based on the recognition of heterogeneity.From the background of the symbiotic philosophy of Shuji Ozeki.In Japanese society,students committed suicide because of "bullying" one after another,when the mass media and public opinion condemned teachers and school management,Shuji Ozeki turned his attention to the problem of alienation of human communication hidden behind Japanese society,he pointed out that alienated communication of "bullying" has occurred in the school system where grades are paramount,and alienated labor of "overwork to death" has occurred in the enterprises of the capitalist economic system where profits are paramount.With the rapid development of Japanese economy,the environment has also been damaged,the social production dominated by the logic of capital regards nature as an object,belittles it as a means of pursuing profits,and destroys the harmonious and unified relationship between human and nature.When different scholars analyzed the causes of social hazards from different perspectives,it also aroused the attention of Shuji Ozeki,from the perspective of materialism,he proposed to build a pluralistic symbiotic society of symbiosis between human and human,between human and nature,and between agriculture and industry,since then,he has gradually developed his research focus from communication theory to symbiosis theory.The Fukushima nuclear leak accident on March 11 in Japan even made Shuji Ozeki question the "faith in science and technology" dominated by modern civilization,it is nuclear power,fossil fuels and other energy sources that are separated from the circulation of the natural ecosystem that make human beings feel that social development is not constrained by nature,he took this opportunity to advocate the removal of nuclear power stations,the strengthening of exchanges between human and nature through labor,the awakening of man’s natural attributes,and the reestablishment of the interdependent and harmonious symbiotic relationship between human and nature.From the core point of view of Shuji Ozeki’s symbiotic philosophy.There are three symbiotic concepts: The Holy Land symbiosis represented by Kinsho Kurokawa,the competitive symbiosis represented by Tatsuo Inoue,and the co symbiosis represented by Shuji Ozeki.The Holy Land symbiosis theory contains the homogenization tendency of excluding heterogeneity,while the market competition principle advocated by the competition symbiosis theory makes people unable to see the commonality of its origin,and replaces it with atomized and isolated personal egoism and liberalism.In this capitalist society where money dominates everything,commodity exchange destroys the traditional human community,and the relationship between human and human is expressed as the relationship between objects and objects.The symbiosis theory advocated by Shuji Ozeki,based on the common value of mankind,attempts to transcend modern individualism and egalitarianism and realize the equality of diversity and heterogeneity among people.His symbiosis concept is diversified,including the symbiosis between human and human,between human and nature,and between agriculture and industry.Shuji Ozeki attaches importance to the communication and communication between people in modern society,it is through this free communication that the labor foundation of interpersonal relations has been formed,and a new human community has been formed,which is different from the illusory community with repressive Union as its essence.By analyzing that communication is an individual’s intrinsic characteristic,he made clear that there is an intrinsic common relationship among individuals.Taking the indispensability of common value to human existence as the background,it seeks to recognize the irreplaceable value of modern personal identity and tries to realize the qualitative transformation of individualism.People’s equality in value is not just a formalistic egalitarianism,but a substantial realization in the diversity and heterogeneity between human and human.Shuji Ozeki expounds the relationship between human and nature from the perspective of material metabolism between human and nature.The first transformation of human history-"agricultural revolution" brought about "the state",which also produced permanent domination and subordination,there was a distance between human and nature,and human became a subjective existence acting on nature.The second transformation of human history,the establishment of the capitalist system,made the deviation between human and nature from partial to complete and thorough.The global capitalist modernization has broken the close relationship between agriculture and industry,making agriculture subordinate to the industrialization development mode that is compatible with the market economy,traditional agriculture is both the "victimizer" and the "victim" of environmental problems.Labor is the medium of material metabolism between human and nature,it is part of the natural cycle or can be said to be the motivation of the natural cycle,however,under the capitalist conditions,labor makes the relationship between human and nature move from identity to alienation.In Shuji Ozeki’s view,the commercialization of labor under the capitalist system is the root of all kinds of problems in modern civilization,therefore,he criticized the capitalist system and believed that only by getting rid of the commercialization of labor under the capitalist system and the growth oriented society can we realize a pluralistic symbiotic society and a new civilization.He advocated strengthening the communication between human and nature through labor,so as to realize the symbiosis between human and nature,through the agricultural economic model of self-sufficiency and real estate sales,he broke away from the shackles of labor commercialization and growth,and gradually changed from an industrialized society to an agro industrial symbiotic society through the restoration of agricultural rights.His symbiotic thought of agriculture and industry can help us avoid detours in the process of rural urbanization,so that more farmers can share the fruits of urban civilization;his symbiotic thought of human and human,human and nature is in line with the principle of harmonious symbiosis between human and nature advocated by General Secretary Xi Jinping and integrating the construction of ecological civilization into the overall layout of national development,therefore,Shuji Ozeki’s symbiotic philosophy should be paid more attention to by Chinese academic circles,which is also the original intention of this paper.Based on Shuji Ozeki’s theoretical achievements,the paper summarizes his symbiotic philosophy completely and objectively on the premise of not violating his original theoretical intention,aiming to provide more Marxist solutions to China’s environment and development problems,the starting point is to provide beneficial enlightenment for the construction of socialist ecological civilization with Chinese characteristics.The author puts forward the Enlightenment of Shuji Ozeki’s symbiotic philosophy to China’s ecological civilization construction from three aspects,balance the relationship between human and nature,human and human;change the mode of agricultural and rural development;transform the mode of economic development and realize a symbiotic society of green and sustainable development.