| Summary: | 碩士 === 靜宜大學 === 西班牙語文學系研究所 === 96 === The first point of the Letter of Peace, a living document derived from the school of thought known as existential realism which is in turn the brainchild of the Catalonian philosopher Alfredo Rubio, argues that “the misdeeds done in History cannot be blamed on those living today, for the simple reason that we did not exist at that time.”
That is trying to say that although I do exist now, this existence is by no means guaranteed beforehand, a small change of events before my conception was suffice to wipe the possibilities of my existence off the map.
However, the results of the analyses on the religions and popular beliefs in the Han culture, to see if it’s also true in this part of the world that since we didn’t existe before this life thus we are free from being guilty of something that we didn’t do, tell us that the question lies not so much with existing or not in the time of the deeds being carried out, rather they point their fingers at the social structure. It is there that we come face to face with the transmigration of the guilts, in other words, that one’s guilts derive not necessarily from his own actions, but rather from that of the others, whether their times coincide or not. Therefore we may very well express our doubts about the global applicability of the Letter of Peace, will the Letter then be less useful for the people raised under the Han culture and in this way undermines its importance and value?
Here we see the encounter of two cultures –the Han and the Occidental– which are two different mentalities, both in the geographical and ideological sense, in the present age of the rapid modernization. Hence the investigation was carried out with the aim of opening a path for future studies regarding intercultural relations, un urgent issue in our time.
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