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According to a June 11 article in the Taiwanese newspaper the Liberty Times, starting next year Huagan University would be adding a class on philosophy using “One Piece” as the main subject for the syllabus. The class, which will be taught by Professor Jiàn Zhì Jì (冀剣制) from the university’s philosophy department, has apparently already garnered a lot attention from the Taiwanese students.
One Piece fan and philosophy professor Jì explains that by going through the personalities and speeches uttered by the characters in the “One Piece” world, he wants to go into the various principles of life as he did in his book “The Philosophy Lessons from One Piece: Good and Dreams, The great routes to life”, published in May.
According to Jì, the principles of “dreams”, “adventure” and “belief” are very important ones, yet a lot of younger people don’t have a dream or don’t even know what they’re living for. The professor plans on asking from them to think about the contents of their dreams as well as going out on a solitary journey and writing a report about it.
Professor Jì quotes Blackbeard, one of his favourite “One Piece” characters
“Give it up. There’s no use prattling on about good and evil, man. No matter how hard you look, you’ll NEVER find an answer to those pointless questions!!”
He explains that life is about living/following your dreams, and not about arguing what is good and what it bad.
Source: Yahoo News
* Translated quote courtesy of Stephen Paul, official translator of One Piece.
Via: OnePiecePodcast
Preview translation courtesy of @rio poneglyph
Rio said:
Preview of the book ''One Piece Philosophy Class''
I briefly read through it. A short summary:
- The Grand Line of Justice, Dream and Life.
- Preface: Philosophy is deep thinking, when you get on this special car of philosophy, you will see a world that many people cant.
Author mentions the first time he's heard of some characters' names of OP was when he was playing prize claw from a young girl, his students later introduced OP to him, he didnt believe OP's good, however, he still decided to start watching anime while having doubts when he's bored. After a few episodes, he realized that OP could be the best anime he's ever watched. And then he started thinking about the philosophy inside OP. It's been almost 4 years since he first knew OP.
- Chapter 1.1 is called 'Dream of Life'. Author describes the entire SHC by introducing everyone's role. And stories of Chinese history and Chinese mainstream ideology.
- Chapter 2.1 is called 'Stolen Goods'. It's about justice, what is 'black' and 'white', what is 'good' and 'evil'. He used some examples from different arcs.
- Chapter 5.4 is called 'Ace and Existentialism'. Talking about Ace's childhood and how someone looks at himself. At the end of Chapter 5.3, he talks about Nietzsche.
That's all from the preview
Note - I found this on another forum.
One Piece fan and philosophy professor Jì explains that by going through the personalities and speeches uttered by the characters in the “One Piece” world, he wants to go into the various principles of life as he did in his book “The Philosophy Lessons from One Piece: Good and Dreams, The great routes to life”, published in May.
According to Jì, the principles of “dreams”, “adventure” and “belief” are very important ones, yet a lot of younger people don’t have a dream or don’t even know what they’re living for. The professor plans on asking from them to think about the contents of their dreams as well as going out on a solitary journey and writing a report about it.
Professor Jì quotes Blackbeard, one of his favourite “One Piece” characters
“Give it up. There’s no use prattling on about good and evil, man. No matter how hard you look, you’ll NEVER find an answer to those pointless questions!!”
He explains that life is about living/following your dreams, and not about arguing what is good and what it bad.
Source: Yahoo News
* Translated quote courtesy of Stephen Paul, official translator of One Piece.
Via: OnePiecePodcast
Preview translation courtesy of @rio poneglyph
Rio said:
Preview of the book ''One Piece Philosophy Class''
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I briefly read through it. A short summary:
- The Grand Line of Justice, Dream and Life.
- Preface: Philosophy is deep thinking, when you get on this special car of philosophy, you will see a world that many people cant.
Author mentions the first time he's heard of some characters' names of OP was when he was playing prize claw from a young girl, his students later introduced OP to him, he didnt believe OP's good, however, he still decided to start watching anime while having doubts when he's bored. After a few episodes, he realized that OP could be the best anime he's ever watched. And then he started thinking about the philosophy inside OP. It's been almost 4 years since he first knew OP.
- Chapter 1.1 is called 'Dream of Life'. Author describes the entire SHC by introducing everyone's role. And stories of Chinese history and Chinese mainstream ideology.
- Chapter 2.1 is called 'Stolen Goods'. It's about justice, what is 'black' and 'white', what is 'good' and 'evil'. He used some examples from different arcs.
- Chapter 5.4 is called 'Ace and Existentialism'. Talking about Ace's childhood and how someone looks at himself. At the end of Chapter 5.3, he talks about Nietzsche.
That's all from the preview
Note - I found this on another forum.
