Samurai Art Project
Bushido (Way of Samurai) perspective:
Rectitude/Justice or Righteousness is the strongest virtue of Bushido.
A well-known samurai defines it this way: ‘Rectitude is one’s power to decide upon a course of conduct in accordance with reason, without wavering; to die when to die is right, to strike when to strike is right.’ Another speaks of it in the following terms: ‘Rectitude is the bone that gives firmness and stature. Without bones the head cannot rest on top of the spine, nor hands move, nor feet stand.
Controversial Questions
- Can Righteousness and Justice emerge under the circumstance of no proprietary by any Monarch, Kingship, or sovereign state?
- Does this virtue exist totally free from a pressure of social, economical, and political system?
- Who decide when is a right time to act, what course of actions should be taken and how it should be conducted so that it would be universally and timelessly beneficial to all humankind?
Biblical Perspective
義/ Righteousness
This Japanese kanji character consists of the following two parts which to me implies “Jesus Christ”.