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Yeshayahu (Jesaiah) Ben-Aharon (born 1955, Israel) is an Israeli philosopher who founded the kibbutz Harduf, Israel. He is married and has two children. He teaches, writes and lectures worldwide on the evolution of human consciousness in the sciences, humanities, and spirituality. He received a PH.d in philosophy from Haifa University in Israel and specializes in Goetheanism, phenomenology, anthroposophy and post-structural thinking. His main goal is to combine spiritual research with social activism in Israel and the world. ==Social and Political Activism== In the social field, Dr. Ben-Aharon studies the influences of globalization on current cultural, political, and economic trends and events. A special field of research and activity concerns Israel, its identity and destiny, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dr. Ben-Aharon can be considered as a founder and pioneer of the current civil uprising in Israel. His activity in conceptualizing, organizing and activating Israeli civil society, prepared important seeds and impulses for the current social events in Israel. As early as 2000 he started, as part of his co-founding of the global network for threefolding (with Nicanor Perlas), to advocate a new form of the social and political organization of Israeli and global society. (His global social vision is described in his book "America’s Global Responsibility"). In an interview with reporter Yael Gvirtz for the main Israeli newspaper, ''Yediot A’haronot, Weekend Supplement'', June 28, 2002, Ben-Aharon says rather prophetically: “A revolution does not happen overnight...This vision will be realized, only when it has become a question of life and death for Israeli society.” Gvirtz asked, "How does one carry out a Silk Revolution in a state used to violence?" Ben-Aharon answered, “This is a revolution in cognition and consciousness. In order to create a deep change of society, the understanding of the simple citizens is required. There are no instant solutions here; it is not about founding another political party. It is not about the politics of parties, but about the original sense of politics, about reshaping social life into a three-fold organism. Everywhere in the world where strong civil institutions are operating, a social revolution is generated. Wherever we find three negotiators seated around the social table and not just two - the politician and the capitalist, who to all intents and purposes are one and the same - this is a total revolution. If the civil voice understands its power and affects democracy and economics, then we shall be in a different story altogether.” His father, Yetzhak Ben-Aharon, was a leader of the labor movement and labor party in Israel beginning in the 1930s, and supported Dr. Ben-Aharon’s pioneering activism. Yetzhak said: “A new civil movement will arise that will sweep away the rule of generals and return Israel to its real goals and to sanity.” No better words could have expressed what is happening now (2011) in Israel than these words. Dr. Ben-Aharon has also developed far-reaching insights about the political situation of Israel in the Middle East and the unending conflict with the Palestinians. In the interview he says, that the foremost precondition of Israeli-and Palestinian politics, if it ever wishes to emerge from these never ending cycles of mutual violence, is to put an end to their participation in the global fight of Western dominated 'Capitalistan: versus extremist led Islamistan.' “Dr. Ben-Aharon’s point of departure toward the prolonged crisis in Israel and the world, is the theory of ‘clash of civilizations,’ which he defines as based on the need of a ‘worthy enemy’ as a strategic asset of the first order for the existence of Empires. “The original sin of Jewish and Palestinians leaderships,” he claims, “is their identifying with the clash of civilizations in its western proclaimed version. The Jewish leadership, on the left and on the right, regarding itself as part of the western empire, or ‘Capitalistan,’ poses itself automatically against ‘Islamistan,’ while the Palestinians do the same from the opposite direction. What is more, each of the three western religions: Judaism, Islam and Christianity, has its own messianic “solution” for Israel, their holy land, intended to kill all the others and complete the destruction of the others. And on this ‘Bloody Fault- Line’ in Samuel Huntington’s charming phrase, we and our children, Jewish and Arabs, are constantly, unwittingly, sacrificing ourselves.” “In a conference he organized last March (2002), on “The Role of Civil Society at a Time of National Crisis,” together with 25 different civil society organizations, was attended, along with globalization experts arriving form abroad, also by Yitzhak Ben-Aharon. The veteran revolutionary, who listened to the discussions and was weary of the theories, declared that unlike others he preferred to talk about the current political situation. Not from the paper, but from the blood of his heart. “I am weary of killing,” he roared in his typical rage. “I am sure that out of thousands of seeds like these there will arise a new civil movement that will sweep away the rule of generals and return Israel to its real goals and to sanity.” 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jesaiah Ben-Aharon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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