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George Lucas' creation of the ''Star Wars'' saga was influenced by certain elements of mythology, philosophy and religion. In particular, the conflict between "light" and "dark" sides of the Force resembles Zoroastrianism, while their close connection recalls the yin and yang of Taoism: There is therefore an inconsistency in Lucas's ideas between the duality of yin/yang, where the two should be in balance with each other, and the duality of good/evil, where evil is viewed as wrong. There is nevertheless a strong ethical element to ''Star Wars'', which has been linked to that of Buddhism and Stoicism: The concept of evil in ''Star Wars'' also resembles that of Manichaeism.〔 However, since Christianity views evil as something real in itself, the concept of evil in ''Star Wars'' conflicts with that of Christianity. The physical aspects of the Force in ''Star Wars'' have been compared to Qi in Chinese and Japanese thought. In the first film it is described this way: Connections of the Force to Prana in Hindu thought have also been suggested, but this has been criticised as a misinterpretation which confuses the Paramatman with the individual soul. According to postcolonial scholar Edward Said, the Orient’s association with the mystic, magic, spirit, and the inexplicable allows the West, armed with scientific rationality and technological superiority, to overpower the Orient. But in the Star Wars universe, the sourcing of power from magic, the Force, reconfigures Edward Said’s magical, mystical Orient versus the scientific, rational Occident dichotomy in terms of a postcolonial system of power, in which one can imagine a world that, rather than being governed by who has the latest and greatest technology (as in the Cold War, and during imperialism), there is some larger conflict, some higher actors in a mystical world who have control. The power of the Jedi and the Sith show not an exoticized magic, as an Orientalist world would assume, but a distinctly powerful magic, for it is the Force, and those who can use it, that is the superior force in the power system of ''Star Wars.'' In this post (or anti?)-colonial power system, the colonial power system’s way of exoticizing magic such that those who believe in the spiritual and the inexplicable are then controlled is completely turned around. In other words, rather than complicating, or reconfiguring, the Orientalist power structure in which technology rules the mystical, the system in which power is configured in ''Star Wars'' totally rejects that Orientalist power structure. ==Book on the subject== ''Star Wars and Philosophy'' is a compilation book written by various college professors, most of them in the philosophy field. The book is edited by Kevin S. Decker, Jason T. Eberl and William Irwin and published by Open Court.〔(''Star Wars and Philosophy'' ) at Google Books〕 Published in March 2005, the book discusses various philosophical issues regarding the Star Wars franchise and its universal settings such as the ethics of the conflict between good and evil or if the role of robots constitutes slavery or not.〔http://philpapers.org/rec/DECSWA〕 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「Philosophy and religion in Star Wars」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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