#Phylisophy in naruto manga

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"I HAVE NO REASON TO LOVE HER OR BE LOVED BY HER"

Let's unravel the symbolism behind Sasuke's seemingly brusque words.

Because EVERY. SINGLE. ONE of Uchiha Sasuke's words are overflowing with underlying meaning and the symbolism behind turns him into one of the most spectacular fiction characters in modern literature, in my humble personal opinion, in terms of construction, inner coordinates, skeleton and philosophy.

Particularly, when his character's evolution embroiders tantalizingly into sakura's canvas of innocence and soul-healing love ❤️❤️❤️♥️💖💕💜

If we abide to the post-modernist literary criticism, we can refer to this terse assertion from Sasuke in the specter of deconstruction and hermeneutics as methodology of interpretation of the manga.

Namely, we shall try to look for the underlying message of the manga in the context as the intrinsec values of Sasuke's words must be referred to as deeper and transcending the message of the author himself.

 I'm considering hermeneutics specifically because it is widely used for the interpretation of biblical texts/writings of wisdom and Sasuke's construction is abounding in such symbolism.

 The problem here lies in mainly two colliding manga ideologies in the brusque change between Sasuke and Kakashi, namely the nihilism/negativism vs humanism/idealism.

 Kakashi's seemingly retort to Sasuke 'you don't need a reason to love someone, you only need a reason to hate someone' creates an anachronism and a hypothetical fallacy in his logic. As a consequence, he once again fails to stop Sasuke from his resolve.

 Kakashi aligns to the Manga's fundamental humanist view as Kishimoto provides the reserves with his own subjective answer to acquire universal peace and ceas conflict: love as mutual understanding.

 Kishimoto annexes 'love' with an intrinsec value that's self-sufficient for quenching conflict. That's the foundation of humanism, the confidence in the good nature of a sentient being.

 Only... He's not necessary correct. He fails to grasp Sasuke's character and delve deeper into his own life principles. As the main antagonist opposing to the hero's messianic humanist role in taking the reins to universal peace, Sasuke as an Uchiha is the manga conceptualized version of the negativism as depicted and analyzd in the classic philosophy tomes of the great philosophers - Kant, Schopenhauer, Hegel with deep roots into Machiavelli's 'Prince'.

 Short note, if you are interested in dechipering the character of Uchiha Itachi, then start with Machiavelli. Itachi is the embodiment of the Prince imagined by machiavelli. I'm giving these cites  for emphasize: "It is better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both" - - itachi telling his kid brother that it doesn't matter if Sasuke hates him because they have each other like brothers.

 " it is not titled that honor men but men that honor titles" - - it's not the one who becomes Hokage that it's acknowledged but thr one who is acknowledge by everyone becomes Hokage as he tells Naruto: " sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are - - itachi's retorts to his fellow Uchiha who questioned him for shisui'death that 'all of you without measuring your own ability had no idea of mine";. I think they are self-explanatory for they are almost perfect quotes from Itachi's iconic phrases.

So back to Sasuke, he is basically the perfect depiction of Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy which strips the Life of any intrinsec purpose, admittedly attributing 'pein' to life, birth, death itself. This is the Uchiha's infamous  'curse', the biblical curse of knowledge. They are the philosophers of the manga, the great thinkers, the nihilist the ones who question the Life Script.

 Uchiha don't get obsequious towards the Life Script. They are thr ones who ask questions, they don't settle for 'that's how it is' absurdity. They use critical thinking, ration, philosophy, psychology to debunk the mysteries of life and that's why they symbolically 'fell from grace.' Uchiha fell from Paradise metaphorically because they questioned the laws of universe. Naruto and his devotees accept love as having intrinsec omnipotent power.

 Uchiha don't. They are rational, pragmatic, intellectual, philosophers, sophists, great thinkers - - see Sasuke's 'revolution' mentality.

 Sasuke challenges Naruto's 'status quo' as preserving democracy as ensuring universal peace.

 Conversely, let's consider the syntax of his statement. What Sasuke really means by stating that ' I have no REASON to love her' doesn't refer to a justification for love as a feeling itself (a feeling equipped with gratifying powers of being sufficient and inclusive) as 'motive'. Sasuke doesn't deny it, it isn't a contradiction, a negative rejection of her feelings. 'reason' in sausl as care refers to his cognitive process, his ability to JUDGE, to ration, to think critically, to distill and not simply pander to what society considers as being self-sufficient. Sasuke doesn't see love as am intrinsec value to happiness and fulfillment. He doesn't accept the humanist/positivism  MENTALITY, and not the 'motive' itself.

 Sasuke isn't an untutored need in the arts of love. He isn't stupid nor naive. Of course that he doesn't look for a justification for Sakura's feelings nor his very own. He tries to ration logically because this is his manga role - the thinker. He challenges a mentality and not a simple remark.

 Sasuke cannot reasonably comprehend Sakura's ardent devotion. Why would someone so ardently succumb into the den of the devil itself for a decadent criminal with a radical negativist vision who won't reciprocate? He doesn't fathom her masochism, the coherence and rational expansion for her attitude.

 Also, Sasuke doesn't accept the ubiquitous and amorphous dissonance of 'love' as ubiquiptusly omnipotent and soothing.

 Kakashi alludes that life consists of perpetual happiness as innate to every sentient being, that happiness comes for free and passively, that's the gift of life itself. Sasuke on the other hand is the echo of negativism - - pein is the sole governor of life and one must seek happiness proactively.

 Tl:dR: 'REASON' here doesn't refer to a motive as justification for love as a feeling. It reflects Sasuke's role in the manga as a great thinker, a philosopher, a man ebbed with a rational mind, critical thinking who doesn't pander to society's norms. He doesn't accept love as a self-sufficient explanation for Sakura's irrational devotion.

 Sasuke reflects the negativism of Arthur Schopenhauer's/Kant'a philosophy while Kakashi/Sakura/Naruto are the humanists with a positive worldview who deem love as universally present in any sentient being as intrinsec to the very existence of every sentient being.

 Also Kakashi's verbose assertion denotes a fallacy in his logic. Kakashi implies that 'hate' is the opposite of 'love' ans Sasuke depicts this erroneous surmise thus he cannot be swayed by Kakashi's lapses and flaws in logic.

 Let's consider the two symbols in Naruto manga, darkness and light, Naruto and Sasuke, negativism and humanism. Darkness is not the opposite of light, but the ABSENCE of it. The opposite of matter is not the anti-matter but the absence of it. Thus hate isn't the opposite of love. Using the laws of phisycs and metaphysics, the opposite of love shall be the ABSENCE of it.

 Thus once again, just like the first time when his words of wisdom failed to reach to Sasuke's heart and quell his thirst for revenge, Kakashi failed to stop Sasuke because he didn't comprehend his character as the deep rational thinker, the man who doesn't obediently follow the Life Script, the man who asks questions and wants rational answers - admittedly he never did.

 Ultimately, it boils down to the two antithesis that fundamentally cement the  grandiose skeleton of this manga: nihilism/existentialism versus idealists/utopic.

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Naruto Manga is complex

~ Understanding Naruto Manga ~

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[Phylisophy and interpretation🕯️ >>>>> than punches🥊]

... Such an infinitesimal and superficial leafing through the Manga infuriates me🤬

Naruto Manga broaches so many interesting and unique topics and far TOO MANY people still waste time into arguing whose character is stronger than the other and whose punches are stronger *sigh* 😩 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️

List of Naruto Manga themes and subjects:

1. Camaraderie - - as per particularly studied on soldiers, the bond of camaraderie between war soldiers is so strong that it stands on par with family bonds and even goes beyond; warriors are ready to die for each other and to save a friend. Same feelings and bond that's used as liaison to concept the dynamics between Ninja 3 man cells (Team 7, Team 10...);

2. Cosmogony - - the origins of the universe as imagined and depicted by the author in Naruto Universe, based on the Yin-yang dichotomy (the skeleton of the manga is constructed on the Yin and Yang parallelism - - Naruto and Sasuke);

3. Feminism and women empowerment - - the pioneers of the feminism in Naruto Manga (who also made an insidious and questionable disappearence in the parenting guide new Boruto Series 🤔 - - Tsunade and Ten Ten are a welcomed addagio in a deeply rooted patriarchal society, which should have been caresses and developed more, in addition to approaching and pulverizing the discrimination of childfreeness (see Kakashi, Gai sensei, Tsunade, Ten Ten...);

4. Politics - - needless to say that Naruto manga offers an ample introspection into politics and studies of security in a complex and intricate manner. The repertoire explores tyranny, communism, totalitarianism, democracy, anarchy, as well as the role of secret services and Intelligence (Itachi, Danzo, Uchiha, The Root), supported by illustrative characters;

5. Phylisophy and classic literature - - these avant-garde elements are a fresh dive first into the inner coordinates of every characters and highlight the author's superb analytical skills coupled wirh vast, deep savviness and knowledge of classic literature and phylisophy. Arthur Schopenhauer's nihilism, negativism and Antinatalism, Nietzche and Machiavelli's "The Prince" are just few notable examples of how the Manga's smart construction intertwines with classic notes, nuanced and valences. The entire construction and phylisophy of the Uchiha Clan is constructed based in phylisophy.

Uchiha Itachi's famous quotes paraphrase excerpts from Machiavelli's "The Prince" : "Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be - and are ruined" (his words to Sasuke prior to their battle finale - - "all men like with false preconceptions that they call reality")

"I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it" (Niccolo Machiavelli) ~~ "The current system created THIS problem... I will execute the Five Kage in the Infinite Tsukuoymi... I want to become Hokage and change the world... What I want is... REVOLUTION!" (Uchiha Sasuke 😎)

"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are." (Machiavelli) ~ "All of you, without measuring your own capacities... Had no idea of mine" and "How far are you able to see with THAT Sharingan of yours, Sasuke?" (Uchiha Itachi)

And probably the most iconic catchphrase that became the definition of the HOKAGE in the Manga "IT'S NOT TITLES THAT HONOR MEN, BUT MEN THAT HONOR TITLES" (Niccolo Machiavelli) ~~~ "You don't become Hokage to be acknowledge by everyone. The one who is acknowledged by everyone becomes the Hokage" (Uchiha Itachi).

... And examples are teeming.

You can't not love this mange, for it's abounding in brainy elements and phylosophic concepts, about the propose of life.

6. Bildungsroman - - as the German concept refers to a prose that portrays the development of a character form childhood to adulthood. Needles to say that Naruto manga is picture frame perfect definition of this principle of construction for we follow the main characters from childhood to adulthood in all the splendor of their complexity, dynamics and inner emotions.

7. Religion - - I'm always delightfully amazed at the author's genius to perfectly and objectively carry us on a journey through the phylisophy and dogmas of the Main World Religions. The elements of Buddhism and Hinduism perfectly blend with Christian notes (the Biblical reference of Eve and the original Sin are the foundation of Kaguya Otsutsuki the chakra progenitor aka Eve the first woman , Black Zetsu aka the Serpent and the Chakra Fruit aka the Apple of knowledge).

8. Love - - even though the Manga is an action oriented shonen manga, love is the antagonist feeling of pain that preserve and supports the tryumph of goodness, light, democracy and hope, as it produces the effect of catharsis or purification through Art. We have the grandios story of Sasuke and Sakura written in a sumptuous realistic romance and Naruto and Hinata as the complacent, peaceful and comfortable homey cohabitation as illustrative for an idealized family picture.

Love "come in many forms" (thank you, Uzumaki Karin) in Naruto Manga as the ultimate bond between shinobi.

9. Art and the Genius - - Deidra and Sasori are two unique, refresh and polivalent interesting characters, for they explore two themes that are rare in modern literature, namely the condition of the genius and the torment and inner demons of an artist. Their anthitetical plylosophy about the concept and the purpose of art as healing, everlasting and cathartic is brilliant. Sasori suggests that art encaptures the soul and emotions and the very "heart❤️" of the artist into a creation that preserved and defies time - art is supposed to encapute eternal beauty, art never dies, never grows old, art remains forever. While Deidra suggests that wet is a transient moment of shock, of pure visual impact that engages all the senses into a devastating "blast💣💫💥" that's irresistible and no one can escape it's fulminant powers.

The torment of the GENIUS, the hallucinating pain of a brilliant, introspective superior mind that's perceived as encompassing as harrowing and irresistible is perfectly limned through the evolution of the Manga Geniuses; all undergo tremendous physical and psychological torment that rams deep and consummate their very souls to the point where they borderline insanity and madness - Sasuke, Madara, Danzo, Itachi, Orochimaru.

10. Discrimination - - this is one of the Manga's laitmotif; nearly all the Manga conflicts stem from a form of discrimination, from the discrimination and ostracization of the Uchiha Clan and Naruto as the natural fear of the strongest from the weaker average men, to the discrimination of poor. And also we have some nuances of the discrimination of black people but the author does a great job into emphasizing their qualities (The Land of Lighting - - A, Killer B...) (I love the Rap references as the usage of art and music to voice their feelings and pain as a retort to discrimination and long-term oppression and white supremacy).

11. Paleo astronomy and ancient aliens - - that's definitely a bold, brave and new approach from the Master Masashi Kishimoto - sensei, which I can't help but applaud 👏👏👏 paleo-astronomy and ancient aliens link our terrestrial human life to extraterrestrial forms of life which dwleve deep into the origins of our hystory, existence, origins and evolution. Some claim that vestiges of their interference can be found in lost ancient temples, as well as irrefutable evidence of extraterrestrial and UFO contact with our ancestors (the Great Pyramid, the hierogliphs, the Nazca Lines, the Mayans and Inca temples, Stonehange...).

Boruto Manga revolves around the idea that Naruto Manga tossed in its closure; that aliens are in close contact with terrestrial beings. Otsutsuki Clan brought the chakra from the space and offered it to humans / Otsutsuki use the chakra to feed on themselves / Hagoromo's brother eloped to the moon and life evolved since then keeping portals on earth that connect the two planets.

And more recently, Sasuke is tracing Kaguya and the Otsutsuki while searching for ancient temples and hystorical vestiges from the Otsutsuki aliens (Kaguya's castles and ruins), just like a veritable paleo-astronomer.

Hats off for the author's avant-garde approach and vast knowledge 🎩

12. Pitagora's theorem, Euclid, the Tree of Life and Immortality - - Orochimaru in a nutshell. Orochimaru is the genius scientist who craves to defy death, obtain eternal life and endless knowledge. The basis of Pitagora's theorem has deep implications into unlocking the secrets of eternal life, as well as his geometry and Euclid's theorem; it's no coincidence that the theorem fits the construction of the Great Pyramid. And we have the Tree of the Chakra Fruit as the symbol of the Tree of Life that represents immortality and knowledge.

This list is nowhere near exhaustive, for the complexity of Naruto Manga spans further that my modest understanding of its concepts.

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~~Sasuke's Revolution~~

Analysis

{What I want is.... REVOLUTION}

This contemptuous and rather forthright cite from Sasuke is a proclamation of his character inner coordinates as Schopenhauer's philosophy shines brightly as we let ourselves be entralled by the cruel beauty of this seemingly irrational confluence of pent-up inner conflict and Sasuke's response to the ills and mals of a crumbling extraneous society that produced nothing but pain and collective conflict.⚔️

Kakashi wisely concludes in a sheer humanist rhetoric that "Sasuke is the result of the current world's flaws".🌇

His words ascerts that Naruto manga's fictional a universe, as a perfect metaphoric parallelism to the contemporary world, offers an ample overview of the consequences of a world's flaws in its detrimental uncaring decadence; a chaotic system that's governed by corruption, higher ambitions, organized crime, the usage of mass-destruction weaponry and the glutenous strive for dominance, power and conquest. 🏭🛢️🌩️

Masashi Kishimoto crayons a multi-disciplinary narrative allegory of the current world society - - mainly focused on the confluence between medieval Japanese rites intertwined with modern Japan - - where characters' evolution is presented through the technique of metaphysical introspection, which unravels their inner coordinates. ⛩️

In this case, Uchiha Sasuke is the embodiment of the contemporary world's ills in response to the psychological trauma of a system that's profit-oriented.

Kishimoto's personal view of the world rallies with humanism and its organic philosophy.

The two perspective are illustrated in the manga through the two metaphoric answersthat Naruto and Sasuke proposed in their symbolic encounter with the Eremit of the Six Paths - - an introspection into Schopenhauer's Will, congruent to the manga's thesist inclinations and Christian and Buddhist elements about Genesis, karma and cosmogony.

Naruto embodies the humanist view as unyielding trust in the innate good nature of any sentient being, which are moulded and turn into evil by extraneous conjecture.

It's the society and the environment that turns one from good to bad and it's that "turns hatred into love" ; which means that love as an omnipotent transcendental universal force of nature possesses the soul - cleansing ability to make the fallen angel return to his pure, sinless form - - a reflection of the humanist view of the manga.

Kishimoto's solution to acquire universal peace, namely adhering to the humanist view of the world proposes a respectful cohabitation between the two antithetical doctrines - - Yin and Yang harmony/ Naruto and Sasuke's cooperation.

Uchiha Sasuke, as the echo chamber of Kishimoto's empirical view of the world and personal criticism, is the paradigm of one of the two manga's supporting pillars, namely Arthur Schopenhauer's pessimism and life philosophy. The negativism and nihilism, the Antinatalism, the sublime introspection of Will as the pathway to unravel the origins of life and one's life purpose.

In his iconic objectification of Will and the way a person perceived the matter and the material world is intimately intertsined with the personal perception of his Will, or the spirit.

The entire Uchiha clan consists in an expletive repertoire of anti-heroes, whose inner character coordinates are cemented into Schopenhauer's phylisophy of Will and aesthetics.

This philosophic retoric culminates with Uchiha Itachi avidly insists that "all people live with false preconceptions that they call as reality"; alluding that the materialistic reality is nothing but the extraneous manifestation of one's internal consciousness and perception projected on the material world.

Madara's INFINITE TSUKUYOMI is the pinnacle of the Uchiha's allegory as the struggle to vanquish the major source of pain and suffering in the world - - the mindless Will, and tragedy of self-reflection and pessimist introspection.

Uchiha Itachi is one of the few key characters that represent Kishimoto's "echo" of the manga; a self insertion direct intervention from the author into the plot using the technique of self-indertion, along with Jirayia, Hashirama and Orochimaru.

Only when one would deeply and minutely look into his own soul through introspection will he unravel the enigmas of the universe.

It's the implicit apanage of the naturally reflective minds - - the condition of the genius - - to be prone to introspection. The thinker, the genius, the philosopher, are all key attributes ascribed to the uchiha clan members.

Itachi, madara, obito and sasuke are all self - thinkers by nature. Their scholastic philosophical introspection is what offers dynamics to the manga in contrast to the hero's linear life philosophy. They are reflective in their quest to unravel every iots of the world's greatest mysteries that always challenged the most brilliant minds - - scientists and philosophers all-together.

So, Sasuke's REVOLUTION must be analysed in intimate conjunction with his characters inner coordinates and the dynamics of the manga and Kishimoto's solution to acquire universal peace.

His life philosophy can be asserted as "revolutionary" in contrast to the manga's humanist view.

While Naruto's solution to universal peace proposes the preservation of the original (Hashirama's) status quo, Sasuke proposes an avant-garde idea which is meant to surmount the current flawed system with a novel one.

Similarly to Kant and Schopenhauer and their irrefutable influence aesthetics of the world, Sasuke's proclamation causes a huge shock to the audience.

His character portrayal coupled with his life philosophy and symbolism are cleverly and masterfully introduced into the manga as veiled into the aura of earth-shattering avant-garde contrast to naruto's humanist view.

The tragism of the moment wordlessly speaks for itself. Sakura, Kakashi and even Hagoromo are a sublime frame mirror of the audiences shock in front of a radical opposing life philosophy. We are just as dumbfounded by Sasuke's antithetical view as the tragism and the metaphysical stupefaction seems to transcend the inanimate page of the manga and materialize right before our eyes.

The scene is intentionally written as a veritable drama aimed to cause shock, to impress, to challenge the audience to contemplate upon our own life values and principles.

So Sasuke's revolution is a milestone moment that precedes the grand finale of the manga, namely the crossroad between the two major manga ohukosophies - - humanism and pessimism - - as a possible solution to the biggest manga quest:

How can we acquire universal peace?

One suggests that the understanding of the others soul is the answer, she the other ideology suggests that the answer of understanding the universe is to look inside our own selves. "all of you, iwhtour measuring your own power had no idea of mine", Uchiha Itachi.

Sasuke's revolution offers a solution to acquire peaceful cohabitation as self-reflection to proper understanding of the universe.

The origins of the universe resides in the metaphysical understanding of self - - Will.

Sasuke's metaphysical answer to Hagoromo is revolutionary in the sense that it proposes a divergent and completely new, radical answer in sublime anthitesis to the hero's humanist overview.

The illusory idealism offered as the manga's solution to accede to univers peace is audaciously challenged by Sasuke's revolutionary philosophy.

Sasuke's revolution incites the readers to reflect and review their own system of principles and morals and invites to self-reflection.

In Buddhism, reaching the ultimate state of tranquility and inner peace as to quench conflict and pain as acquiring "NIRVANA", can also be possible once a sentient being quenches its inner bodlity desires and cravings to connect to the flow and energy of the universe. The Buddhist ultimate goal of Nirvana also shines brightly into Sasuke's character.

Schopenhauer himself was inspired by the Buddhist phylisophy of achieving supreme peace of mind and transcendental tranquility as the sublime state of the consciousness which attended perfect communion with the universes organic intrinsec flow of universe (the chakra harmonization and control).

Sasuke's seemingly laconic, spiritless and emotionless phlegmatic character is, in reality, the representation of Schopenhauer's metaphysical aesthetic phylisophy of "sublime" and "beautiful". Schopenhauer argues that the sentient being is a slave to his own incessantly rapaceous Will which can only offer morsels of perennial pleasure that can never Last.

However, once the spirit frees himself from the shackles of Will, for it inevitably leads to pain and conflict and suffering, sublime is achieved.

Schopenhauer argues in his double-faceted subjective and objective nature of aesthetics that beauty and sublime can be attained once a sentient being cuts the bonds with his innate starving Will that's prone to incessant pain and suffering (Sasuke attempts to cut all his erstwhile bonds).

Itachi, Sasuke, Madara, Danzo Shimura, Obito or Orochimaru all crayon the same tragic inner conflict, in which the transcendental genius struggles to be freed from the nightingale cage of his own Will. Their reflective nature and the inquisitive philosophical nature creates a sublime conflict that's reflected into their every action and ambitions.

Sasuke makes it clear from the start that "I'm different from you guys. I walk a different path than you guys. I'm an avanger." in which case, Sasuke establishes his role as the tormented genius whose reflections and metaphysical phylisophy evolves in perfect in contrast to the hero's empirical idealism.

While naruto, Sakura, Kakashi, Hashirama are all governed by a linear idealism organic panteism, Sasuke devotes himself to self reflection and introspection. He's always portrayed as detached, reflective and trapped into his own chain of thoughts rather than seeking immediate pleasure by devoting himself to his Will. He isn't glutenous - - while Naruto is obsessed with ramen, Sasuke only orders plain rice - - he isn't prone to be attached to material goods and the bloom of his pubescent and adolescent years is scarce in typical behavioral traits. While most of the teenagers of his age start to explore the hedonic repertoire of their puberty, hormones and discover of own sexuality, sasuke seems rather dissimpasioned and detached.

That's yet another foolproof reflection of his character symbolism in the manga cementing the metaphysical conjunction of Buddhist philosophy of nirvana and is his sheer pessimism, nihilism and negativism.

And his ideologic revolution which inevitably led to his symbolic "I... Lost" - - implying that his nihilism / pessimism lost to naruto's humanist/ idealist doctrine - - artfully offers one last moment of glimmer of the Yang part of the manga's anti-hero aesthetics and phylisophy - the negativism, the pessimism, the nihilism in the light of Arthur Schopenhauer sprinkled with Buddhist elements.