Preface
Acknowledgments
About This Book
Introduction and Principles of Sacrifices
COVID-19 Crisis and Its Sacrifices
An AI-Enhanced Society After the COVID-19 Crisis
International Affairs Against Crisis of the After Corona
Conclusion
Contents
Introduction
A Worldview Seen from Sacrifices
1 Posing the Questions
2 Unveiling the Reality by a Perspective of “Sacrifices”
2.1 Invisible But Important
2.2 The Distribution of Sacrifices
3 Life and Money
3.1 Equal and Indiscriminate Measurement
3.2 Same Democracy But Different Meaning
3.3 Inequality as a Result? Or An Institutional Flaw?
4 For Living with the Others in the World
4.1 Recognizing Each Dignity
4.2 Emergent Evils Derived from the Highest Good
5 Condemnation and Atonement
6 Triggering Global Tensions to Rise Conflicts
7 Repeating Historical Events as Déjà Vu
8 As a Contemporary Review of the Social Theories
References
Crises, Risks and Sacrifices
1 On Crisis, Risk and Sacrifice
1.1 How to Think About Crisis, Risk and Sacrifice
1.2 Definitions and Differences on Crisis, Risk and Sacrifice
1.3 Definitions on the Principles of Distribution of Sacrifices
1.4 Sociological Categorization on Crisis, Risk and Sacrifice
2 Measuring and Quantifying Methodologies
2.1 As Social Scientific Studies
2.2 Risk Assessment
2.3 Pareto Efficient in Economic Models
2.4 Cost–Benefit, Expected Utility and QOL
2.5 Balance of Power and Allocation by Contributions
2.6 Equality and Relative Deprivation
2.7 Preference and Priority Order
2.8 Priority for Economic Utility or QOL
2.9 Resilience
2.10 Systematizing Analysis on Crisis, Risk, and Sacrifice
2.11 System Modeling and Improving Bottlenecks
3 Rule of Conduct of the Science and Technology at the Crisis
References
COVID-19 Crisis
A Crisis of COVID-19 and Its Sacrifices
1 A Crisis to Confront with the COVID-19 Pandemic
1.1 WHO Charter, International Health Regulations, and Pandemic Declaration
1.2 Outbreak
1.3 Causes of Infectious Diseases
1.4 Symptom and Diagnosis of COVID-19
1.5 Statistics
1.6 Number of Hospitals, Beds, Doctors, and the Status as a System
1.7 What Are Definitive Factors of the COVID-19?
1.8 What Corona Brought?
2 Discussion Based on the Distribution of Sacrifice
2.1 Quid Pro Quo
2.2 Political Attitudes
2.3 Policy Priority in the COVID-19 Pandemic
3 Social Theory on Crisis
3.1 How Differences Are Between Westness and Eastness?
3.2 The Sacrifices Conjoined With Habermas’s Social Theory on Crises
4 Conclusion: What We Need to Learn from Misrule
References
Formalizing Models on COVID-19 Pandemic
1 Introduction
2 Public Health by Digitized Solution
3 Modeling for the Solution
3.1 Estimation of Mingled Condition: Solving the Geometric Covering Problem
4 Simulations
4.1 Single Space: City and Closed Space
4.2 Mobility Dynamics Across Multiple Spaces
5 For Balancing Health Care and Economics
5.1 Spatial Zoning by Mathematical Methods
5.2 M/M/S Model on Public Health Issues in System Science
5.3 The Importance of Modeling for Public Health and Infection Prevention Planning
6 Discussion
Appendix
References
AI and Our Society
AI Driven Scoring System and “Reward or Punish” Based on a Theory of Han Fei
1 Human Resources for Economic Development
2 A Theory of Han Fei and AI Scoring Services
2.1 Han Fei
2.2 Meeting Between Han Fei and the AI
2.3 Descending a Perfect World
2.4 The China’s Hands Over the World
2.5 Chinese Capitalism and AI Driven Valuation
3 Rising Issues on Valuation by the AI
4 Moral Science
5 Measuring Compensation
6 AI Driven Valuation System and The Dignity of the Humanity
7 Conclusion: From Genome Analysis to Human Control
References
Five Virtues to Be Digitized Norms
1 A New Normal
2 What Is an Individual’s the Highest Value and Its Equivalent?
2.1 Cooperation with Each Other
2.2 Discerning a Meaning of Two Sacrifices
3 A System as Culture
3.1 Embedding in Social Norms
3.2 Labor as Self-Sacrifice or Not in Cultural Backgrounds
4 Five Virtues
4.1 Looking Chinese System on the Morality
4.2 Five Virtues at the COVID-19 Pandemic
4.3 Five Virtues in the Digitized World
5 Conclusion
References
Synchronizing Everything to the Digitized World
1 Cyberspace to be Synchronized
1.1 Cyberspace
1.2 Decoupling Worlds
1.3 Warning of Mill’s “On Liberty”
2 AI Driven Cyberspace to Monitor the Humanity
2.1 Moral Standardized and Monitored by the AI
2.2 Spinoza and His Discussions
2.3 The Ubiquity of the AI
2.4 Relations Between East Asia Culture and the Ubiquity of the AI
2.5 Changing to Digital Memory in Cyberspace
2.6 The General Will and the Ubiquity of AI
2.7 What If Maximizing AI Driven System of Surveillance and Rewarding
2.8 Beyond the True Liberalism
3 Conclusion: Decoupling or Fusing Each Other
References
A Living Way in the Digitized World
1 Science of Careers and Life Style in the AI Driven Age
2 The Nature and Limit of the “Capitalism With Democracy
2.1 Sacrifice Over the Privilege of Freedom and Democracy
2.2 A Question
2.3 Factors of Disparity
2.4 Basic-Income
2.5 Living Ways in the Democracy
3 Changing the World
3.1 Natural Environment
3.2 Necessary Services
3.3 Living Ways After the Pandemic
3.4 A Necessary Person in the Age of the After Corona
4 A Comparative Cultural Study of Identity and Way of Life
4.1 Identification to Commit in the Nation
4.2 Selection
4.3 Networking as Social Selection
4.4 Social Decoupling as Emerging Social Stratification
4.5 Knowing Yourself: A Study on Expansion from Sociometer Theory
4.6 Human Relationship During a Period of the Three Kingdoms in Ancient China
5 Conclusion
References
International Affairs Against Crisis of the After Corona
A New World in Motion
1 After Corona: Reshaping the New World Order
1.1 Global Shift of the After Corona
1.2 Reforming Regimes Among the Nations?
1.3 The Four Horsemen
2 Morgenthau's Prospects
3 China Risks
4 Conclusion
References
Digitized Shifts of Regime and Hegemony
1 On Sacrifices in Political Crisis
2 A Turning Point of the Regime
2.1 The Dynasty Change in China
2.2 What is a Meaning of Revolution in the Western Democracy?
3 Digitized Ways as Cyber-Warfare
3.1 State Governance in the Age of AI
3.2 Governance and National Security
3.3 Sharp Power: Digitized Vulnerability of Democracy
4 On Simulations of the Societies
5 Conclusion
References
On Balance of Power
1 Global Tensions Beyond the Cold War
1.1 What Happened to Equilibrium and the “New World Order” Through International Cooperation After SARS?
1.2 America is Back
1.3 Balance of Power
1.4 The Brinkmanship of the Third World War
1.5 The Kant’s Triangle for Perpetual Peace
1.6 What is “Acceptance” of Sacrifices?
1.7 Peaceful Situations or Not
2 Computational Modeling for Balance of Power
2.1 How to Model a Social Simulation on Balance of Power?
2.2 Models of Opinion Dynamics
2.3 Shapley-Shubik Power Index
2.4 Simulation of Dynamics on Balance of Power
3 Discussion
4 Conclusion
References
For Strategies in the Age of After Corona
1 Power Shift from Westness to Eastness as a Hegemony of the Nation?
1.1 New Chaos or Order
1.2 Where is Japan Heading?
1.3 Clash of Civilization?
2 On Cultural Differences and Identity
2.1 Category to Divide Self and the Others
2.2 Identity Matters
2.3 What is Next Ideological Factor?
2.4 The Ubiquity of AI and the International Affairs
3 Balance of Power Between Westness and Eastness
3.1 A Matrix Between Westness and Eastness
3.2 OBOR and AIIB
3.3 Balance of R&D Between Both Sides
3.4 Military Balance
3.5 SWOT Analysis
3.6 Japan’s Future
4 What is the Critical Factors for Cooperation?
4.1 Cooperation Beyond the Differences
4.2 Sacrifices and Cooperation
4.3 Seven Factors for Cooperation
5 Critical Thinking on Sacrifices in Crisis
5.1 Collaborative Education Design for Critical Thinking
5.2 Practical Exercises
6 Concluding Remarks
References
Conclusion
Conclusion
1 Concluding Remarks
2 For Coordinating International Issues
3 On the Nature of State Governance in the Age of After Corona
4 Final Words
References
Further References
Index