As soon as he arrived in Vienna, Huo Yaowen not only experienced the atmosphere of the city of music, but during the two days he spent in the hotel, he could see many philosophy lovers from different countries around the world when he went out of his room, and he had a little understanding of the scale of this World Philosophy Congress.

Walking around the neighborhood with Anna, the streets were filled with banners and banners, both written in English and German: "Warmly welcome to philosophy lovers from all over the world." ”

Teacher Zhang Chengyi also took Huo Yaowen to visit Mou Zongsan in the past few days, and by the way, Tang Junyi, Lao Siguang and others from the Department of Philosophy of Hong Kong Chinese University began to talk about the world-renowned philosophical masters who came to this conference.

Professor Luke and Rector Le Pinchun also had their friends to attend the World Congress of Philosophy and visited each other for two consecutive days.

The opening ceremony of the World Congress of Philosophy in Vienna came in the blink of an eye, because there were too many people who came to participate in the philosophical exchange conference this time, and the organizers arranged lectures and discussions in various schools, auditoriums and other places in Vienna in batches according to teams and individuals.

In previous World Congresses of Philosophy, the number of invitations was generally less than 1,000, and the largest number was the 10th session after World War II in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1948, when the number of philosophers from all over the world exceeded 3,000.

But even so, not as much as today, after the restrictions on invitations were lifted, the information obtained from Vienna Airport alone and reported to the organizer's temporary office in the Vienna Auditorium reached 28,700 people.

This number can be said to be seriously exceeded.

Vienna has mixed joys and sorrows, the good news is that the number of people who come is still helpful to the city's economy, and the worry is that there is no official gymnasium in Vienna at present, and it is impossible to accept so many people to hold the opening ceremony of this conference.

Although it was not possible to gather everyone together as in previous years, the Vienna organizers racked their brains to hand over the almost 30,000 people in batches to various secondary schools and universities in Vienna, as well as a number of public and private auditoriums.

Separate individual participants from team participants.

Huo Yaowen: As a staff sent by the University of Hong Kong, they are counted as part of the team.

At eight o'clock in the morning of the third day, Huo Yaowen followed Zhang Chengyi, Professor Luke, Le Pinchun and others into the Vienna Golden Auditorium.

The Golden Auditorium, specially known as the Vienna Musikverein of the Musikverein, is also known as the Golden Hall and the Vienna Philharmonic Hall. This is the oldest and most modern concert hall in Vienna and one of the most famous concert halls in the world, with a total of 1,744 seats and 300 standing seats.

Almost all of the people who can come here to participate in the philosophical conference are teams or well-known philosophers, and the rest have long been assigned to the auditoriums or large classrooms of various schools.

Golden Auditorium.

Huo Yaowen followed behind Professor Luke and others in a decent suit, thanks to Professor Luke's reputation among British philosophers, they did get some seats, but Huo Yaowen and Anna, as young juniors, could only mix up a position.

Ten minutes passed, and the people in the hall were basically all there, and standing on the podium at this time was the famous French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, who was invited by the organizers.

Jean-Paul Sartre walked to the front of the podium with a light smile, looked at the more than 2,000 people under the stage and on the second and third floors, and said with a smile: "Good morning, gentlemen and ladies!"

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

Some of those who recognized him applauded.

Jean-Paul Sartre said with a smile: "I have participated in the World Congress of Philosophy in Paris, France in 1938, and have participated in six sessions, and each session will have people with different ideas and different questions, and today, in 1969, the 14th World Congress of Philosophy in Vienna, Austria, the organizers warmly invited me to be the opening guest of the opening ceremony, but I actually refused in my heart."

But when I went to Yale University last year to attend an exchange meeting, I heard some students ask me what is the difference between philosophy today and philosophy in the past, and what does philosophy mean to us and what value does it mean to us in today's era of rapid development of science, technology, and mankind?

I'm not here to spread this knowledge to you, because I think all of you here are wiser and more knowledgeable than I am, so I'm not going to do anything here.

Continuing the previous topic, the Vienna organizers invited more than 30,000 philosophers and philosophy enthusiasts to the venue this time, so in order to be able to indicate the theme, the organizers focused on science, technology, and people......"

After Jean-Paul Sartre's speech, many world-renowned philosophers such as Leo Strauss, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Noam Chomsky took the stage.

Huo Yaowen stood there and listened to the speech on the stage, and he was still interested at first, after all, he accepted the memory of the original owner, and he could understand many things, but it was a little boring in the back.

Anna on the other side did not blink, silently listening to the speeches of many masters who can only be seen in textbooks.

The last to take the stage was the British philosopher, mathematician, and founder of analytic philosophy, Bertrand Russell, a nearly 100-year-old man who staggered to the podium with a cane.

Bertrand Russell, born in 1872, attended the International Philosophical Conference held in Paris in 1900, and co-founded the World Congress of Philosophy with philosophers from all over the world in the same year, and was one of the founders of the World Congress of Philosophy.

"Oh my God, Mr. Russell is here too! He's almost a hundred years old!" Anna covered her mouth with a look of incredulity, as the famous British philosopher Russell, she had known since she was a student.

Huo Yaowen was also full of astonishment when he saw this, you must know that he has been studying the textbooks of the London Department of Philosophy recently, and many of them are about this.

"Science, technology, and people are the three things that are discussed at this World Philosophical Congress, but in today's world, science is developing rapidly, but many people have deviated from the original purpose of making these tools, and the U.S. government uses powerful force to wantonly invade other countries......"

Bertrand Russell, who was almost 100 years old, walked to the side of the podium, his pale hair and shriveled face, which could not hide the sharpness of his eyes, made him look very serious, and his voice was still sonorous and powerful, although it was a little lacking.

But after all, he was too old, and he was invited by the organizer just to say a paragraph, except that he didn't dare to let this old man make any mistakes at the opening of the conference, and the rest was that he didn't want to involve the philosophy conference in politics.

In '67, when the American-Vietnamese War broke out, Bertrand Russell, together with Jean-Paul Sartre, the first speaker, established a civil tribunal known as the "Russell Tribunal" to expose American war crimes.

Eighty percent of the reason for attending the philosophical conference this time, despite his advanced age, was to publicize his own Russell court, so as to attract more people in the philosophical community to jointly expose the evil deeds of the United States in the war.

Politics is something that many people are passionate about, and this matter was publicly disclosed by Bertrand Russell at the conference, and it has been the focus of discussion at the conference in the following days.

Even a group of philosophers from the United States have unceremoniously joined some friends or philosophers from all over the world to jointly criticize the war crimes of the United States government.

However, after all, the philosophical conference was not a place to talk about politics, and within a few days, this trend gradually faded, and nearly ninety percent of the tens of thousands of people who came to Vienna to attend the philosophical conference were discussing two ideological issues.

One of them is the "tram problem" that Huo Yaowen argued with the ghosts in the restaurant before, and the other is the "brain in a jar" that Huo Yaowen and Anna unintentionally brought up during their conversation with the team sent by the University of London!

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