Chapter 24: Love and Wisdom
The ancient Greeks defined philosophy as "love and wisdom", which opened up a broad sky for modern Western philosophy, and also set the tone for Western religious thought, and finally pushed various scientific discoveries and technological inventions of the West to the forefront of world civilization and formed a way of thought for the whole world to learn.
The reason is that Western philosophy understands "wisdom" and "love" separately. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
What is wisdom? Wisdom is economic development. Wisdom is what the Chinese think of as economic prosperity. "Yi Tun": "Yunlei Tun, a gentleman is a gentleman." Kong Yingda Shu: "The warp is the warp and weft, and the lun is the outline, and the gentleman is said to be like a promising time, and the world is bound by the world." "Wisdom is like a road network with thousands of ends of warp and weft, orderly and regular, extending in all directions and having a clear economy. Wisdom is a network of latitude and longitude, with a goal and access to thousands of miles, a clear route without losing boundaries, a grand scale and an orderly order. Wisdom can expand infinitely without rational constraints, such as a smooth road and a load of thousands of miles. "With the economy of the world, constrained by things. "Reach the world and keep wisdom.
Wisdom is the basis for reality and the practice of practice. Wisdom respects only practice and does not care about morality and ethics. Wisdom can be shaped, it can be innovated, and it cannot be limited. Wisdom resides in the spirit of all things, regardless of circumstances.
Alphago, developed by Google, defeated Lee Sedol to fully reflect the "wisdom" of Westerners Some Go masters have seen the fierce battle between AlphaGo and Lee Sedol and believe that AlphaGo's Go routines are not limited to long-term games, but more from reality, with the goal of defeating the opponent, only from the intuitive view of the problem, and do not need too long-term thinking to take every step, which makes the opponent have no expectations, but makes it difficult for the opponent to figure out what to do next, this mode of thinking is the concrete embodiment of modern pragmatism in the West.
Go is the wisdom of the Chinese, and the principle of Go comes from Zhou Yi. The wisdom of the Chinese can be fully understood from the game of Go, and the Chinese, due to the influence of the I Ching, often look at three moves or even thirty moves in the game of Go. In the thinking of Chinese, it is always a roller-like thinking mode, always going deep into things to confuse to find answers to questions, is this thinking mode correct?
From a practical point of view, this mode of thinking often complicates the development of things, and simplifies it, and the psychology of Chinese "changeable, changeable" comes from this.
In life, you often see that the roads built by the Chinese are broken, repaired and changed, and the high-rise buildings built by the Chinese are blown up before they are completed. A few days ago, three unfinished high-rise buildings of Kweichow Moutai Distillery were blown up, and the teaching building of Wuhan University was blown up, which is the best example of the way of thinking of Chinese. Whatever the reason, why blow up a tall building that has already become a fact?
The most important reason for this is that the Chinese do not pay attention to the preliminary research of the development of things, blindly get on the horse, cross the river by feeling the stones, pass in the past, drown if they can't pass, and don't know what the cause is when they die. This is also Yi Zhongtian's psychological expression of "Hundred Lectures". Chinese blindly drill into the development of things to look at the problem, simple and rude, but do not look at the direction of the development of things, do not pay attention to preliminary research, do not set the boundaries of the development of things, only drill into the interior of things and things to mix together and roll development, and finally feel the stones to cross the river, the past will pass, if you can't pass, you will drown, if you do not succeed, you will become benevolent, and things will be burned with glory.
Westerners, on the other hand, tend to look at people and things separately, and Westerners look at "love and wisdom" separately to illustrate this problem.
Wisdom is intelligence, a method for observing the development of things, and a means for studying the development of things, that is, the scientific means that the Chinese think. Wisdom and love are independent thoughts, and wisdom does not care about rules and morals. Wisdom is out of discretion, willful innovation, there are no established rules, only new exploration.
What is love? Love is a persistent pursuit. Love is the love of a certain kind of thing, love has a classification, love can be a dynamic expression, or it can be a static attachment. Love is not limited to people, but only people most perfectly express the essence of love, which is a kind of cherishing, loving, and sincere love, or love, for people.
"Love" is not only a sincere emotion between people, but also a system of rules and regulations between people, and love is a responsibility and obligation. Love is still a moral standard, even if morality does not require commitment to responsibility, but love has a standard, there is a maximum upper limit, and there is a minimum lower limit.
Love is not wisdom, wisdom can expand infinitely, but love is not disordered action.
Love is the source or reason for the code of human behavior, love is the source of "the way of human beings", and it is the code of "man is the measure of all things". "Love" is limited to human beings, and it is an expression of emotions limited to human beings within a specific category of the philosophical world. Therefore, from the perspective of love, there should be persistent and sincere mutual love between people, and human beings should cherish their hard-won self and use the law code of "man is the measure of all things" to formulate a suitable legal system or industry standard suitable for everyone to abide by.
We can understand the "love and wisdom" in the philosophical principle in this way, the starting point of the emergence of social civilization and social order in human beings is that human beings have special "wisdom" that surpasses all species in this world, and have a specific "love" that surpasses all species.
From this, it can be understood that "love and wisdom" has formed a human knowledge beyond nature, if "wisdom" is attributed to the material basis, then "love" is the soul world, spiritual realm, consciousness concept, "love" is the law code and scale that affects "wisdom", and all the codes of conduct formulated by human society are the concrete embodiment of "love", which is why Westerners believe that there is a "god" in this world.
In China, the three major religions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in China are all atheists, and Buddhism has also become an atheistic sect under the influence of traditional Chinese scientific thought.
Due to religious beliefs, Chinese do not believe in God, so what is "God"? What is "God"? To be precise, "God" is self-consciousness, also called self-concept, from everyone's self, that is to say, everyone has their own "God", their own soul level, consciousness realm, spiritual induction, concept proposition, collectively referred to as ideology. "God" is the force that supports human life, comes from the human spleen system, is the primordial force that governs the operation of blood vessels, and is the primordial power that sustains life.
As I have already said, traditional Chinese culture comes from traditional Chinese science, which in turn comes from China's natural science, that is, "Zhou Yi", which is the study of finding natural laws, and only exists in the study of material conditions, and does not recognize the existence of ideology. Generally speaking, "Zhou Yi" is a pure study of the material world, and the spiritual realm is only regarded as a material condition, and the spiritual world is not classified and studied as an independent principle. Therefore, the products derived from "Zhou Yi" are all knowledge that lacks soul and spirit, that is, the knowledge that lacks "God".
To be precise, traditional Chinese culture has no relationship with Western philosophy, and even does not belong to the category of materialism, because the materialism in philosophy also recognizes the existence of "God" and the existence of the soul and spirit that govern life.
However, traditional Chinese science is the study of completely denying the existence of "gods," and thus forming that China's religious culture is an atheistic culture, so what kind of "gods" are enshrined in China's three major religions? To be precise, the "gods" worshiped by the ancient Chinese were not "gods," but saints, immortals, or saviors.
What kind of god does Confucianism worship? Not a god, but a saint, a moral model.
What kind of god does Taoism worship? Not gods, but immortals, liberals.
In the area influenced by Chinese science, Buddhism worships the savior, if it is precise, the person who can make the suffering of the lower class people reminisce, the celestial beings who narrate the suffering, or the navigator of the soul after death.
To be more precise, the "gods" worshiped by Confucianism are all superstructure model workers, moral models, social elites, justices of the peace, and so on. The "gods" worshipped by Taoism are the Heavenly Mother Earth, the oligarchs of the industry, the bustards, the liberals, and so on. The "gods" enshrined in Buddhism should be called "psychological hopemakers" or "spiritual engineers" for the poor, and more realistically, they should be called "heavenly people who spit out their sufferings and lonely hearts"; the Buddha is not a "god" in the hearts of the Chinese, but a savior for the lower classes of Chinese people to pray for the resolution of suffering, and a navigator to heaven after death.
So what exactly is "God"?
God is me, I am God, God is the force that sustains my life!
Therefore, it is very accurate to say that China is a country of atheistic religion, and if you look at the gods that Chinese worship, you can know why China is a country of atheistic religion.
In ancient China, Confucianism was metaphysical and held the superstructure for more than 1,000 years; Taoism was the middle consciousness, which flowed among the scholars, merchants, and wealthy people, and the gossip of Qimen and Feng Shui Dunjia, which manipulated the ideology of the class; Buddhist culture came from the Western Regions, and its original intention was to promote good and punish evil, but because it could not influence the great sage of Confucianism, it could not be the enemy of Taoism and the wonder of the fairy world, so it could only come to the people to listen to the people's narration of bitterness.
Therefore, it is said that there is no philosophy in China, and the Chinese's understanding of ideological methodology all comes from the Chinese's understanding of natural science, that is, the natural view of the universe recognized by the I Ching, from which all the ideas of Confucius and Lao Tzu are derived, and the ideas of the Chinese come from these two sages, and in the thoughts of these two sages, they completely deny the existence of "God" exists, the doctrine they created is a doctrine that purely studies matter, and there is no theistic argument, then the doctrine of atheism is not philosophy, philosophy fully recognizes the existence of soul and spirit, of course, it is a theistic doctrine, so the doctrine of atheism can only be a Chinese rational doctrine, which is attributed to "primitive reason".
Atheists' lack of understanding of "love" is inevitable, so the Chinese have not cherished life since ancient times, and the Chinese have been influenced by the I Ching and the simplicity of the ancient texts, making the Chinese mistakenly believe that Confucianism and Taoism have an understanding of "human nature, personality, and life". In particular, after the emergence of Zhu Xi in the Song Dynasty, he put forward the ideological proposition of "learning from things" politically and advocating "poor heavenly reasoning and enlightened people" in behavior, so that the Chinese have always believed that Confucianism and Taoism do not lack understanding of human nature, and the political forces of society developed to the Ming and Qing dynasties completely following this ideological proposition to develop society, completely controlling the feudal dynasty on the ideological line of feudal etiquette and religion, and controlling it on the orbital development, which eventually led to the Chinese losing their way and unable to advance towards a civilized society and entering a dead end.
Chinese people do not understand what "love" is, there is no "love" at all under the control of traditional Chinese scientific thinking methods, only focus on the development of the rail system, even if the society has developed to this day, Chinese do not understand what is "love" between people.
"Love" in a strict sense, is limited to "human" kinds, beyond the scope of human beings, there is no "love" at all, because "love" is a psychological manifestation of human beings expressing their persistent mutual concern and mutual care between people, and this psychological manifestation is only human beings can communicate and transmit to each other, and there is no love at all without human beings.
What is love? Love is the cherishing and cherishing of the self among human beings. Human beings can come to this world, not how lucky or great human beings are, in fact, human beings are very fragile and small like any animal in the world, just a speck of dust in the universe, which may be blown away by the cosmic wind at any time, so human beings should love and cherish each other.
Human beings should not only cherish each other, love each other, but also cherish their hard-won self, Westerners due to the influence of Western philosophy, between people respect "human nature, personality, life" is much higher than that of Easterners.
Strictly speaking, from a philosophical point of view, the first thing human beings should do is to cherish and cherish each other. Human society should cherish everyone's right to be born, the right to exist, and the right to die. Otherwise, the existence of a state apparatus has no meaning, and the existence of a government that has nothing to do with the people is the same as the non-existence of the people, and has no practical significance.
If a state only guarantees the interests of a few, only the right to be born, the right to exist, and the right to die, then the existence of the state is only for the sake of power politics, and the beneficiaries are only a few people in the superstructure, then such a state apparatus is also meaningless to the people.
A country that fully understands love first protects the right of every life, the dignity of death, and the well-being of existence, and the first thing that the state finances protect is the right of life, the dignity of death, and the well-being of existence.
What is the foundation of a country? It is to guarantee the right of every person to live, the dignity of death, and the well-being of existence, and only these rights of the people are guaranteed, and then the financial security of the army, the government, schools, and so on. Because if a country does not have its people, then the country does not exist. The people are the promoters of the state apparatus, and the personnel of the army, government, schools, and other institutions do not guarantee the operation of the state apparatus, and these people cannot create any social value, and all the benefits of these people come from the interests of the people, and from the taxes collected from the people.
State officials are only full-time personnel hired by the people to serve the people, so these people who serve the people should be below the people, not above the people. The activation of the state apparatus and the redistribution of social wealth depend on them, but it is their responsibility and obligation to defend the right to live, the right to exist, and the right to die, and they are by no means the first group of people to get vested interests, these people will always be the servants of the people.
In the national consciousness, the first guarantee is the right of every citizen to live, the right to save, and the right to die, and the second guarantee is the public servants who eat the people's food and receive the people's wages.
When public servants redistribute the wealth of the people, should they ask themselves whether they value the existence of the people with love? When you distribute wealth, when you get wealth that is higher than the people, do you think that this wealth is not created by you, you just take it from the hands of the people, it is for redistribution, how do you redistribute this wealth to the people, not yourself.
Let every public servant know that he does not create wealth, but he holds a large amount of people's wealth, and how I should redistribute this wealth to the people.
This is a course that the Chinese should make up, the reason is that there is no such course in traditional Chinese science, in China's bureaucratic atmosphere, there is only "the book has its own golden house, the book has its own Yan Ruyu", and what should really be there, with human "love" to formulate strict industry standards, laws and regulations suitable for human beings to abide by by the Chinese heart, the important reason is still that the Chinese have no "God" in their hearts.
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