Chapter 43: How to Integrate the Wolf and Sheep Faces of Humans

Human civilization began with the spread, inheritance and reproduction of intellectual wealth. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Throughout the Eastern and Western cultures, as long as it involves materialism, whether it is Western philosophical materialism or Chinese Confucianism, it cannot escape the scope of dualism. Among Western philosophers, Kant is the first person to systematically discuss materialism, and Kant's philosophy has always expounded the rational thinking of Western philosophy, and put forward three major criticisms, namely "Critique of Pure Reason", "Critique of Practical Reason" and "Critique of Judgment". Trying to break the idealistic bottom line of Socratic philosophy and forming a new philosophical concept, philosophers who held materialist views emerged in an endless stream after Kant, and tried to verify the correctness of materialist views and prove the rationality of rational thinking through practice, but through nearly two centuries of practice, it was proved that Kant's philosophy was not feasible, rationalism could not push human civilization to a new height, and almost all the world's practitioners of physicalist thought failed and reached a dead end. As a result, modern philosophers have had to return to the origin of Socratic philosophy and re-explore the way forward of human thought and civilization.

Actually, the reason is very simple, because the foundation of physicalism is dualism, which belongs to intuitive reason. For example, if you look at the country with two eyes, what you get is an intuitive conclusion, the state is a country composed of kings and ministers, you see the family, the family is a family composed of husband and wife, father and son, etc., you see the object, the object is the object of yin and yang, this is the first conclusion of your rationality when you see matter. Therefore, whether it is Eastern theory or Western philosophy, as long as you put matter first, what you get is a dualistic result, and you simply cannot go beyond the scope of the dualistic structure, beyond the intuitive rational world that you see with both eyes.

If you go beyond the primacy of material conditions, then you are no longer materialistic.

The reason is as simple as that, don't look at Kant's philosophical theories are very magnificent, the huge works are endless, and the subsequent physicalist philosophers are so grandiose additions, even then you can't jump out of the tight spell of dualism. The reason is that as long as you put the material foundation first, you will see the two poles of yin and yang, and you will not be able to see the idealistic world of the third pole. If you see the world of idealism at the third pole, it's not materialism, it's idealism. Because when you look at the third pole, the other two poles are not in a straight line, which forms the three corners of the triangle.

Physics tells us that the structure of matter is two poles, the South Pole and the North Pole, that is, the cathode and the anode, where the same sex attracts and the opposite sex repulses. Therefore, you can't see the third pole with intuitive observation, and the third pole only exists in the imaginary space of objective thinking, and if you use your mind to imagine a third pole, then you are not materialist, and you have entered the mental space of idealism. Because as long as you think with your heart, you have entered the level of objective idealism, and put ideology on the first nature, and the truth is so simple.

Therefore, anyone who holds the view of physicalism is a person who thinks intuitively and rationally, and it is impossible for him to become a person who thinks contemplatively and idealistically. Due to the limitations of basic ideas, the ideological foundation of physicalism cannot go beyond the interface of intuitive rational thinking, and can only stay at the level of closed dualistic thinking, which cannot push social development to a new level.

Therefore, modern philosophers have returned to the starting point of Socratic philosophy and debated the succession of philosophy, while Orientals have also returned to the origin of science to find a new path of social development.

Socratic philosophy in the enlightenment proposition is very narrow, only in the "know yourself" to start philosophical thinking, this is the starting point of Western philosophy, to know oneself, with one's own wisdom and love to discover and find one's own purpose of life. That is, "Who am I, where do I come from, and where am I going?" This is the brilliance of Western philosophy.

Westerners start from exploring the essence of human beings, starting from the imagination space that people have, looking for the weaknesses of human nature, promoting the positive spirit of goodwill of human nature by transforming the defects of human nature, and expounding profound life philosophy in simple language, so that people can easily understand what kind of fighting spirit is needed on the broad road of life.

However, Chinese culture starts from exploring the laws of matter, looking for the regularity of matter, and the theoretical framework is very grand, but the goal of the research is very narrow, that is, to formulate the standard of human behavior by analyzing the regularity of matter, and to describe the simple legal principles of life in esoteric language, so that it is difficult for people to understand what kind of wisdom people need to use to reach the other side of success.

The generation of philosophical ideas comes from the influence of the geographical environment of the Greek peninsula, and all the regions where philosophical ideas are produced have a common characteristic, that is, the geographical environment is complex, the living conditions are harsh, and people have to fight against nature in order to survive. In the coastal areas, human beings need to rely on the marine economy and nomadic economy to maintain their survival and development, so the people here are born with the spirit of trade, and they are very respectful of cooperative relations, which has a root effect with the wolf culture. So you will see that the spirit of solidarity in coastal and nomadic areas is generally better than that in agricultural areas.

Wenzhou region in China has this kind of culture of production soil, Wenzhou's geographical environment is close to the Greek peninsula, agricultural land is very little and the land is barren, the living environment is harsh, so Wenzhou people's culture naturally has philosophical cultural ideas, Wenzhou people do not exclude commerce, and attach great importance to open trade and cooperative relations. Wenzhou people do business, one person has a need, the whole village to finance, the spirit of unity and cooperation is obvious, Wenzhou people support young people to go to other places to develop and start a business. This phenomenon originates from the coastal trade culture, which in turn is the basis for the emergence of philosophical ideas.

The Confucian culture along the Yellow River in the Central Plains is produced in agricultural production, and the rich land along the river basin gives people a self-sufficient living environment, which does not need a cooperative mechanism to survive, so Confucianism emphasizes the laws of nature, respects heaven and earth, and the legal principles under the above system, and does not emphasize the brave and fearless warrior spirit and the trade fashion of unity and cooperation, but focuses on the implementation of the harmonious spirit of the elegant and flexible herd effect, and emphasizes agriculture and suppresses business. Therefore, Confucianism attaches importance to the golden mean, and Taoist culture attaches importance to the watery spirit of goodness and water, and you will naturally see the phenomenon that one Chinese is a dragon and three people are worms. This is inseparable from the culture along the river.

The spirit of harmony and stability of the sheep is only limited to the external peaceful environment, and the sheep do not interfere with each other in the peaceful natural environment, but once they are threatened or acted by external forces, the sheep will scatter and flee, so the sheep spirit is an independent personality and lacks the spirit of unity.

The spirit of wolf solidarity comes from the wolf's strong demand for the living environment, most of the external conditions for the survival of the wolf are harsh natural environment, and the living space is narrow, so a good spirit of unity and cooperation is needed to ensure the survival and continuation of the wolf pack, so the wolf spirit is not afraid of external impacts, the more external threats, the greater the pressure, the more it can show the firm quality of the wolf nature, and the more it can reflect the unity spirit of the wolf pack. The wolf's claws have always been open to the outside world, so you will see that the reason why the U.S. gun control law has never been passed by Congress is here, if one day the Americans' gun control is as good as China's, then the wolf spirit of the Americans will also be transformed, and the spirit of aggression and expansion will not exist.

If a nation only emphasizes the harmonious coexistence of sheep nature, and does not cultivate the wolf spirit of the nation, then the nation will not be too far from being enslaved. However, blindly emphasizing the wolf spirit will sow the root of war.

So how to integrate these two cultures, raise dualism to the interface of tripartism, and integrate it into the tripartite theory, and form an organic fusion of sheep nature and wolf spirit, is the key topic of modern philosophers. How to break through the intuitive yin and yang poles and rise thinking to the space of multipolar change is the bottleneck of philosophical thought, and the key to the problem is that if you put ideology in front, then you must deny the materialist viewpoint that the material basis is the first nature and agree with the theoretical framework of idealism. If you hold both a materialist viewpoint and an idealist ideology, then you are holding a unique style of political philosophy, which is the basis of the "knot in five" methodology, and is a completely new interface for social development, and this stage of social development has not yet arrived.

On the basis of the ideological method of "knot in five", the ideological method of the two-in-one theory and the three-part theory are integrated. This is also the path that must be followed by Eastern and Western civilizations. The reason is very simple, in Western civilization, the development of the idea of three points has been close to a thousand years, but the Western civilization has not reached the most perfect goal of human civilization, the reason is that under the practice of the idea of three points, the social polarization is serious, the gap between the poor and the rich is huge, a small number of rich people have the vast majority of social wealth, while the laborers who create wealth can not get tangible benefits, and social contradictions are prominent, so the Westerners choose to strengthen the legal system and establish a large police force to maintain the normal operation of the idealistic social system。

It can be seen that the wolf side of the idealistic social system is very obvious, and politics and the rule of law are also set up around the interests of the powerful rich. Now, looking back at the history of the development of human civilization, the protection of the interests of the poor can be reflected and preserved in the sheep culture, that is to say, in the materialist theory of "two-in-one," we can find the idea of flattening the gap between the rich and the poor, but the theory of two-in-one is a closed feudal ideology, with the color of power politics, which is not recognized in countries with a full three-point system, so how can we realize the ideal road of social development that everyone can be satisfied with?

This is precisely the topic to be studied after the development of human civilization has reached the point of merging in two, dividing into three, and standing in four.