Chapter 11: Existence Is Reasonable

Hegel's rejection of Eastern philosophy, including Chinese science, was largely unrecognized. Pen ~ Fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info He believes that traditional Chinese science "does not belong to the subject matter and scope of what we are talking about now...... We mention it only to show why we don't say much about it" (Hegel, Philosophical Lectures, vol. 1). He believes that there is no philosophy in China, only some common-sense moral lessons, "we have not yet found philosophical knowledge here", and "real philosophy starts from the West".

Hegel read the Chinese Tao Te Ching and believed that Chinese science can only be called thought, and the culture of the Greeks is called philosophy, and concluded: "Therefore, the Tao is 'the primordial reason, which produces the universe and dominates the universe, just as the spirit dominates the body.'" ’”

What does Hegel explain in a few simple sentences, it shows that the historical process of the development of traditional Chinese science to the end of the Qing Dynasty and the end of the Republic of China is reasonable, and the fundamental reason that it cannot form a complete philosophy lies in the fact that traditional Chinese science is primitive rationality and has not been separated from the influence of the view of nature on Chinese science, and all theories produced by traditional Chinese thought without the influence of natural science are reflections of objective reality.

This sentence is not easy to understand, in layman's terms, when you look at the world with two eyes, what you see, you see the real material conditions, your brain will inevitably present a real reflection of reality, you will look at the problem from the perspective of real existence, you will inevitably produce the dialectical thinking that the objective existence of matter is the first, and put the conscious association in the position of the second nature, your world view will inevitably be the original intuitive world, belonging to the category of materialism. You will inevitably have the idea of "convincing people with reason" and "convincing people with reason", which is "primitive reason", which is only the initial stage of philosophy, and belongs to the norms of thought and morality, not the category of philosophy.

This is contrary to the original intent of philosophy, which is a rational world that is higher than reality, a product of sublimation from objective conditions to the world of subjective consciousness, and belongs to the category of superstructure. It is the transformation of the original consciousness generated by the "absolute concept" or "absolute spirit" to see the world, through the "absolute spirit" to transform the objective world that human beings see with their eyes, see the natural laws, social phenomena, humanistic spirit, etc., express the different stages of the development of things through the "absolute concept", explain the whole process of the development of things from existence to disappearance, show the value and significance of the "absolute spirit", understand the world through the "absolute spirit" of human beings, and sublimate the "absolute concept" of human beings to realize the upper space is bound to be a purely idealistic intellectual interface.

I'll give you an example, and you'll understand.

For example, the spirit of Lei Feng and the spirit of the iron man Wang Jinxi belong to the use of people's "absolute spirit" to dominate the scope of the objective existence of things, and to the category of pure idealism, because when you use "absolute will" to change the existence of "absolute reality", your spirit must be the first nature, and the material is the second nature, and you are the factual consequence of the influence of pure idealistic thought.

We must not misdefine philosophical terms, implement abstract concepts into philosophy, and make people unable to understand the true meaning of philosophy.

The task and purpose of philosophy is to use the "absolute spirit" of human beings to change the conclusive study of objective reality. To sum up past experience, use existing wisdom, use natural science principles to convert the entire process of the development of things from existence to extinction, reveal the regularity of the development of things, and explore the dialectical relationship that exists in the process of things growing and disappearing, that is, the Chinese believe that the world begins with one, merges in two, divides into three, becomes four, ends in five, follows in six, leaves from seven, is easy to eight, returns to nine, and completes in ten, but the Chinese cannot sublimate these theories, and eventually play to destroy their own theories.

Hegel's philosophical outlook is based on the theory of "divided into three", "formed in four" and "easy eight", focusing on the three stages of self-development of the "absolute spirit", the logical stage, the natural stage, the spiritual stage, and the absolute spirit. It is the end of the theory of "divided into three" and the beginning of the theory of "made into four".

In the logical stage there are three stages, namely, existence, essence, and concept.

There are also three levels in the natural stage, namely mechanical, physical, and organic.

In the spiritual stage, there are also three stages, namely the subjective spirit (individual consciousness), the objective spirit (social consciousness) and the absolute spirit. The subjective spirit (individual consciousness) and the objective spirit (social consciousness) are divided into three levels. The subjective spirit is divided into three levels: soul, consciousness and spirit. The objective spirit is divided into three stages: abstract, moral, and ethical.

The absolute spirit is a summary of all the above-mentioned views of "opposition and unity", and it is a philosophical summary of the "idea and existence" of the development of things from the perspective of human beings.

This is Hegel's great contribution to human philosophy, on the other hand, traditional Chinese science, clinging to the yin and yang world of "merging in two", resulting in the inability of Chinese science to sublimate, resulting in the inability of philosophical theories to be correctly defined, and finally washed up on the beach and stranded cannot be avoided. If you can't elevate your mind to the interface of the "absolute spirit", you are not a philosophy, you can only be regarded as a science, a science that says "reason".

Hegel's greatest contribution to modern philosophy is the theory of the "kernel of reason", Hegel expounds the rationality of existence from the perspective of objective idealism (such as "God", ideas, "absolute spirit", laws, karma of beings, etc.), regards the objective spirit as the master and origin of the world, and believes that the material world that exists in reality is only the final stage of the "absolute spirit", and the demise of matter is the external manifestation of the return of the spiritual world to reason, and the absolute spirit is equivalent to objective existence, so " Everything that exists is realistic, and everything that is realistic is reasonable. Hegel's thinking has a profound impact on modern Westerners, through Hegel's theory of "rational core" you can use subjective consciousness to change objective reality, without blindly accepting the existence of reality with a complaining mentality, and will not passively accept reality like the Chinese, passively treat reality, and accept reality with the idea of reversing obedience.

For example, a cucumber grows to maturity and is brought to the market by melon farmers, all of which are in play by objective idealism, because planting melons requires the objective consciousness of melon farmers, and the purpose of planting cucumbers is to sell for money, which is the consequence of the objective reality of being governed by the objective will of melon farmers.

Hegel's theory of the "kernel of reason" is a product of subjective idealism (such as feeling, experience, mind, consciousness, concept, will, etc.). Hegel sublimated the ideological principles of subjective idealism, expanded the original nature of the subjective spirit to the inevitability of the disappearance of matter, that is, sublimated to the "absolute spirit", objectively attributed the internal uncertainty, defects, contradictions, and differences of things to the inevitability of the disappearance of things, and believed that since the material conditions exist, they have their superficial certainty, and there are also uncertainties, defects, contradictions, and differences in the material structure. Contradiction and difference, so the existence of matter has its rationality, before the material structure is changed, the elimination and transformation of it depends on the subjective consciousness to decide.

For example, a cucumber, before the cucumber has not deteriorated, whether you eat it raw, or fry it and eat it is something that your subjective consciousness decides, it's as simple as that, and this cucumber is "absolute spirit is equivalent to objective existence" from the moment it comes to you, and the result of you buying it is that you eat it, or rot it yourself, and finally realize the disappearance of matter.

Hegel's philosophy transcends the methodology of the three-view world, and unfolds the methodology of the philosophy of the four seasons of reincarnation, pushing philosophy to a new level and entering the interface of pure idealism.

The theory of three views only sees the process of the development of things, but cannot see the results of things, while the speculative philosophy of the cycle of the four seasons sees the whole process of things from generation to disappearance and then to rebirth. Don't underestimate Hegel's philosophical idea of adding the "absolute spirit" to the spiritual stage, because it is this "absolute spirit" that reincarnates the rebirth process of the development of things, pushes things to the stage after extinction, and sublimates the absolute process of the development of things from philosophical theories.

On the other hand, we can see the theoretical defects of traditional Chinese science, and the theoretical framework of traditional Chinese science is based on the principle of "studying the principles of heaven and understanding people". Putting natural science, existence, material conditions, and the physicality of the material basis in the first place of the method of argumentation, putting spirit, will, belief, experience, and consciousness after the laws of nature, placing subjective and objective consciousness under the laws of nature, and passively subordination to the ideological methods of "heaven and man-made", and not sublimating the ideological methods to the level of philosophical theories, in this way, the understanding of the knowledge structure of the world will inevitably lead to the psychological response of "going with the flow" and the ideological consequences of "going against the grain".

We should not deliberately avoid the phenomenon of digging the graves of philosophical schools, deliberately conceal the knowledge of some philosophical schools, and impose philosophical terms that have nothing to do with the grand purpose of certain philosophical systems, so as to push the originally very correct philosophical methods to the point of incomprehension. The intention of the gravediggers is very clear, that is, to transform the existing reality into the fact of the existence of their own theory, to expand their own method of thinking, and to give it the title of philosophy so that more people can accept it. However, it is often the gravedigger who cannot surpass the ideological height of the deceased, and can only modify the philosophical method of the deceased by coercive methods, and the result of this is that more people cannot understand the true meaning of philosophy, blindly subordinate to the truth of the gravedigger, and march in the wrong direction.

For the ideological theories that have lost their luster, we should not cling to them because of their former glory, and do not give up what they already have, that is, we put the existing ideas on the real time, and the actions have already been realized, resulting in the inability to follow up new understandings and the establishment of a new philosophical trend.

Hegel said: "The task of philosophy is to understand what exists, because what exists is reason, and as far as the individual is concerned, every man is the child of his time, and philosophy is the same, it is its time that is grasped in thought." "Philosophy should be a product of the times.

The logical thinking method of Hegel's philosophy eventually opened up eight ways of thinking for Westerners, that is, human beings usually have three ways of thinking when looking at problems, namely, subjective thinking, objective thinking, and dialectical thinking. The four sensory responses are abstract, figurative, logical, and emotional. Eight methods of thinking, namely, 1. Basic logical thinking methods, the causes and effects of abstraction and generalization, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction in the development of things. 2. The system thinking method, the thinking method of sequential programming within the system in the development of things. 3. The contradiction and complementarity of the development of things, and the mutual subtraction. Fourth, the development of things is static and dynamic, quantitative and qualitative, relative and absolute. Fifth, the structure of the development of things. 6. Judgment and screening, judgment, veto, and selection of the role of screening. 7. Logical editorial thinking. 8. Hypothetical method, elimination method, and counter-evidence method.

These eight thinking methods are the inevitable methods for human beings from observing things to finally deciding to deal with problems, and all these consciousnesses come from the conscious actions of human beings, that is, the causes of existence and disappearance caused by the influence of the external environment, and finally form the basic principles of Hegel's philosophy, that is, the idea of "entity is subject", and the absolute pure idealistic worldview of "absolute spirit is equivalent to objective existence".

The essence of the idea of "entity is subject" is that thinking and existence coexist, consciousness and matter coexist, "thinking is the essence of things, and things are the manifestations of thinking".

The thinking method of Hegel's philosophy can be seen in Mencius's thought, Mencius believed that "the people are precious, the society is secondary, and the monarch is light". "Everyone kisses their relatives, grows their lengths, and the world is peaceful." "Junren, Mo Buben, Jun Yi, Mo Injustice, Jun Zheng, Mo Bu Zheng. They all regard the objective spirit as the master and origin of the world, believe that the material world that exists in reality is only the final stage of the "absolute spirit", put the spirit at the front of things, and use the "absolute spirit" to understand the whole process of matter from its beginning to its disappearance.

Hegel's philosophy places the "Absolute Spirit" at the top of the process of material development, that is, it relegates philosophy to the realm of death and then life. Mencius said, "Life is what I want, and righteousness is what I want." You can't have both, and those who sacrifice their lives to take righteousness are also. That's what it means.

This truth is well understood by the Chinese, but it has not risen to the theoretical level, because Chinese science has not been sublimated to the interface of philosophy, and is still mixed with natural science and I Ching theory, resulting in traditional Chinese science unable to open the door of "love and wisdom" and sublimate human nature to a new interface of logical thinking. It's a pity for the wisdom of the Chinese.

As Chinese living in the environment of traditional Chinese culture, it should be said that they know the rational ideas of traditional Chinese culture, but when you carefully sort out traditional Chinese science, it is really difficult for you to find the method and understanding of dialectical thinking, only look at the defining dogmatic literature, no matter how profound and profound the ancient Chinese texts are, there are really few real metaphysical things, or even none.

When you have a systematic and comprehensive understanding of Chinese science, your final summary is still the pure materialist theory of "studying the principles of heaven and understanding people" in Chinese science, and the theory of pure materialism that science comes first and man comes last.

But the fact is that no matter how you understand philosophy, philosophy should be a study that is above material conditions and ideology, and the highest purpose of philosophy is to be human-oriented, and all goals are "rational harmony" guaranteed by the existence of "man".

Hegel said: "The supreme aim of philosophy is to affirm the unity of thought and experience, and to achieve the reconciliation of conscious reason with reason existing in things, that is, to achieve the reconciliation of reason and reality." "No matter how you understand philosophy, the highest state is to return to the idealistic world of reason. The material basis of the Absolute Spirit disappears into the universe and reincarnates the entire course of the development of things. It does not objectively exist in the materialist world, drifting in the cosmic space.

Spirit, as a rational being, returns to the cosmic space and originates from a completely new concept. This is also equivalent to the core worldview of Chinese Taoism, but Taoist thought is very messy and does not have a complete way of thinking, so that when later generations climb up this ladder, each finds its own way, each climbs its own ladder, and produces countless fallacies and heresies.

From here, we can also understand that traditional Chinese science is a mortal science, immortality is not enough for posterity, immortal "entities" cannot become "subjects", immortal "absolute spirit" cannot be equated with "objective existence", can not obscure the idea of "studying heavenly principles", and cannot sublimate "Ming Renlun" to "absolute spirit".

What is the original meaning of philosophy? The original intention of philosophy is to understand the root nature of human thought, summarize the material structure, summarize the regularity in the process of the development of things, analyze the lessons and lessons around the origin of human nature, memorize experience and methods, accumulate high-quality experience and methods, and serve the existence of reality.

The highest purpose of philosophy is to sublimate the fragments of human experience and memory to the realm of unity of thought and experience through metaphysical means, and to end the process of thought and experience in a logical way, so as to achieve the reincarnation and repetition process of continuous accumulation, summarization, utilization, innovation, extinction, re-accumulation, re-summarization, re-use, re-innovation, and re-extinction.

No matter what method you use to create a new philosophical system, there is always one thing you cannot detach from, that is, you cannot go beyond the interface of "man", everything must revolve around the existence of "man" as the source, and achieve the unity of reason and reality. If there is no one, there is nothing, and what about philosophy?

Whether you look at the world with Western philosophy or traditional Chinese science, there is always one thing you can't get rid of, that is, you see the world with two eyes, what you see must be the yin and yang world, you see the king of the world, surrender to the earth, you see men and women, two people as a family, no matter how much you are not worthy of the "rationality" of traditional Chinese science, when you use the three views of concept, nature and logic to analyze the relationship between the existence and death of things, "rational" You can't change the dominant position no matter what, and you can only argue for the "reconciliation of reason and reality" through conceptual transformation, which is the tragedy of Chinese science.

How to bring traditional Chinese science back to life?

The reality is that realists stand in the perspective of the difference between subjective and objective, and strive to maintain the authoritative acceptance of preparatory knowledge, while adopting an exclusive attitude towards uncertain, defective, contradictory, and different knowledge, denying or not accepting the internal factors of things, and not looking at problems from the opposite or inside, but it is often the internal uncertainty, defects, contradictions, and differences that cause things to change, and these are the reasons for the emergence and death of things.

The correct existence of reality is carried out in practical application by means of coercion and distortion, but it is impossible to take root in the correct philosophical spirit. Westerners do not understand the core of traditional Chinese science, and Chinese are unwilling to revise the knowledge structure of traditional Chinese science, so they can only go with the flow of existence and disappearance.

In fact, some of the theoretical frameworks of Hegel's philosophy are the core values of traditional Chinese science, but because ancient Chinese science cannot get rid of the natural logic of thinking conceptually, cannot form a new concept, and cannot raise science to the interface of objective idealism, it can only linger at the level of subjective materialism, but cannot make progress.

Philosophy is divided into four stages, namely the naturalistic stage, the subjective and objective (conscious) stage, the logical thinking stage, and finally the absolute spiritual stage. If you can't get rid of the natural stage, you can only live in the space of dualism, and you can't sublimate into the realm of subjective and objective cognitive structures, let alone understand the truth or falsity of logical thinking, and you can never reach the world of "absolute spirit", that is, the world of returning to reason. It is impossible to reach a consensus of thought and experience, and complete the whole process of things from occurrence to non-existence.

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