Chapter 44 The Gap Between Eastern Confucianism and Western Philosophy

I advanced the chapter of the Sutra to chapter 44 and did not come to the best conclusion of the argument of the Sutra. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Human civilization began with the diffusion, reproduction, and inheritance of intellectual wealth. We spend our whole life to explore the mineral resources of a certain wisdom wealth, and look for rich experience in obtaining wealth, overcome all kinds of difficulties, find defects, make up for defects, find mistakes, correct mistakes, just to obtain high-quality, high-yield mineral deposits. This is how the cultural industry of mankind has developed, and both Western and Eastern civilizations are striving to explore for a goal, only to find the most suitable theoretical ideas for the development of human civilization, so as to guide people to march towards a more civilized society.

Now that we continue to explore the gap between Eastern Confucianism and Western philosophy, we must start with reason and human nature in order to reach a perfect conclusion.

The reason why we have a deep memory of the concept of rationality is that rationality is what we see intuitively with our eyes, which leaves us with a real impression, and the guest impression of the imaginary space in the human mind is very vague and not easy for people to remember. However, people have a tendency to yearn for this kind of objective impression of the imaginary space in their minds, that is to say, the material that exists in reality is easy for people to remember immediately, while the thoughts that exist in the soul are the yearning for the future world.

For example, people usually focus on the direct impact of power and do not care about the indirect effects of the use of power. The direct influence is precisely the subject of Confucianism, while the indirect influence is the subject explored by the philosophical system. That's the difference between the two.

The word philosophy is very new to Chinese, and it has a history of more than 100 years, imported from Japanese Chinese. However, it means that Chinese Chinese philosophy is wisdom, and it has the meaning of philosophy and wisdom.

The original intention of philosophy is to start from human nature and explore the reason why people are human beings, so the proposition of philosophy is very narrow and limited to human nature. So you will see that the entrance to philosophy is very narrow, but when you enter the world, philosophy involves a wide range of human knowledge, including political science, economics, law, Psychology and other disciplines, but its purpose is only one, that is, to understand the human self, to understand human beings, to find the strongest intentions of human beings, to explore the weakest will of human beings, to find the most suitable for human application of the ideological method, in order to transform human beings, develop civilization, create the most suitable external material environment for human survival, build the most suitable spiritual home for human beings, for the benefit of human beings, for the well-being of human beings.

I am a human being, I came to this world based on the laws of nature, and I was able to become a human being at a chance time, the inevitable result of happening.

Where am I from? I am from the vastness of the universe.

I came into this world, and I put my soul in the gods who ruled my destiny.

Since I have become being, existence is reasonable.

I come from the vastness of the universe, with my soul and spirit, borrowing human bodies and experiencing human journeys.

I came to this world with enough reason and intuition, through intuitive understanding, and under the prompting of the wise people around me, I found my original cognition.

I know why I am a human being, I know that my cognition is insufficient, there are defects, I use a humble heart, and a fresh and empty heart, to find the essence of goodness, and go through the whole process of being a human being.

I finally put my will and soul in God, follow the philosophy of justice, practice the original intention of goodness, and complete my life journey perfectly without affecting the will of others on the premise of not surpassing myself.

I will eventually die, my soul out of my body, and return to the vastness of the sky, but my soul will not die, and I am waiting for the next space voyage, to the next natural interstellar.

That's the philosophy of who I am, where I came from, and where I'm going.

The philosophical proposition is very narrow, but to go through the whole life process of this proposition, it is a macroscopic proposition, so grand that it is magnificent.

Looking back at human civilization, there are not many people who can initiate a method of thought, and among the nine methods of thought, Confucius is the most representative of the sage who can represent the method of thinking of "starting from one and combining in two". At the interface of the idea of "divided into three", Socrates was the greatest sage. Hegel's thought is the most representative in the ideological stage of "standing in four", and after the ideological development of "ending in five", there are no thinkers who can be represented. Schopenhauer's thought, on the other hand, has taken on the pessimism, but it is not comprehensive.

Confucius's thought represents the highest intention of rational thinking, no one in the world can surpass Confucius in the interface of rational thinking, in the human beings to see the world with two eyes, and record the experience of the person is only Confucius, whether it is the East or the West, with a thought to guide a people through more than 2,000 years of constant people, only Confucius in the world has done it.

But the limitations of reason also bring endless suffering to the Chinese, so criticizing reason and discarding the fallacy of reason is the right choice. Because human beings are developing, human beings criticize rationality and abandon rational outdated thinking methods for the pursuit of their own civilization, and establish a new way of thinking is an inevitable choice, but rational thinking is not a cancer of all evils, rational thinking, as the most primitive understanding of human beings, records what they see with both eyes, summarizes it into experience and dogma, and passes it down from generation to generation, so as to play a leading role in human beings to correctly understand the world and understand the truth.

Therefore, rational thinking cannot be completely denied and stepped on 10,000 feet.

However, human beings still need to correctly recognize the one-sidedness and fallacy of rational thinking. The stubbornness of reason comes with the blood of human beings, so it is harder to clear reason than to change it.

The reason why human beings cannot stick to the line of defense of reason is precisely because the dogma of reason has encroached on the spiritual home of human beings, making it impossible for the originally empty soul to take root.

In order to find a home for the soul, Socrates bravely abandoned natural science, gave up the rationality seen with both eyes, and walked into the depths of the soul touched by the bitterness and bitterness of feelings, showing the idealistic world to mankind, and lighting an inextinguishable lamp for human civilization. He himself bravely faced the death penalty in order to practice the truth, leaving the mirror of evil and justice to posterity, which Confucius did not have.

This is the greatness of Socrates.

For thousands of years, countless people have questioned the existence of soul and spirit, but in the end they have to give their soul and spirit to God.

Life is so simple and meaningless, the will comes with the soul, goes through a lot of tribulations, and does not find the ultimate goal.

When a person is born from the mother's body, the first thing he sees is not the world, but desire, which guides the will in a definite direction, that is, from satisfying himself.

From then on, under the preaching of parents, the naïve will was given direction, education and religion spread the essence of good and evil, and transmitted the knowledge of right and wrong to the will, and finally the will became a tool, which was used and pulled in a certain direction by politics.

However, what is the intention of politics? What is the will of the state? Who is designing the political intention and who is manipulating the will of the state.

When the will grows into an adult, the will cannot find sustenance, and the beginning of adulthood is the most confused period of will. How to guide the will of the first bloom in the right direction is the brilliance of Western philosophy, and this is exactly what Chinese science does not have.

Why should philosophy shoulder the responsibility of showing the way for people, because the starting point of philosophy is correct, while the starting point of Confucianism is false.

Confucianism is also shouldering the responsibility of guiding people, but Confucianism only guides the direction for the power class, and the people are led to a desperate dead end by Confucianism, the will of the king controls the will of the people, and the people can only suffer under slavery, and the soft water of Confucianism does not circulate, and sooner or later it will be rancid. Noble morality hangs high on the top of the mountain, and eventually it will rot and be blown away by the wind.

As long as there are people, human knowledge is a topic that can never be explored, and the study of human nature will always be a necessary topic for politics, economy, and culture, unless human beings no longer exist.

Therefore, true philosophy is not the study of logical reasoning, but the exploration of the question of the existence of a healthier and happier human being. From the political, people's livelihood and spiritual aspects, we should explore the most suitable political system for human beings to follow, the legal system most suitable for human beings to abide by, and the most suitable system for human beings to accept, so as to benefit mankind and seek well-being for mankind.

This is the original intention of philosophy.

We don't need to expound the stubbornness and fallacy of reason in grand expositions, nor do we need to go to great lengths to show off the profundity and abstraction of human nature. We only need to explain it in a simple way to understand why rational thinking needs to be critical, and human thinking needs to be promoted.

We know that there is a difference between feeling and feeling, feeling comes from seeing with both eyes, and feeling comes from touching the heart. Perception transmits what it sees to the brain, gets intuitive judgments, and analyzes it to judge whether what you see is reasonable and whether it can satisfy your desires. What humans see at first has no obvious purpose, but only sees it and reflects it back to the brain, forming an image in the mind.

The beginning of the gaze does not make much sense, the purpose of the person who opens his eyes is only to wake up, and the eyes need to see the light. At this time, the gaze transmits to the brain only the natural world, just feelings, and no feelings appear, but when the human brain puts aside the senses and enters the feelings, the command to determine the direction of the gaze begins to be issued from the brain, and the brain begins to decide whether to give up or continue to pay attention to the direction of the gaze at a certain moment, and the decision-making factor that determines the direction of the gaze is the most primitive desire of human beings.

Desire is the second contact with sensory cognition, desire determines whether what is intuitively observed conforms to the criteria of psychological logic, and psychological desire determines the direction of gaze, as well as the time and length of stay. Desire is the primordial motive force that stands on the perceptual consciousness and enters the perceptual consciousness. Generally speaking, human civilization starts with desire, so human beings cannot regard desire as a cow, ghost, snake and god, wantonly trampling and destroying, criticizing and tabooing the nature of desire.

That is to say, if human beings do not have the natural primitive desires, human beings will not be able to elevate their primitive rationality to the human nature of civilization, get rid of the ignorance of beasts, and establish and improve the intelligent civilization and loving world of human society.

From this point of view, you will see that the blind do not need rational judgment from beginning to end, the blind are not without sensibility, the sensibility of the blind also comes from desire, desire is the same as the blind person in the blind heart, the blind person's desire promotes the thinking to the objective idealistic imagination space, so the blind person gets the judgment standard from the objective desire, and the desire guides the blind person's thinking into the feeling space to determine the direction of the will.

In the mind of the blind, white may be dark, and the blue sky is also the same dark world, but the feeling space of the blind is not narrower than that of the clear-eyed person, but it is more able to appreciate the bitterness and sweetness of the spiritual world.

Feeling is guided by desire to control the brain to produce memories of what you see, and under the drive of desire, strengthen and weaken sensory memory, in the world of memory to logically analyze the existing value orientation, feel the bitterness and sweetness of the world, that is to say, human feelings are a specific model, only people have this specific feeling mode, only human nature is unique, which is exactly what other animals do not have.

Perception comes from intuitive observation, after the desire is filtered to decide whether to strengthen the memory, or weaken the memory, and the decision of all this is in addition to desire and desire, therefore, desire is the original only standard of rational thinking, but also the only springboard of human thinking, that is to say, the brain only triggers desire, will produce feelings, guide the gaze to wander forward and backward left and right to watch, and decide whether to leave traces of memory.

We know that babies do not show consciousness the moment they open their eyes, and the only conscious yearning is to find the source of milk. That is to say, the first rational sense of man is only the desire to milk.

Therefore, desire is the original and only standard of rational thinking, rational thinking arises from desire, and desire is the springboard of human thinking. From here, you can understand the reasons for the defects of rationality, intuitiveness, simplicity, extensiveness, short-sightedness, aimlessness, quick success, disobedience to the rules of the game, contempt for the law, crossing the red line, plagiarism and so on. You can also understand why rational thinking bureaucrats are corrupt officials.

The same is true for ordinary people, as long as you have rational thinking, you are a profit-only person with material interests as the highest standard, and the truth is as simple as that.

This is why the fallacy of the rational sense must be criticized and rejected.

However, the idealistic thinking of human nature touched by feeling is a specific personnel standard that only human beings have obtained through logical thinking and comparison and judgment based on memory codes, which is also called the concept of human nature.

The key point of human thinking is the word "human". The production of the concept of human nature can be traced back to the beginning of human civilization. As early as 2,000 years ago, the Greeks explored the thought process of human nature through the law of trigonometry, trying to prove that the human mind is transmitted to the brain through a third party in the form of triangular cubes.

Traditional Chinese medicine also proved 2,000 years ago that the spleen qi system is the human organ that transmits the will, but because the Chinese do not believe in the existence of the soul and spirit, the theory of Chinese medicine is not officially recognized in ancient times, so that this theory is limited to medical application and cannot rise to the level of ideological theory.

Going back to the process of feeling the human thought process, we will continue to explore why it is necessary for man to accept the conceptual way of thinking idealism, and to prove with facts the necessity of human civilization to elevate human civilization above all sensual thinking.

We know that the desire to eat motivates us to work diligently for the satisfaction of food, and that the desire to get enough food is due to the rational sensory thinking that arises from the instinct of human beings as animals, and this process is the primitive rational desire of animals. From this, we can understand that the desire to eat well comes from the rational thinking of animal instinct, but eating well is no longer the rational thinking of animal instinct.

Since the formation of human beings in society and the emergence of civilization, human beings have become higher animals of one level higher than animals, and have jumped out of the rational interface of animals to become higher animals of thinking civilization, so the process of sensory thinking has been thrown aside and put aside, and the process of human thinking has been felt, and the process of feeling the human nature has felt the bitter, sweet, and bitter sensory thinking process, so as long as people enter the objective idealistic world of guests, people's thoughts are complex and chaotic, complex and cumbersome. Those who are sensitive and passionate, people will give up simple and coarse rationality, enter the civilized world of human nature, and feel the bitterness and bitterness of human nature.

Since then, human beings have produced writing, and then produced cultural products such as articles, operas, and poems, and cultural exchanges have begun. Human civilization began to spread, reproduce, and genetize. And all of this is due to the perceptual process of human beings who feel and think higher than animals, and the fine wisdom and wealth that are higher than animals, which is also the reason why people are human beings.

The reason why man is human is that the human spleen system is stronger than the spleen system of animals, and people have a sensory system that transcends themselves, while animals do not.

People can change food from raw to cooked, from light to salty, from one taste to more flavorful in order to eat well, and this process is the long march of human feelings. Man satisfies the human desire to eat well by transforming the primordial essence of the material base, which animals do not.

In order to satisfy various desires, human beings have evolved the rationality of the senses to the objective feelings of the human beings, and have completed the entire process of evolution from animals to humans.

Therefore, the thinking process of human beings should not stay at the primitive sensory level, but should establish thinking on the perceptual interface of feelings, and practice the truth that people are human beings.

Theoretically, it is profound and difficult to understand, in fact, we use popular language to say: if you become a human being, you must have human thinking, which includes the ideological system of all philosophers in the world, whether it is Western philosophers or Eastern physicists, no matter how broad and profound these people's thinking is, in fact, there is only one sentence, "You are human, you must have human thinking." ”

Otherwise, you're not human.

In order to prove the truth that man is human, both Western philosophers and Eastern theorists are flattening their heads to explore the reason why man is human.

This sentence is tongue-twisting, but it actually contains a profound philosophy of human nature.

We are human, we have human minds, what do we do every day?

We are human, we are the dragon and phoenix among people, we are in charge of the fate of others, what do we do every day?

We are human beings, we are ordinary people, we obey the command of others, what do we receive every day?

We are human beings, we are men, and in order to ensure the happiness of our families, do we stretch our hands to the infinite extremes, and take rational greed to the extreme. In order to ensure the warmth of home, is it to sublimate the desire for love to the level of human nature? What do we do every day?

We are human beings, we are women, do we stretch our hands to the infinite extremes in order to achieve the desire for glory and decency, do we exchange our specific conditions for rational satisfaction in order to satisfy the desire for material needs, what do we do every day?

This is the reason why people are human beings.

In fact, this truth is very simple, there is no noble reason, and there is no profound thinking of philosophers, but it is a very simple truth, that is, people become human beings and live in a certain place in the world, do we get what human nature should get?

That's the whole problem of being human.

We don't have to prove whether people have a spirit and a soul, and we don't have to go to great lengths to prove that a soul and spirit exist.

In fact, whether we have a soul and spirit does not depend on the theoretical value, but in the practical significance.

In the final analysis, we are the proposition of the soul and the body, we shoulder the responsibility of being a human being, we must have the emotional world of joy, anger, sorrow and sorrow, there is a human nature thinking that is higher than animal nature, we are not animals, and we do not need to use animal reason to educate us, we have a self, we ask loudly with a pale voice: the ruling class, you are also human beings, what have you given us?

We can have no soul and we can have no mind. But we have to say that we should have an ego, because we are human beings! Our desires are not high, and it is enough to satisfy a little rational desire and the human spirit, that is, as long as we have an ego, it is enough. To put it notably, it is enough for us to have democracy and people's livelihood.

This is the genius of philosophy, as long as there are people, philosophy will make the same voice, the reason why people are people, people must have the social value of democracy and people's livelihood.

As long as there are people, philosophy will not die, but science is a mortal science, because science is a dogma of rational sensibilities, which only exists in the material level of animal instinct, and cannot penetrate into the spiritual level of human nature.

Human beings can take sensory rationality to the extreme for the sake of food satisfaction, and see how brave and fearless hungry people are in order to satisfy rational desires, and they can understand the stubbornness of sensory rationality.

Reality is the golden key to the best interpretation of the theoretical framework.

We know that when we feel it, the heart will stir up waves, the blood will accelerate circulation, the blood of the heart will accelerate when it is transmitted to the brain, there is a feeling of upward rush, followed by the feeling of joy, anger and sorrow, this phenomenon can not be said to be a reaction of material conditions, but should be attributed to the perceptual reflection of specific human conditions, is the visual response of specific human conditions, which is the most powerful evidence of spiritual existence.

We can disagree with the existence of the soul, but the existence of the spirit is an indisputable fact. The basis for the existence of the spirit can also be corroborated by traditional Chinese medicine, human beings breathe air with their lungs, and after purifying the air they breathe, part of it enters the spleen system, and the spleen system converts the air into kinetic energy to control the kinetic energy of the heart, so as to supply blood to the whole body. So the spleen is the supplier of the heart, and the heart controls the blood supply to the brain. We know that when a person is grumpy, the brain is the moment when it is the most congested. People are excited, emotionally exploding, and highly nervous at this moment, which is the most powerful evidence of the existence of the spiritual level of human beings.

In fact, it is the gap between Eastern Confucianism and Western philosophy that recognizes and disagrees with the existence of the soul and spirit, indicating that the cultural level of Eastern Confucianism has not yet reached the height of Western philosophy.

If you do not agree with the existence of soul and spirit, it can only mean that you are still in a primitive rational state, in the sensory world of animal nature, and the ideology and culture cannot reach the sensory world of human objectivism, and you cannot theoretically prove the situational process of the objective idealistic thinking of human nature when it experiences joys, sorrows, and sorrows.

The reason why people become human beings is because they have self-knowledge, people have the ability to know themselves, and there is no hope for a nation that cannot see its own gaps.