Chapter 42: Philosophy, Poetry, and Love (2)

Cheng Xiaoyu was stunned at first, and then remembered the philosophical conversation with Su Yuxi, and he forgot that the powerful Su Yuxi was a philosophical girl.

If we say what is the biggest enemy of poetry? Of course, it is not the political zhì, which is above the poetry. Essentially, philosophy is poetry's worst enemy. (Stanley Reeson points out: "In Book 10 of the Republic, Socrates refers to the long-standing controversy between philosophy and poetry. "From a political point of view, philosophy and poetry are both part of the tools of the city-state, and they are not higher than poetry. "What makes philosophy superior to poetry is that it can use intelligence to explain what is understood. However, poetry does outperform philosophy in ordinary poetic intelligence. Stanley Rosen, translated by Zhang Hui, The Controversy between Poetry and Philosophy. Of course, we will not discuss the debate between poetry and philosophy here, it is really an extremely complicated matter. )

Therefore, when Cheng Xiaoyu, the most outstanding poet of the school, took poetry to answer the question of Su Yuxi, the most popular philosopher in the school, there was no doubt that Chef Yu Huaxia pointed to Chinese cuisine and replied to the French chef, what is the best dish in the world.

What's even more terrifying is the philosopher's concept of love, which is a history of blood and tears.

Cheng Xiaoyu remembers that when she was in college, a teacher once told such a story: she had a senior sister who was a philosophy professor at a certain university, who was very beautiful, had a car and a house, and had a relatively good family background, but she did not get married. Many people feel sorry for her, but she never takes it seriously. The teacher said that people who really engage in philosophy are a bit "crazy", which is obviously different from ordinary people. There is a fellow who is a philosophy professor at a certain university, and he is very famous, and he is one of the figures in today's academic circles. He died a few years ago, lived to be seventy-four years old, and never married.

We are also familiar with Schopenhauer, Kant, etc., who are also lonely and old. This kind of phenomenon is understandable in Cheng Xiaoyu's opinion, and it has long been strange. Is it an individual phenomenon or a common phenomenon for philosophers to live their lives without marriage and old age? Do philosophers have love? In Cheng Xiaoyu's view, this is indeed a question worth exploring, and can even be used as a proposition for a thesis.

Socrates, the great master of philosophy, found a "shrew" to be his wife, in his own words, in order to exercise and test his ability to endure and be extremely tolerant. The history books record that Socrates was 'very ugly in birth and beautiful in death', and there is no further description of what he looked like, so it seems that he may have looked more abstract. For his love and marriage, he also hastily brought it. He himself did not do what he said, and it was all up to his two disciples to make him famous through the ages. Why did he choose a "shrew" as his wife? Is it really as he says to test himself, or is it just an excuse?

Socrates could only find a shrew because he was born too ugly, so Kant was completely different. Kant is said to be relatively handsome, and an article in the German newspaper "Die Welt" introduced that the eyes of young ladies in Koenigsberg have always been chasing Kant who is elegantly dressed and humorous, but Kant always keeps a certain distance from women. It is said that Kant had a crush on the middle-aged widowed Countess Kessellinck, and this dignified and beautiful aristocratic lady also had a love for Kant. However, due to the hierarchical system, the two never came together, and after the countess remarried another nobleman, Kant never had contact with any women again. This can't help but remind people of the story of Jin Yuelin and Lin Weiying. Kant was a legendary giant in the field of philosophy and thought, but there was nothing legendary in his life and love, as Heine said that he had "neither life nor experience".

The philosopher's love for wisdom is unimaginable to ordinary people, and this love is superior to all those he loves, and can even be "martyred" for knowledge and wisdom. In the prefaces of many philosophical masterpieces, you will find sentences such as, 'He applied his victorious energies to such and such a field,' and 'He devoted his life to such and such a discipline'. This is not politeness, much less a compliment, at least in the philosophical world, where there are many such "martyrs".

The history of philosophy is a history of war, and the philosophical world is always a battlefield of fighting, and later generations always step on the accumulated bones of their predecessors: theoretical systems and doctrines have been overturned again and again and again and have been established again and again, and there is no end. Every philosopher is a warrior and a martyr. They built their own doctrine system on the basis of overthrowing other people's doctrines, and a vicious battle was inevitable, and the doctrine system he established was inevitably attacked by others, and sooner or later they were always going to fall, so they became martyrs.

Looking at Su Yuxi's extremely serious face, Cheng Xiaoyu knew that the most terrible secondary school patient in this school was none other than his sister, who was not cute at all.

CHENG XIAOYU PUSHED THE GLASSES ON THE BRIDGE OF HIS NOSE, HE HAD CHANGED INTO A GOOD-LOOKING PRADA BLACK SQUARE-FRAMED GLASSES, BUT THE ONES ON HIS FAT FACE DID NOT ADD ANY BOOKISH AIR. Maybe if someone else questioned Cheng Xiaoyu like this, he would laugh it off. But in the face of this tsundere sister, he didn't want to admit defeat.

Cheng Xiaoyu thought for a moment and said, "Do you mean to tell me to use rational philosophy to think about sensual love? As Nietzsche said, women are "what a dangerous, sneaky, sneaky little carnivore." Love is based on "the uncommon hatred between the sexes" and "the poverty of a pair of souls", and marriage is "the end of brief madness and the replacement of long folly". See, as a philosopher, I have to be free from my profession, my woman, my children, my country, my faith? For those great philosophers, love is the best eugenics. Because love is a trick of nature, marriage is the elimination of love, and it will inevitably lead to disillusionment. Only philosophers can attain marital happiness, but philosophers never marry. At the end, Cheng Xiaoyu also showed Su Yuxi an expression like "Look, this is a cold joke!"

Su Yuxi ignored Cheng Xiaoyu's self-righteous humor at all, and said coldly, "The essence of love is not to love each other, but to possess each other." Sex is the animal instinct of man, and later through the wrapping of guò culture, there is a shell of love, and then the institutionalization of society, there is marriage. So, please don't describe love so beautifully, so great, so can be met but not sought, love is**, the general sex in consciousness # desire expression xiàn, if it is not aimed at a certain opposite sex, then he is just thinking about himself, leaving the phenomenon to see, it is just the survival of ** (sex # desire instinct). But if it is the consciousness of sexual #desire, towards a specific individual, it is the will to survive "from generation to generation". (The latter paragraph is Schopenhauer's point of view)"

Cheng Xiaoyu replied quickly, "I have never separated sex and love, at the end of "Three Treatises on Sexology", Freud divided human love into three levels, simply put, the first level is completely generated by sexual impulse to the opposite sex, the second type is based on sexual attraction, plus mutual spiritual appreciation and love between the opposite sex one-to-one correspondence emotion, the third type is completely detached from **, Plato's spiritual love thoughts and emotions. Of course, Freud advocated the second type, which is based on the premise of sexual attraction, coupled with the spiritual world to communicate and appreciate each other, and to want to live together for a long time. And modern values make us despise the first, yearn for the second, and praise the third. Maybe a beautiful and splendid relationship can't last forever, but that's not a reason for you to deny that it exists. No matter what the origin of love, love is illogical, vague, and sometimes even unreasonable. Isn't it too naïve for you to explain it with a philosophy that is logical, clear, and hypothetical? Besides, you say I've never been in love, so you've been in love?

Regarding Cheng Xiaoyu's ridicule, Su Yuxi sneered at each other: "I don't have time to experience that primitive animal instinct, that's your man's hobby." The main purpose of your love is not the exchange of love, but the pleasure of possession. Therefore, even if there is pure love, if it lacks sensual pleasures, the former cannot make up for it or comfort it. On the contrary, a person who has a strong love for a person of the opposite sex, if he does not get the exchange of love, can also be willing to possess the pleasure of **. This can be proved by all pre-marriages, or by love bought by money or material, or even by forced relationship. In the consciousness of the person involved in love, even if there is no such thing as "producing specific children", in fact, it is the real purpose of all love, and the way to achieve this goal is just a foil. And those who love from the beginning are nothing more than habits, they are used to the morals that this society has instilled in them, they are used to carrying the responsibilities that this society imposes on them, they just follow the rules and not because of love. ”

"You're talking about your parents. Cheng Xiaoyu was silent for a moment, and then said softly, "Do you think that you are not the crystallization of love, but the punishment of sex." ”

Su Yuxi's face was a little pale, and the stubbornness in his eyes was pitiful. Clever philosophers tend to be on the tip of the bull's horns, and they are paranoid about self-discipline in the spirit of saints. However, when they understand the world on their own spiritual level, they will find that the world is full of sin.

Su Yuxi's fingertips twisted the edge of her skirt, clear meridians appeared on her white hands, she turned her head and said, "It seems that love is not a philosophical proposition with exploration value." Then he turned and walked away.

Cheng Xiaoyu looked at the lonely back and felt a little distressed for some reason, he didn't know what had happened to the family he was in on the surface. For Su Yuxi, whose IQ has completely crushed ordinary people, there is no way to consol him. As a traverser, he also has a deep sense of loneliness similar to Su Yuxi. Su Yuxi's loneliness is that everyone is drunk and I am sober, and he is a thousand-mile horse but is kept in captivity.

Seeing Su Yuxi gradually walking away, Cheng Xiaoyu shouted loudly, "The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to find light." That's what philosophy is all about!"

Hearing Cheng Xiaoyu's words, Su Yuxi paused slightly, but did not look back.

The winter sun is like a transparent and cold ice edge, piercing into the endless mist, slowly absorbing its body. Cheng Xiaoyu looked at the beautiful back, the rippling ponytail disappeared at the edge of the horizon, and then tore off the article "The Farthest Distance in the World" and walked in another direction.

The farthest distance in the world is when a philosopher and a poet stand together, but they are discussing love.