Chapter 105: Communication
The general history of the world in Southern Zhou does not deny the superiority of the traditional schools, but their anachronism has become more and more prominent.
Fevre attacked them and used the mature theories of the Annals school to prove the errors of the traditional school, which was a complete overturn of their academic thinking, which can be called a life-and-death battle.
But Zhou Nan has to say that Favre is still a little too sharp and too urgent.
Subversion does not necessarily mean denial, your current method is indeed advanced, but you can't be unforgiving, completely negating the achievements of others.
Of course, Zhou Nan didn't know the inside story, and I am afraid that it was because Fevre was forced to be in a hurry that he completely denied them.
But this practice is actually very dangerous, because if you completely deny others today, they will be able to completely deny you tomorrow.
Otherwise, the future school of annals would not have been divided.
Zhou Nan did not want to get involved in their struggle, and his academic ideas were actually relatively moderate centrists.
In the general history of the world, the historical research methods of Zhou Nan do not negate anyone, and concentrate the methods of various schools of thought, and integrate all the methods together.
For example, the political science of the Ranke school, the later mature econometrics, demography, and social psychology of the Annals school.
There are only two ways that are original to Zhou Nan, one is to ignore the unified historical narrative of countries and regions, and this method has been compared with philosophy before, but it is not mature, and Zhou Nan has established a complete theory and method of it.
This method is much more convenient than traditional historiography when studying the history since the Industrial Revolution, so the general history of the world in southern Zhou can become famous in the academic circles in one fell swoop.
The second is the internal deconstruction of historiography, which does not simply deconstruct history from human beings, but shifts the direction to other species.
To take a very simple example, corn and potatoes, the development and spread of these crops have had a huge impact on the world.
These effects are something that people have been ignoring and not noticing. But can you say that it doesn't matter?
Wheat, corn, potatoes, peppers, the spread of these species has been changing the world in obscurity. However, this direction of historical research has not been taken seriously in the past.
Zhou Nan has completely summarized these in the general history of the world and formed a school. In the future, he will write another book at the right time to fully promote this method.
Although this school of thought is unlikely to become the mainstream or even the main body of historical research like the political school, Zhou Nan is also the originator!
Moreover, because this school of thought is biased, it will not affect the status of other schools, so it will be easier for everyone to accept.
After some debate, Hudson finally had to shut up. Because intellectually he has already admitted the limitations and backwardness of the traditional school in the study of history.
Theodore Toynbee was the most excited, and he sat behind the crowd all the time, writing hard to record the debate between Zhou Nan and Hudson.
The dinner was very sumptuous and there was a long table that could accommodate 30 people, and everyone sat opposite each other.
To the left of Zhou Nan sat Audrey, and next to Audrey sat Schweizer. To his right sat Veronica, and then past Toynbee.
Sitting across from him were Hudson and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Henderson, Henderson did not have much opportunity to chat with Zhou Nan during the period before the meal, and during the meal, he was still discussing various theories of humanitarianism with Zhou Nan.
Zhou Nan was actually very interested in Wittgenstein, but he was not enthusiastic and active in social aspects, and when he was eating, he sat alone at the end.
During the whole dinner, several people took turns to talk to Zhou Nan, and he didn't have much time to eat at all. Until the end of the dinner, Zhou Nan was only half full.
Audrey's performance is also very good, and her performance has always been calm and elegant. She was the youngest, everyone took extra care of her, and she got along well with Veronica, and the two of them had already made an appointment.
When she goes to promote Coty's perfume, Veronica will also bring a group of women to the show. In the winter, Veronica will go on vacation to Switzerland with Toynbee, and will also stay at Zhou Nan's house.
She was able to get along well with other women, and Zhou Nan was also relieved, and after dinner, she continued to communicate with the people present.
Henderson was a social activist and an idealist. He, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, did not discuss the idea with Zhou Nan, but just wanted to listen to Zhou Nan's scholarship.
Russell was a thinker, but not a bitter thinker, but a Don Quixote who liked to challenge the bad habits of the world.
He was married four times, enjoyed extramarital affairs, advocated anti-war, and went to prison and bankruptcy several times for it.
But no one can deny his academic achievements, he had countless fans during his lifetime, and after his death, countries around the world praised him to the altar.
In the UK, there are countless streets and squares that bear his name.
Schweitzer, on the other hand, was a true idealist, one might even say a saint.
He was versatile, he studied art and had a very high level of art, but in the end he devoted all his energy to philanthropy.
From his first trip to Africa in 13 years, he has formed an indissoluble bond with it. In 15 years, he gave a lecture in France and for the first time put forward the academic concept of "Reverence for Life", which belonged entirely to him.
Reverence for all life is the cornerstone of Schweizer's bioethics. Schweizer extended the scope of ethics to all animals and plants, believing that not only human life, but also all living and animal life must be revered.
Good is to maintain life, promote life, and make developable life realize its highest value, while evil is to destroy life, harm life, and suppress the development of life. This is an inevitable, universal, and absolute ethical principle.
During these decades, he has been doing philanthropy in Africa, in addition to returning to Europe to raise funds and give lectures. Regardless of the country, he has a very good reputation and is known as the number one volunteer in the world.
And he did not just do it for a while, but did it all his life, until he died at the age of ninety, all in the hospital he established in Africa.
The exchange after the meal was mainly twofold, one was to discuss the meaning of charity, the theory of humanitarianism, and how to expand the propaganda of humanitarianism with Schweitzer.
Schweitzer strongly agreed with Zhou Nan's establishment of a foundation to promote humanitarianism with the Red Cross, and accepted Zhou Nan's invitation to attend the award ceremony of the first Jonas Week Humanitarian Award on July 1 next year.
At that time, he and Henderson will fully cooperate with Zhou Nan's foundation, including the Red Cross, after making a plan.
Hudson said goodbye with some disappointment when the topic came to an end. Zhou Nan used a mild attitude, but an impeccable academic theory, to defeat the academic theory that he was proud of all his life.
Although he can accept defeat, he is also extremely disappointed.
However, Russell and Moore, including Wittgenstein, still had no intention of leaving at this time, and Russell even directly asked to have an all-night chat with Zhou Nan to discuss nuclear weapons.
Zhou Nan knew that Russell was also a great social activist, and for the last decades of his life, he had been engaged in anti-war propaganda.
Before Einstein died, the last letter he sent was to Russell, which is known as the Russell-Einstein Declaration.
Although Zhou Nan studied many of Russell's works, most of the philosophical parts were not thoroughly studied. On the contrary, the academic theory that Russell turned to the study of social organization and ideology in the second half of his life is relatively familiar.
In the second half of Russell's life, his main energy was to promote peace and oppose war.
It was Etinny, who came back later, because he had not participated in the discussion and served everyone, and he could see more clearly that a group of women felt a little bored.
He then proposed that the discussion be held in the villa where Zhou Nan and the others were staying, and he could be responsible for sending the ladies home.
This proposal was unanimously approved, so everyone decided to move to the villa where Zhou Nan stayed and continued to chat.
Zhou Nan's Kensington Palace Garden Street, where Zhou Nan stayed in the British royal family, has been published in the evening newspaper. The crowd also joked that they were going to communism.
Of course, none of their families wanted Etinny to see them off, they all had their own cars and their own assistants.
Only Wittgenstein didn't own a car, but he was a weirdo, not only an unmarried ascetic, but also unwilling to buy a permanent property.
Before him, Zhou Nan never thought that he could see the innocence of a child in the eyes of an old man.
He is 57 years old this year, and because of his poor health, he has been living an ascetic-like life, simply pursuing the exploration and discovery of the spiritual world.
He was like a magnet, and although he had been there like a mountain, everyone couldn't help but be attracted to him.
It's a pity that he may be a very slow person because the spiritual world is too rich, which has caused a certain degree of communication barrier.
Although Zhou Nan deliberately mentioned two things to him, he was unable to follow. However, he was obviously also full of curiosity about Zhou Nan, and had been quietly listening to Zhou Nan's communication with the others.
The convoy came to the villa where Zhou Nan was staying, and everyone was shocked by Zhou Nan's "wealth". Although they knew that Zhou Nan had made a lot of money by publishing the General History of the World, this kind of enjoyment was not something that a scholar could enjoy.
There is no scholar who travels with a team of more than 20 assistants behind him, but they can understand it when they know that most of the expenses are borne by the wealthy Nord.
In the small living room on the first floor, everyone either found a comfortable place to sit or solve physiological problems. Let Nord arrange for a variety of drinks and snacks, as well as a box full of cigars, as if he was really ready to let them talk all night.
Zhou Nan took the opportunity to lie flat for a while, closed his eyes and recuperated for five minutes before he felt much more comfortable.
When he got up, he found Wittgenstein sitting directly on the floor, leaning against the sofa with his long legs outstretched, and a glass of red wine in his hand, not knowing what he was thinking.
Zhou Nan followed him, slipped off the sofa, leaned on his right body, sat on the floor, and his right arm was still hanging on the sofa.
"Ludwig, I am very interested in the mutual transformation and relationship between your philosophy of logic, empiricism, and positivism, but some knowledge is too profound for me, I wonder if you would like to communicate with me?"
(It's a new week.,I feel like the old demon is okay.,I hope all kinds of votes are cast for the old demon)