Chapter 274 [Primordial Substance and 'Men's Disease'] The Third Update

"I still don't understand a little, Bai Fuzi said, the wind is rolling the flagpole in the wind, a soldier said that this is the wind blowing the flagpole is moving, this is materialism, and another soldier said that the flagpole is not moving, it is the heart moving, this is idealism? Such a strange soldier is from the old Qin State, and the soldier in front is also okay, and the latter one is so subtle? ”

"Phew, where are you soldiers? This is clearly just the example given by the Master, and the key is to understand the truth. If you look at Mu Jing and Zhao Ji, they won't shout like you, and they are still thinking seriously after class, otherwise how can they say that they are excellent students? ”

This is a very epoch-making lesson, whether there is such a philosopher soldier or not is not the key at all, in the original case, it was the monk and not the soldier, the key is to look at the problem from an angle.

A wind blowing a flagpole makes people understand the difference between idealism and materialism and arouses a lot of thinking. If it were in later generations, there would definitely be people advocating idealism, but in this pre-Qin era when the development of philosophy was still in the window period, Bai Dong said that what is the standard answer is. Idealism is not necessarily bad, at least it can keep people optimistic and quiet enough, and even trigger a debate similar to Buddhism, but this is something that is played by extremely smart people, and it is basically a cheat to popularize the public.

The Buddhist researchers who appeared in later generations reconsidered and debated philosophy, representing the camp of idealists, this will definitely appear, and Bai Dong will not be too worried; However, those believers who used gods and Buddhas to deceive incense and educate good men and women to abide by the rules and keep the precepts, but they themselves became big landlords in the name of a monk, and the early propagation of correct philosophical concepts would help the Chinese people strengthen their immunity to these sects.

The debate between materialism and idealism has been around for a long time among the intelligent. But now after being hammered by Bai Dong. Even extremely smart students like Mu Jing and Zhao Ji don't put too much energy into this issue. What attracted them the most was the 'primordial substance' proposed by Bai Dong.

What is a 'primordial substance'? That is, the original composition of the world's substance, seems to be a very empty concept, but in fact it is the foundation of natural sciences and even humanities, before Bai Dong proposed the primordial matter, no one knew what the world was formed of, even scholars like Lao Yanjian and Meng Ke, could not explain the origin of human beings, the legend of Nuwa creating people was very marketable in this era. Why else would Zhou Tianzi have to sacrifice to the gods of heaven and earth?

The pre-Qin era was not the Dark Middle Ages, and the monarchy was higher than the divine power in the history of China, and the monarchs of the countries were also half-convinced when they sacrificed to the heavens, so Bai Dong proposed that everything in this world was formed by 'fire, water, earth, wind' and 'vitality'. In the eyes of later generations, this is just a simple materialist view, but in this era it has epoch-making significance, when Lao Yanjian and Meng Ke were slightly changed, bowing their heads and thinking hard.

Bai Dong did not dare to put forward the atomic theory, although this is also a naΓ―ve materialist view, but it is too advanced, he does not have the courage of Aristotle; In fact Aristotle made this view. It was also questioned by many because he could not prove it. The Chinese are much smarter than the stupid ancient Greeks, and Bai Dong doesn't want to be blocked all day long to argue.

Fire, water, earth and wind are all things that can be seen by the human eye, and people cannot live without the land, and even more so after death, so there is no need for him to explain more, the students and teachers will naturally associate human beings with the land, so the 'primordial substance' he proposed is still very convincing. The materiality of the world was solved, and the idea of the motion of matter, absolute motion and relative rest came naturally, which was equivalent to laying a good foundation for the study of physics, and philosophy and physics were partly interconnected.

The first class of thinking and learning did not talk about too many things, and the students had to digest them slowly, Bai Dong did not even expect them to be able to really accept 'thinking and learning' before graduation; philosophy is originally a thing that accompanies people's lives, and it needs to be slowly savored, and then it will be used endlessly, and now it is good to 'learn', rote memorization is the best prescription, and in the future, it will slowly reach the process of 'learning knowledge', and even draw inferences from one another, the more green out of the blue, the more gratifying he will feel.

But even if the students can't grasp the true connotation of philosophy, Bai Dong's class has also helped them open their eyes, and once their eyes are opened, it is not so easy for the teachers to hook up with the students; I'm thinking about the composition of the world now, what kind of dear love is the scorching sun, and how attractive can it be? In the pre-Qin era, when pure theoretical philosophy never appeared, Bai Dong's 'thinking' was actually easier to attract the attention of students.

Now it is the students who think about it, Bai Dong will laugh, this is the fun of the great wisdom of the Axial Age; The three-quarter hour class was over, and the students and teachers were excitedly discussing the content of his teaching, but Bai Dong saw Cao'er waving to him, and walked over to ask, Cao'er smiled and said, "My sister and sister-in-law want you to go home, saying that it is a letter from Qi Guo."

A letter from Qi State? Bai Dong's first thought was to win Shu. Kujiu is the only one who is called her sister and sister-in-law by Cao'er, and she also knows about Ying Shu, even if there is a letter, she can wait until she returns home to say, why did she deliberately send someone to call herself, could it be that something happened to Ying Shu? Thinking that Ying Shu was now a pregnant woman with Liujia, and she was still a good breed in her womb, Bai Dong's face changed, and he hurriedly called Nie Zhu to return to Baijiazhuang.

Bitter wine is now more and more like a big woman in the family, Bai Dong rushed to the house, she took a clean cloth to greet him, personally dusted off his body for him, took advantage of Bai Yue's unpreparedness, reached out and twisted it around his waist, lowered his voice and said: "The letter was sent by Tian Yinqi, and the first one to receive it was Bai Chi, who was pressed down by me, and my mother didn't know about it."

This Nizi clearly has something to say, and her smile is also weird, but Bai Dong is slightly shocked in his heart, damn it, the bitter master has finally been found? This Tian Yinqi is a cautious person, and he waited so long to write a letter, could it be that he has verified it clearly? It's not good, the dignified white son preemptively slept with the woman of the prince of Qi State, but this prince is also quite famous and good friends with Meng Ke, if this matter is not handled well, I am afraid that it will damage the reputation of the academy, and I will be disgraced.

After talking to her mother for a while, and coaxing her old man to sleep, Bai Dong pulled the bitter wine into the room: "Believe you have read it?" ”

"Hmm" Bitter Wine nodded, his mouth pursed tightly, and the expression on his face was very much like urgency.

"Is it that ridiculous?" Bai Dong breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the expression of bitter wine, he knew that things would not be very bad, and when he opened the letter, he also laughed, after all, he was the future King of Qi Xuan, and he was really a guy with brains, at least he knew how to cherish feathers.

Tian Yinqi is not a fool, on the contrary, he is a very smart guy. As soon as Ying Shu's belly was big, he knew that the problem was very strict, this child was definitely not his own, but as the most favored son of Hou's father, he really needed a descendant, and there were already good people in the city who chewed their tongues, saying that he, Liu Xia Hui of Qi State, was not clean and self-conscious, but could not be caught, this kind of rumors and rumors were too terrible, and he needed to use facts to fight back!

The fact is that Ying Shu is his wife, pregnant with his son, Hou's father is happy, the tongue chewer stops, and everyone praises the son of the world, because Qi is truly clean and self-conscious, worthy of the important responsibility of a country. As for the secret matter of helping the child find his father, of course, it is for his closest courtiers to carry it out, Lao Qin is not big, and it is not very difficult to investigate the princess's past experience.

So a thousand-mile search for his father was successfully staged in Qi and Qin, and after some logical reasoning and on-site restoration of evidence collection, Tian Yinqi finally set his sights on Baijiazhuang, thousands of miles away, good you Bai Dong! I still treat you as a friend, and you are worthy of me!

After the affair in the carriage was revealed, Tian Yinqi also experienced a short period of madness, he rushed into the palace to accuse Ying Shu, he wanted to shake up the husband, but sadly he fell into Ying Shu's way again, and the prince of Qi who was tied up by the hooves of the four horses was painful and happy, and he suddenly sadly found that this patient could only find happiness in the private room in Ying Shu, and it would never be possible to change a woman.

Tian Yinqi, who was woken up by the whip, began to calm down, and found that it was actually a very good thing for a patient like him to be cuckolded, not to mention that the person who gave him this hat was still the rich white son in the world? Well, Lao Tzu didn't suffer a loss in this matter, not only took advantage of your wife and children, but also asked your kid to pay me a good reward! Ying Shu is also very supportive of this, she also thinks that Bai Dong should repay Tian Yinqiluo, this kid is good, we can't live with others

Seeing Bai Dong's unhappy look, Kujiu gently poked him: "That Tian Yinqi is too greedy, you have a child with Ying Shu, it's just cheap for him to be a father, and you still say what kind of cure you want?" He can also say that if he is cured, do you want him to 'bully' Sister Yingshu, how can you agree to this kind of thing? ”

"Why didn't I say yes? Tian Yinqi's illness is not good, there will always be a day when it will be leaked in the future, the paper can't contain the fire, and there are no secrets in this world that can be kept forever. How should Yingshu and the child deal with themselves? People all over the world will say that my son is a wild seed, and my woman is a lewd ~ woman, which not only damages the old Qin national body, but also makes me more and more sorry for their mother and son. So even if Tian Yinqi doesn't come to ask for a prescription, sooner or later I will find an opportunity to cure his 'man's disease'."

"Although you are reasonable, you are not afraid that Tian Yinqi will be cured of her illness and will bully Ying Shu's sister in the future?" Bitter wine is now talking more and more mysteriously, and before it happens, the title of 'sister' is really on the head of Ying Shu first.

Bai Dong looked at her: "He dares!" Don't worry, only your husband and I have always given people a green hat to wear, where is the reason why others give me to wear? I have my own plans. ”

Bitter wine was stunned by what he said, carefully pondered the meaning of 'green hat', and suddenly bent down with laughter

PS: There's one more shift, oh my God, I'm so tired

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