Chapter 46: Reading History

Wang Defu did not choose the world's top philosophical academic journal "World Philosophy", nor did he choose the national "Philosophical Studies" and "Philosophical Analysis", mainly because these core journals were too lazy to review the paper submitted by a little-known college student.

After all, philosophy is not as pragmatic as science, but very pragmatic, it can be said that the subjectivity is also very strong, there is no standard answer at all, in such a situation, one's reputation and status in the philosophical community can often determine his academic height, and his reputation in other fields can also feed back to the philosophical community.

So Wang Defu is not averse to being famous at all, he hopes that his fame will be as great as possible.

The greater the fame, the greater the right to speak.

As for why he likes it, of course, it is because he found that the head of the philosophy department of his school is one of the reviewers of this academic journal, and the name of the head of the department is Cao Xuping, but unfortunately he does not teach freshman.

Wang Defu felt that before submitting his manuscript, he only needed to visit Director Cao Xuping in person, show his talent in philosophy, and rely on the good reputation he usually accumulated in school, he would definitely be able to impress the other party.

What university would exclude a gifted student who showed academic talent in his freshman year?

Today's modern universities are trying to make a name for themselves, and if a school has a genius, the university will definitely promote it.

What Wang Defu didn't know was that when he was thinking about visiting Cao Xuping, his name had already been registered with Cao Xuping.

It turned out that Director Cao Xuping was the elder of Cao Rongqing, the class leader of Wang Defu, and he was his uncle, and Cao Rongqing was completely impressed by his talent because of Wang Defu's "Listening to the Snow Night", so he went to Cao Xuping and blew a wave of Wang Defu fiercely, hoping that his family uncle could pay attention to Wang Defu's philosophy department.

Although Professor Cao Xuping is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, he loves literature and likes to write something himself, and his pen can be said to be quite good, he is the kind of philosophical scholar who likes to integrate "metaphysics" into his articles, and he praises the human soul and free will in his articles at every turn.

However, such articles can be repeatedly published as academic papers in philosophical journals, of course, academic journals at the level of "Times and Trends of Thought", and after publishing more, he naturally became a reviewer of this journal, and also made him famous in the philosophical community, which also played a key role in his ability to become the head of the philosophy department of Soochow University.

When he taught the philosophy major in his third year, he also asked students to buy his academic monograph "Philosophy and the Soul", because he would use his own books as textbooks in class, and he would also test the content of this in exams.

Wang Defu must have read the work "Philosophy and Soul" before visiting Cao Xuping, and his evaluation is that this is not a philosophical academic monograph at all, because it is completely unsystematic, and it is more of a personal conjecture and nonsense.

But Wang Defu will definitely not slap his face in the face, but will say that after reading this "Philosophy and Soul", he only feels that his soul has been sublimated, because Mr. Cao really dares to write, and academic journals really dare to publish such works......

Philosophy professors like Cao Xuping, who "sell dog meat on the head of a sheep", don't have too many in this era, as long as they can write and blow, as if the entire philosophical world revolves around them.

Cao Xuping, who loves literature, did not admire Wang Defu as much as his peers like Wang Defu's peers, but he still admired Wang Defu's writing very much.

But that's all, is it possible to let Cao Xuping, the head of the Department of Philosophy, go to Wang Defu in person and praise a freshman in person?

Wang Defu obviously hasn't fully shown such value, so he still needs to go to the head of the department and blow a wave of the other party's so-called philosophical academic focus against his will.

There is no way, this is because of the lack of reputation and qualifications, if he crosses over, he is a big man in the academic world, then no one will question him if he makes any philosophical masterpieces, and will only bow to him.

But now, if he really takes out the philosophical masterpieces that can be passed down through the ages in his mind, it will only attract all kinds of doubts and troubles, and he must first establish his image of genius, not only in philosophy, but also in literature, historiography, and so on.

Therefore, when Wang Defu was preparing to meet Professor Cao Xuping, he did not stop his accumulation in other aspects, after all, he had just finished writing "Love and Sex", and he had a lot more free time every day.

He carefully studied the famous works in the history of this world, wrote down his own experiences while reading, and then couldn't help but compare the similar works of another world in his mind, which made him feel as if he had witnessed the isomers of famous works.

It's as if there is a "Historical Record" in this world, but it was not Sima Qian who wrote the historical record, but Sima Gang, and his experience was not as miserable as Sima Qian, he did not suffer the palace punishment, but the "Historical Record" he wrote was a eunuch's work, because he had not finished writing the "Historical Records", he fell ill and died, and no one continued the ending for him.

The "Historical Records" of the two worlds are the first general history of the biography, and the biographies of some characters in it make Wang Defu feel that they are the same as each other's prototypes, but their names are slightly different, and their life trajectories are not exactly the same, but some major things are very similar, such as some assassins' biographies, Jing Ke's assassination of Qin failed, but the assassin who was the prototype of Jing Ke succeeded in assassination, but he was not an assassin, but a planner.

This also led to the fact that the assassin who was prototyped as Jing Ke was not as famous as Jing Ke, because he did not have the tragedy of "the wind is sluggish and the water is cold, and the strong man will never return" that Jing Ke failed to assassinate Qin, and then the assassinated character is not as eloquent as King Qin, after all, not everyone can be an "ancestral dragon".

All in all, Wang Defu still likes to study the history of this world very much, and will use a philosophical perspective to explore the history of this world.

At this time, Wang Defu finally received a reply from Chen Qingyan, a female high school student.