"Forget it, let's talk about these things when I go back, I'm not in a hurry anyway now." Junxin diverted the topic and said, "By the way, Princeton has a home game in the NCAA recently, do you want to go and see it?" ”

“NCAA？ What is that? Gu Mengxue asked.

"NCAA refers to the National Collegiate Basketball League, Princeton University has a basketball team, and it happens to be a Princeton and Yale Bulldog game in two days, do you want to go and see it?" Junxin suggested with interest.

"It's okay, the recent course isn't too tight, so let's go check it out. By the way, how did you get the tickets? ”

Junxin smiled and said, "It's President William, this is a gift from him, although Princeton University's basketball is really not very good, but it's not bad to go and see it once in a while!" ”

"Then it's settled!" Gu Mengxue accepted the invitation with a smile. He knew that the man in front of him didn't know how to be romantic, although he said that mathematicians were the most romantic, but in the end, this mathematician who understood romance was not him, otherwise, when he didn't even know what the NCAA was, how could he insist on inviting himself to watch the game?

However, after getting along for a long time, Gu Mengxue obviously understood Junxin's character, so she didn't care about these things, and agreed obediently.

The two of them continued to walk along the small river in front of the library, and Junxin asked, "What have you been working on lately?" How do you go to the Philosophy Museum to look up information? ”

Gu Mengxue smiled and replied: "Not long ago, the professor assigned us an assignment on the influence of the ideas of the Enlightenment on the development of modern literature, and I came here just to find some materials about the ideas of the Enlightenment. ”

"What are you going to use as a breakthrough?"

Gu Mengxue thought for a while and said, "When it comes to enlightenment thoughts, this question is a bit too broad to answer. However, the role of Enlightenment thought has always been on people, so I intend to try to explain it from a human point of view. ”

"In the establishment of the Enlightenment thought, there were many scholars who made their outstanding contributions. But whether it's Rousseau, Montesquieu or Kant, they all have different emphases, so what are you going to do? ”

"Oh?" Gu Mengxue glanced at Jun Xin in surprise and said, "How do you know all about this?" ”

Junxin smiled and said, "Actually, this is also a problem I encountered when I was conducting scientific research. ”

"Tell me about it!" Gu Mengxue asked with interest.

"You know, people study the word philosophy as the parent of all cognitive disciplines. The same is true from this concept to our scientific research. ”

"Philosophy, as a guiding discipline, is sometimes or most of the time invisible and intangible. However, for scientists, especially those from the fifteenth century to the early twentieth century, they were influenced by philosophical cognition, which also showed a certain counter-effect on the development of science. The more famous is that after Sir Isaac Newton established the theorem of gravitation, because of his belief in God, he wanted to prove the existence of God, and in the years that followed, there were few results that could be obtained. ”

Sir Newton can see the influence of the philosophical perceptions of the time on them. However, since entering the modern society, people have to face the sad reality that philosophy is dead. ”

"I don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but I'm sure I'm not the first in the current scientific community to have a similar view of philosophy."

Gu Mengxue listened very carefully, and after Junxin stopped, she asked, "Then how much do you know about the Enlightenment Thought Movement?" ”

Jun Xin was silent for a while and said, "Actually, I don't know much about the Enlightenment Thought Movement. But I know a little bit about Immanuel Kant. ”

"There are two things in the world that can deeply move me, one is the brilliant starry sky overhead, but the moral law deep in my heart." Gu Mengxue blurted out.

Jun Xin smiled and said, "Yes, this sentence is indeed very famous, especially in the astronomical world. I heard Professor Wang Yuan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences talk about astronomy before, and he mentioned this sentence. In my opinion, this phrase can be used to represent the ideas of the Enlightenment in many cases. ”

"Why do you say that?"

"This is just my second interpretation, whether Mr. Kant means it or not, I don't know at all." Jun Xin shook his head and sighed and said, "The starry sky is just a reference, from the perspective of scientific interpretation, it may be the law of science; From a sociological point of view, the starry sky may be the rational pursuit of society. In any case, the meaning of the image of the starry sky is an unknown pursuit. It is like human beings have been committed to the tireless pursuit of understanding the starry sky from ancient times to the present. ”

This is in contrast to Kant's following sentence, the former pursues the goal, while the latter is the rules and institutions in the pursuit of the goal.

"Your views are novel and can be discussed as an object of study." Gu Mengxue walked forward silently for a while, stopped and said.

Jun Xin touched his head and said, "I'm just thinking blindly, and my habitual thinking has diverged." ”

Gu Mengxue didn't answer this, but asked, "However, I never knew that you knew so much about philosophy!" ”

Jun Xin replied noncommittally: "I can't say that I know a lot about philosophy, I can only say that because of the needs of research, many times I also have to think about a problem from a philosophical point of view." ”

"Perhaps for you philosophy is a very large subject, but it is true, and it seems to me that philosophy is only a matter of habitual thinking. Newton was a theistic man, and in his philosophical understanding, everything was arranged by God. So in his later years, his research was always biased towards God's side. It's hard to say that he is to blame, it's just that his philosophy limits his perception.

"As I said earlier, one of the problems posed by the great changes in physics today is that most scientists have come to think that philosophy is dead, to a greater or lesser extent. It is precisely because of this problem that scientists are also faced with another question: whether we need a new philosophy, or whether we want it to die. ”

"Mengxue, you know, I'm also one of the people who is thinking about this. Where will the future go, do I just grope step by step to summarize it, or continue to follow the instructions of the conclusion after summarizing the conclusion! Speaking of this, Junxin's tone has become more and more solemn.