Chapter 887: Conscience
Reason and emotion are often opposed, but they are not equivalent, reason is just a kind of brain thinking, in other words, any kind of rational thinking has its emotional basis. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Reason is acquired, and human beings are the most developed. Emotions are innate, 'people are not plants and trees, who can be ruthless', it is not easy to say whether plants and trees are affectionate, people and even birds and beasts are probably affectionate. Mencius's conscience and conscience refer to the innate emotional effect. Wang Yangming's advocacy of conscience is also seen in this.
Confucianism has the theory of good and evil sex, and Zhiqiao hates it even more, thinking that it is the root cause of fraud and hypocrisy. In fact, good and evil are the concepts of human beings, and spring and autumn killing are originally natural phenomena, and birds and beasts in the world either eat meat or herbs, but they just follow their nature.
Many religions abstain from killing, regard killing as evil, do not trample with raw grass, do not eat living animals, and are called benevolent beasts. If meat is evil and vegetarianism is good, human beings eat both meat and vegetarian, which is naturally good and evil.
As for the seven emotions: joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, evil, and desire, one is a comfortable emotion, and the other is an uncomfortable emotion. Reason is also based on emotion, temperament, emotion, and wisdom are rather in the same line, and people with good intentions are more comfortable with their feelings, and their intellect is also more in their efforts to do good, and vice versa.
Lao Tzu said, 'Absolute sainthood abandons wisdom, the people benefit a hundredfold, absolute benevolence and abandonment of righteousness, the people restore filial piety, and absolute ingenuity abandons profit, and there are no thieves'. Lao Tzu saw that this situation was due to the development of reason, in order to abandon all sage, wisdom and righteousness, and return to nature.
However, in the natural world, human beings and birds and beasts are in the same group, and they drink blood, and the day is not safe, until the saint is born, and gradually there are various productions, and human beings have subdued the fierce birds and beasts and become the lord of the earth. It can be said that only holiness and wisdom benefit the people a hundred times. Benevolence, righteousness, filial piety and kindness are also human beings' morality, and morality requires human beings to unite and help each other and carry forward their good nature. The barbarians of the wilderness, there are many on all continents, because they have no sage, wisdom, benevolence and righteousness, let alone filial piety and skill, they can only be in the same group with birds and beasts throughout the ages.
Therefore, although Lao Tzu's observation is not without merit, the proposed solution is not at all correct. Moreover, since we want the people to benefit a hundred times, why do we abandon the profits, isn't it a preface that does not match the afterword?
Lao Tzu's reason and ignorance are opposed, cancel reason, return to ignorance, although there are some effects in reducing personal desires, such as less selfishness and less desire, it is not undesirable, and it is better to say that it is self-fooling than to be carefree.
The reason for this is that Lao Tzu believes that all human intelligence and morality are bad, so he wants to cancel everything. This way of thinking has been in full swing until modern times, and it is about that moral culture is not all good or bad, just like being unprepared for a disease, whether it is a misjudgment or not, if you prescribe a prescription for absolute, abandon, reform, beat, and break, you will only hate it for not dying, but for its quick death.
Zhuangzi also said, 'Those who steal the hook will be punished, and those who steal the country will be punished'. Any moral etiquette can be kidnapped. Therefore, Ruan Ji shouted, 'Is the etiquette for my generation?' What is hidden in the heart is true morality, and what is shouted in the mouth is often false morality and immorality. It is true that moral etiquette has its drawbacks, but if everything is canceled, it will inevitably be a waste of food.
The tree of civilization can bear fruit, and it cannot but be said that it is the merit of moral intelligence, and future generations cannot kill insects and weeds to keep them alive forever, but must eradicate them completely.
Lao Tzu said that it is preferable to have less selfishness and few desires. It is debatable to learn without worry. Guy is regarded as a negative thing because of selfishness and desire, "selfishness" is indeed the great enemy of human beings, human beings can subdue birds and beasts, it is due to the emperor of the group, the organization of various groups, and "private" is the root of the collapse of the group, just like the insects and ants on the embankment, the collapse of any organization is the result of private harm to the public.
Taoists believe that 'desire' is harmful. Advocating 'preserving the principles of heaven and destroying people's desires', some religious scholars also have many abstinence ideas. The word 'widow' shows that Lao Tzu advocates temperance and desires, perhaps he thinks that selfishness and desires are difficult to stop, but they must be controlled.
As for learning, Confucianism said that learning means to imitate. 'Foresight is aware of it, and awareness is aware of it'. Humans have a history, while birds and beasts do not. It is because human beings can not only learn but also record in language and writing, and human civilization is the result of this intellectual accumulation.
'No worries about learning', of course, there is some truth. Learning is reason, worry is emotion, and emotions are comfortable and uncomfortable. Worry is probably an uncomfortable emotion. In other words, Lao Tzu believes that learning itself contains bitterness, and the more you learn, the deeper your sorrows.
Confucius regarded learning as a matter of pleasure, thinking that not learning would not only not solve his sorrows, but would reduce his enjoyment.
Lao Tzu doesn't know that emotion comes first, reason comes later, and when he has a sad mood, he will be sad when he does anything. Learn and worry, don't learn and worry, people who don't learn abound in the world, how many people can be worry-free?
Mencius said, 'Happiness in the world, worry in the world', Lao Tzu is only worried about learning, Lao Tzu is small!
Mencius is good-natured, and everyone can be Yao Shun. He also said, 'The heart of compassion is the end of benevolence, the heart of shame is the end of righteousness.' Compassion and shame are both categories of emotion. And he said, 'He who knows what a man does not care, so does his conscience.'" ’
This conscience is naturally revealed from nature and affection, so it is said to be known without worry. Sex, emotion, and intelligence are in the same vein. Wang Yangming especially advocated 'to conscience', and he did have some insight.
However, if we do not understand the trinity of nature, emotion, and intellect, and conscience is emanating from goodness and the four emotions, then the indulgent and radical temperament at the end of the school will be completely different from the conscience.
Conscience and reason are not the same, conscience is derived from goodness and the four emotions, and it is purely good, although reason is based on emotion, it is also influenced by emotion.
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Reason and emotion are often opposed, but they are not equivalent, reason is just a kind of brain thinking, in other words, any kind of rational thinking has its emotional basis.
Reason is acquired, and human beings are the most developed. Emotions are innate, 'people are not plants and trees, who can be ruthless', it is not easy to say whether plants and trees are affectionate, people and even birds and beasts are probably affectionate. Mencius's conscience and conscience refer to the innate emotional effect. Wang Yangming's advocacy of conscience is also seen in this.
Confucianism has the theory of good and evil sex, and Zhiqiao hates it even more, thinking that it is the root cause of fraud and hypocrisy. In fact, good and evil are the concepts of human beings, and spring and autumn killing are originally natural phenomena, and birds and beasts in the world either eat meat or herbs, but they just follow their nature.
Many religions abstain from killing, regard killing as evil, do not trample with raw grass, do not eat living animals, and are called benevolent beasts. If meat is evil and vegetarianism is good, human beings eat both meat and vegetarian, which is naturally good and evil.
As for the seven emotions: joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, evil, and desire, one is a comfortable emotion, and the other is an uncomfortable emotion. Reason is also based on emotion, temperament, emotion, and wisdom are rather in the same line, and people with good intentions are more comfortable with their feelings, and their intellect is also more in their efforts to do good, and vice versa.
Lao Tzu said, 'Absolute sainthood abandons wisdom, the people benefit a hundredfold, absolute benevolence and abandonment of righteousness, the people restore filial piety, and absolute ingenuity abandons profit, and there are no thieves'. Lao Tzu saw that this situation was due to the development of reason, in order to abandon all sage, wisdom and righteousness, and return to nature.
However, in the natural world, human beings and birds and beasts are in the same group, and they drink blood, and the day is not safe, until the saint is born, and gradually there are various productions, and human beings have subdued the fierce birds and beasts and become the lord of the earth. It can be said that only holiness and wisdom benefit the people a hundred times. Benevolence, righteousness, filial piety and kindness are also human beings' morality, and morality requires human beings to unite and help each other and carry forward their good nature. The barbarians of the wilderness, there are many on all continents, because they have no sage, wisdom, benevolence and righteousness, let alone filial piety and skill, they can only be in the same group with birds and beasts throughout the ages.
Therefore, although Lao Tzu's observation is not without merit, the proposed solution is not at all correct. Moreover, since we want the people to benefit a hundred times, why do we abandon the profits, isn't it a preface that does not match the afterword?
Lao Tzu's reason and ignorance are opposed, cancel reason, return to ignorance, although there are some effects in reducing personal desires, such as less selfishness and less desire, it is not undesirable, and it is better to say that it is self-fooling than to be carefree.
The reason for this is that Lao Tzu believes that all human intelligence and morality are bad, so he wants to cancel everything. This way of thinking has been in full swing until modern times, and it is about that moral culture is not all good or bad, just like being unprepared for a disease, whether it is a misjudgment or not, if you prescribe a prescription for absolute, abandon, reform, beat, and break, you will only hate it for not dying, but for its quick death.
Zhuangzi also said, 'Those who steal the hook will be punished, and those who steal the country will be punished'. Any moral etiquette can be kidnapped. Therefore, Ruan Ji shouted, 'Is the etiquette for my generation?' What is hidden in the heart is true morality, and what is shouted in the mouth is often false morality and immorality. It is true that moral etiquette has its drawbacks, but if everything is canceled, it will inevitably be a waste of food.
The tree of civilization can bear fruit, and it cannot but be said that it is the merit of moral intelligence, and future generations cannot kill insects and weeds to keep them alive forever, but must eradicate them completely.
Lao Tzu said that it is preferable to have less selfishness and few desires. It is debatable to learn without worry. Guy is regarded as a negative thing because of selfishness and desire, "selfishness" is indeed the great enemy of human beings, human beings can subdue birds and beasts, it is due to the emperor of the group, the organization of various groups, and "private" is the root of the collapse of the group, just like the insects and ants on the embankment, the collapse of any organization is the result of private harm to the public.
Taoists believe that 'desire' is harmful. Advocating 'preserving the principles of heaven and destroying people's desires', some religious scholars also have many abstinence ideas. The word 'widow' shows that Lao Tzu advocates temperance and desires, perhaps he thinks that selfishness and desires are difficult to stop, but they must be controlled.
As for learning, Confucianism said that learning means to imitate. 'Foresight is aware of it, and awareness is aware of it'. Humans have a history, while birds and beasts do not. It is because human beings can not only learn but also record in language and writing, and human civilization is the result of this intellectual accumulation.
'No worries about learning', of course, there is some truth. Learning is reason, worry is emotion, and emotions are comfortable and uncomfortable. Worry is probably an uncomfortable emotion. In other words, Lao Tzu believes that learning itself contains bitterness, and the more you learn, the deeper your sorrows.
Confucius regarded learning as a matter of pleasure, thinking that not learning would not only not solve his sorrows, but would reduce his enjoyment.
Lao Tzu doesn't know that emotion comes first, reason comes later, and when he has a sad mood, he will be sad when he does anything. Learn and worry, don't learn and worry, people who don't learn abound in the world, how many people can be worry-free?
Mencius said, 'Happiness in the world, worry in the world', Lao Tzu is only worried about learning, Lao Tzu is small!
Mencius is good-natured, and everyone can be Yao Shun. He also said, 'The heart of compassion is the end of benevolence, the heart of shame is the end of righteousness.' Compassion and shame are both categories of emotion. And he said, 'He who knows what a man does not care, so does his conscience.'" ’
This conscience is naturally revealed from nature and affection, so it is said to be known without worry. Sex, emotion, and intelligence are in the same vein. Wang Yangming especially advocated 'to conscience', and he did have some insight.
However, if we do not understand the trinity of nature, emotion, and intellect, and conscience is emanating from goodness and the four emotions, then the indulgent and radical temperament at the end of the school will be completely different from the conscience.
Conscience and reason are not the same, conscience is derived from goodness and the four emotions, and it is purely good, although reason is based on emotion, it is also influenced by emotion.
Confucius regarded learning as a matter of pleasure, thinking that not learning would not only not solve his sorrows, but would reduce his enjoyment.
Lao Tzu doesn't know that emotion comes first, reason comes later, and when he has a sad mood, he will be sad when he does anything. Learn and worry, don't learn and worry, people who don't learn abound in the world, how many people can be worry-free?
Mencius said, 'Happiness in the world, worry in the world' Lao Tzu is small!
Mencius is good-natured, and everyone can be Yao Shun. He also said, 'The heart of compassion is the end of benevolence, the heart of shame is the end of righteousness.' Compassion and shame are both categories of emotion. And he said, 'He who knows what a man does not care, so does his conscience.'" This conscience is naturally revealed from nature and affection, so it is said that it is known without consideration. Sex, emotion, and intelligence are in the same vein. Wang Yangming especially advocated 'to conscience', and he did have some insight.
However, if we do not understand the trinity of nature, emotion, and intellect, and conscience is emanating from goodness and the four emotions, then the indulgent and radical temperament at the end of the school will be completely different from the conscience.
This conscience is naturally revealed from nature and affection, so it is said to be known without worry. Sex, emotion, and intelligence are in the same vein. Wang Yangming especially advocated 'to conscience', and he did have some insight.
However, if we do not understand the trinity of nature, emotion, and intellect, and conscience is emanating from goodness and the four emotions, then the indulgent and radical temperament at the end of the school will be completely different from the conscience.
Conscience and reason are not the same, conscience is derived from goodness and the four emotions, and it is purely good, although reason is based on emotion, it is also influenced by emotion.