The stinking problems of literary lightness are vivid on paper. All Chinese scholars have the traditional habit of ignoring literati and have never received the slightest reflection and correction. Everyone does it. It seems that only when they look down on can they show that literati are not a group. Indeed, this habit is logically unreasonable. Its biggest problem is that it manifests itself as a “phenomenon of comparison of knowledge” between people.
People with a little imagination should know that the purpose of people’s pursuit of knowledge is to get as close to the truth as possible, not to show off among people, or look down on themselves. Indeed, in the process of comparing knowledge between people, a person cannot achieve the goal of increasing his own value by maximizing the devaluation of others, and between the two there is no necessary causal relationship, much less a positive correlation.
This is the most typical phenomenon of “jealousy” in the sense of human nature. As long as there is a “confrontation of knowledge” between people in every sense, both sides have a persistent “jealous personality” in the context of sense. Years ago, I realized that the most insignificant phenomenon in the darkness of human nature is this type of jealous personality, which is not only useless but also seems to be beyond stupidity.
I’ve always been curious, where does this “jealous personality” of writers come from? I think it may derive from the “three-way” thought of “Confucius’s Analects”.
“Three people walk, there must be my teacher”, this sentence seems to be embedded in the conceptual order of every Chinese as the truth. It can be said that it is a golden rule. But there are actually two big loopholes in epistemology:
We learning have to be the crowd. Is there an object of learning that transcends people? Confucius did not expand in detail, he easily let them go. Indeed, Popular there is no tiger in the mountains of monkey king, dwarf is the general.
Object of study. I will there be an intertwining of human nature, will they look down on each other, and if the three of them fight, as a pupil, should I also join the fight? Confucius didn’t even think about it. In fact, the real situation of human nature theory is that the so-called three-person line may not necessarily have a situation where my teachers learn from each other, but there will definitely be a situation where three people are not from each other. agreement between them and look at each other.
Confucius is the originator of learning,method of learning is actually problematic. “I love my teacher, but I love the truth more.” Look at Aristotle: although there is no clear place for the one God in his conceptual order of him, he knew that truth had to exist. He then understands that the purpose of learning is to explore the truth, not flatter teachers, let alone flatter friends or belittle others. This principle is very simple, but Confucius did not expand it in detail. The cognitive habits of human nature are like this: if a student does not take truth as an object of learning, he can only compare himself with others. I think this is the source of the traditional habit of “self-respecting literati”.
What is the significance of a writer’s writing? Every writer has to think, the meaning of the writing literaty is to hope that after their death many people will read their works. Economist sages, He believes that person’s works are still read 70 years after death, person’s a great scholar. Adam Smith’s works are still classics of economics more than 200 years later who studies economics should read him. The things of Marx have also been read for nearly 100 years. if his articles are still used for reading and research after 70 years, he basically feels very satisfied.
Low-level illusion of the body caused by the absence of the soul. Any work is the behavior of the human soul. If a person dies and the soul disappears, then others What does the t reading have to do with the article with the feeling of your soul? You are completely gone, why should you worry about the influence behind you and you are already dead, what material do you use to feel the influence of this image?
It underestimates the value of the human soul: a person’s works thoughts inferior to the rivers flowing through the ages? Is the soul really inferior to the mountains and rivers in this world?
I thought found that the source of the problem is also here with Confucius. “If you don’t know life, how can you know death.” I haven’t figured it out yet, so what’s the point of thinking about death? It is the ignorance of death that causes us to lose our ability to abstract thinking, the care of our soul, our final imagination, and our curiosity for the truth. Consequently, the Chinese are concerned only with the praises of the world, not the rewards and punishments of the kingdom of heaven.
