Chapter 43: I Think, Therefore I Am

Mondo Culture Updated on 2024-01-28

Solidify the Lord.

Having said so much above, even if I don't interpret these two words, everyone should understand the ideas expressed by Confucius. At least, understand what the conclusions of Confucius were.

I suddenly thought of a quote from Descartes: I think, therefore I am.

The translation of this sentence is very high, and "I think" emphasizes the two states of being of the self:

1. Emphasize the importance of self-worth.

2. Emphasize the way of self-worth realization.

Only when a person fully realizes his own value and can give full play to his own value can his own existence truly have the meaning of life.

René Descartes This is a very important figure of European Enlightenment thought, he is one of the few "dualist" thinkers in Europe, he is the first to clarify the "theory of talent".

But his value was gradually neglected in Europe in the eighteenth century, and it was seriously neglected.

His understanding of life is at least one of the top three in Europe since the 17th century, in my opinion.

People have a very high opinion of Descartes' physics and geometry, but ignore his life theory.

Descartes is considered "idealistic" to this day, and if he had been "idealism", he would not have come up with so many successful theories about the material world.

He is a man of the true fusion of yin and yang in Europe.

The essence of this sentence of Descartes is "to consolidate the master".

Only when everyone in the society can correctly understand their own life can they correctly understand the value and meaning of the collective, so that the value of their own life can be realized to the greatest extent.

Thus "I think, therefore I am." ”

From a translation point of view, the translator should be very familiar with Descartes' theories and at the same time be extremely proficient in our own yin and yang culture.

The most commendable thing is that the author's translation adopts the linguistic structure of the Analects, which is remarkable.

Without superb dialectical thought, it is impossible to decipher such a brilliant translation.

Let's talk about "solidifying the Lord".

"Lord" is not what we think of as "Lord", "Lord" is each person himself.

This is a fact that a person and a society must and must first admit, and only after such a cognition has been recognized by the society collectively, will we thank the collective from the bottom of our hearts for their recognition.

All your efforts are first and foremost for yourself, and your own achievements are precisely the support of the collective, which keeps everyone in the right values, so that complaints, jealousy, exclusion, and vanity will be slowly overcome.

The hostility of society will no longer exist.

In this kind of gratitude, everyone will work harder to contribute their life value to the collective. It's called heartfelt reciprocation of the collective awe.

This sentence of Descartes is for everyone, everyone is there, and it is true equality.

Respect everyone's thoughts, opinions, and values, and everyone's demands can be guaranteed, so "I think, therefore I am".

Behind this passage, I had to think again of Maslow's theory - amateurism is authentic.

Because "amateur" has no interests at all, the only thing that supports him to do it must be based on his own talent and interests, and is true love and liking from the heart.

However, after the amateur ascends to the palace, it is no longer an amateur, and it must be strictly scrutinized.

Look at whether they represent the interests of a certain minority. If so, his professionalism and authority will inevitably form a subjective expansion and an objective limitation.

So protecting every amateur around us is the foundation of humanity - so solidifying.

This passage of Confucius is the cornerstone of true human civilization.

The so-called constitutions, laws, and various systems formulated by human beings are nothing more than the implementation of humanitarian rules. If the rules of humanity are complied with, humanity will be blessed with beauty and peace, and if not, humanity will be a disaster.

If technological progress is detached from the rules of humanity, technological progress is a devastating blow to humanity.

This is literature, film and television, poetry, painting, ** and other artistic works need to constantly remind people that everyone must keep the seeds of this law in their hearts.

It is also the "red bean" written by Wang Wei, the "scrutiny" in Zhu Xi's mouth, and the "solid master" written by Confucius.

The effective combination of respecting the full play of individual values and respecting the meaning of collective values is what I call "the rules of humanity." ”

Of course, in order to fully understand our philosophical thoughts, I still need to spend energy to decipher what the philosophical ideas of our ancestors created the word "solid" and the word "master" are

Solid. The interpretation in the text is: "Solid, four stoppers." ”

Four" is here to be regarded as the whole power, the power of the Quartet;"Plug" is regarded as "establishing a protective net that can generate distance" in Mr. Xu's commentary, so it is called "separation".

The term "solid" was formally established during the Tang Dynasty. The "solid" in "Tang Yun" is interpreted as "firm".

Some people interpret the "solid" in the "Book of Songs" as "solid", which is wrong.

The "solid" and "solid" in the Book of Songs have nothing to do with each other.

The most interesting is "Guangyun", which is annotated: "Say goodbye." ”

No matter how resigned, these three words are incomprehensible to people today.

Among these three words, the word "word" is the key.

It cannot be understood as a literary technique, and "words" were often used as "when repeatedly discussed and dialectically spoken." ”

The most important of these is "repeatedly", so "farewell" means "to repeatedly express gratitude to the master." ”

On this basis, the concept of "leaving" was born.

The extended principle comes from: "The state in which both parties have to leave after repeated thanks and retention." ”

Therefore, the extension of "word" contains a strong meaning of "repeated".

For example, in Li Bai's sentence "The White Emperor Caiyunjian", why not use the words "leave, go, farewell, far" in the "words"?Because "resignation" represents Li Bai's impatient mood, he said that he "waited repeatedly" and "repeatedly justified himself" and finally waited for the result he wanted.

Therefore, he must use the word "word". The ancients wrote poems, especially in the Song and Tang dynasties, and the rhythmic beauty of the article was to serve the thoughts and feelings of the article.

This kind of thinking, under the vigorous promotion of Han Yue, continued until the Song Dynasty, until the full science prevailed.

We know that we must master two major skills in writing articles, one is the ideological depth of the content, that is, the function of the article, which is even more unsparing in Mr. Zeng Gong's old man to lead by example, his articles rarely pay attention to rhyme, beautiful vocabulary, Zeng Gong's reason is very direct, a thing is clear at all without emotional rendering, all emotional rendering is a disguised deception.

The second major skill is actually Zeng Gong's ability to render emotions against. Personally, I think that how can a sincere heart and a revealing heart avoid being emotionally exaggerated?

The emotional rendering lies in the coordination of the rhythm and rhyme of the article, as well as the second context under ingenuity.

Many of Li Bai's poems are praised because Li Bai has not only brilliant imagination, but more importantly, his appropriate literary literacy in the application of words.

While reflecting the ideological realm, it also reflects its own cultural depth and erudition.

Of course, the meaning of "solid" that I interpret adopts the ideographic method since the Han and Tang dynasties.

When we look at the classical exegetical commentaries, we will find that they all make sense, but they still do not say the essence and philosophical ideas of the word "solid". In terms of conforming to the idea of character creation, I think the annotations in the compilation of "Guangyun" by Chen Pengnian and Qiu Yong during the Song Zhenzong period are more rigorous and appropriate.

The word "solid" in hieroglyphs is a character 囗 (wei), surrounded by an "ancient" character. It is worth noting that the word "mouth" of the word "ancient" in the word "solid" has a horizontal line in it.

From the perspective of the principle of word-making and philosophical reasoning, the word "mouth" under the word "ancient" is the evolved word of the word "white".

The "ancient" character during the Shang Dynasty was a combination of today's simplified "Zhong" character graphics and the "mouth" character.

During the Zhou Dynasty, the word "Zhong" was transformed into a "ten" frame.

In Chinese characters, the characters with the symbol "ten" represent the meaning of rules, rules, rules, abilities, scopes, etc.

The apparent rationality of the range gradually evolved into the concept of explicit numbers.

Therefore, the original meaning of the word "ancient" since the Western Zhou Dynasty is: there must be a basis for speaking, and words must be according to the rules.

It is precisely this kind of philosophical thought that once the application of the word "ancient" appears in the ancient texts of the pre-Qin and even Han and Tang dynasties, it often refers to the application of quotations such as the inheritance of experience and the cognition of laws in experience.

For example, the word "ancient" in ancient times meant "the great wisdom of the past." ”

For example, the antiquity in the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing" is not a long ancient society, but refers to people with great thoughts. In our present and in any other era, it is impossible for humanity to achieve a society in which everyone is holy.

It is this philosophical thought that Mr. Xu directly annotated the word "ancient" as "so also".

What is "therefore"?

Isn't it the experience summarized in the past, the conclusions reached in the past, the records and inheritance of the past?

Gu Liang Biography "thought it was ancient times. "The same is the meaning of past experience.

The correct sentence of this sentence is: I think it is, and it is also in ancient times. The translation of this sentence is: such a positive behavior can be regarded as an experience of inheritance.

If the "ancient" here is understood as the ancients, the meaning of this sentence is "to do things in this way, most like the ancients". Let's think about it, such a commentary is meaningless, what can the ancients do?

Could it be that today's foreigners wearing Hanfu can represent the "ancient Han people"?

This passage is from "The Biography of Gu Liang" in "Huan Gong Three Years", and the beginning of this article is talking about the alliance between Huan Gong and Qi Hou and Wei Hou.

Everyone discussed together how to formulate a more reasonable convention, which affirmed Wei Houxu's adherence to the rules and consistency of words and deeds.

It is precisely because everyone's "words and deeds" and "keeping promises" have become the same standards of behavior, so this article finally describes the conclusion that "there are years of grains, and all are familiar with them".

The comments of Zigong and Confucius are also quoted in this.

This allusion Confucius spoke highly of the friendly cooperation between the two countries. There have been several different commentaries on this article in ancient times, among which Zhu Xi has the most thorough understanding.

Many scholars interpret this article as marriage, because the interpretation of this article applies the textual annotation method since the Ming Dynasty.

The word "year" in this sentence means that great achievements have been made in the cooperation of everyone working together.

"Grains" were not today's food, but were used here as abundant goods produced by mutual exchange.

All are ripe for years, and should be written: all are ripe for, there are years.

It means that "as long as everyone's attitude, cognition, and thoughts do not harm each other's interests, mutual benefit can make each other more benefits." ”

We know that the three biographies are all based on the Spring and Autumn Period, in fact, from the content of "The Biography of Gu Liang", we can also analyze the ideological system of Confucius.

It is precisely this complex structure and textual rationality of the pre-Qin texts that makes it impossible for people today to read these books at all, and they do not know what the ancients are talking about.

Records that often seem meaningless to us are the inheritance of supreme thought in the era of "swords and inks".

In fact, after reading these articles, the significance is extraordinary.

In order to facilitate the title, I gave this generation a horizontal word "Gu" and a separate name - Bai Gu.

The character "white" in "Baigu" is more similar to today's Japanese characters, and this character deliberately lacks a lot of variations.

If we verify that there is no problem with the presentation of cultural relics in the text, then this character is not a simple "white" character. He added a broader affirmation.

This kind of thinking is not unfathomable, we look at the word "white" in the hieroglyphs, there is a small braid on the head standing on the word "white", emphasizing the integrity, objectivity, and fairness.

After removing it, it's different.

The meaning becomes: anything can be said. I can say whatever I want, no evidence is needed.

This is the true meaning of the word.

So these two requirements, let's think carefully, do they correspond to the same crowd?It's definitely different.

The requirement that the speech is grounded, objective, neutral, and fair is more valuable and meaningful to those who have the right to distribute, decide, and speak.

So there is no "white" word for pigtails, he means for everyone.

It doesn't matter if you have the right to distribute or not, as long as it's against people.

Such a crowd can be understood by looking at the comment area of our daily melon-eating masses. Say anything, and you don't have to be responsible. And then those celebrities and DVDs who were angry jumped straight to their feet. Some of them even scolded each other.

Let's not discuss the problems of modern crowd relations and psychology, let's first look at what the ancients demanded of such so-called "keyboard warriors".

Bai Gu: "We found an interesting phenomenon, that is, the cross of this character is very small, compared with the cross of the word "ancient", it is simply the description of grandchildren, which is not written at random when the ancients made characters.

The rigor of our China did not fall until the Qing Dynasty and later.

This change is a way to tell everyone that while you are all free, you have to put the rules in your most important day-to-day life.

Moreover, the word "white" without pigtails represents everyone's mouth, constantly chattering.

The content of the chatter is the rules that seem to be very unimportant.

The original meaning of the ancients is: what seemingly inconsequential beliefs, justice, rules, rules, culture, thoughts, cognitions, experiences, inheritances, etc., everyone must keep chattering.

Eight-character summary - inheritance of humanity, everyone is responsible.

Because of this, the word "ancient" has a clear inheritance.

Not all experiences are valuable, and empiricism is equally harmful, but once it becomes an "ancient" experience, it becomes an experience worth passing on.

And the content of the inheritance I am talking about is the series of "humanitarian rules" mentioned earlier.

To sum up, it can be interpreted in the way of the cross of the ancients: openness, fairness, justice, equality, freedom, and goodness. The decisive factor of "fairness and justice" lies in the fact that rules and rules are put in the first place, which clearly illustrates a problem: "There is no special in front of the rules." ”

Hence, the concept of "equality" was born.

How is the "freedom" cross expressed?

If the cross is placed under the word "mouth", there is no "freedom".

There is a common saying among the common people called: "God open your eyes", "There are gods in the three feet of the head", there are many similar sayings, what is the idea behind this saying?

That is, in front of the rules of heaven, all people are "younger brothers" and must abide by them.

The three emperors, the five emperors, the six kings, and the two saints all have to bow their heads. As for the magnates and hooligans, it is not a problem.

So, the concept of "equality" in my interpretation is very clear. What does this have to do with freedom?

Because when everyone gets the same chance of getting the same treatment, it can only depend on your own hard work and talent.

So, your success depends on your state, which is collectively referred to as "freedom" in the West.

"Freedom" and "equality", in fact, there is a great misunderstanding among today's human groups.

As long as human beings have limited resources, they will certainly not be able to achieve absolute "equality" and "freedom". Equality is not average, and there have been countless times in human history that equality has been equated with average, and as a result, even the management of one's own team has become a mess.

The so-called fairness, justice, freedom, and equality are all for the rules.

Of course, our ancients called these concepts "prudence, respect, fear, authority, and prudence."

The meaning of the statement has changed, which is the same as the Chinese and English translation. Everyone is talking about the same thing, but the way the language is presented is different.

Strictly speaking, our culture has been seriously broken since the Qin and Han dynasties.

We haven't passed on our culture, or we haven't passed it on in its entirety. We were only selective and chose a culture that favored the monopoly interests of the family.

The application of a large number of the word "min" in the Book of Han, in fact, that "min" is not today's "min", Ban Gu is like seeing our cultural degradation today, and made a record in advance.

Including the word "sub" and the word "no".

For example, Dong Zhongshu, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty called people, he had to say: Doctor Zi.

Doctor, it cannot be simply understood as an official position, or it is not an official position at all.

First of all, a person's deeds are so big that everyone recognizes them that they can be said to be "doctors".

If you add "son", it means that it is not only recognized by everyone, but also admired. So the hole is "sub". And the word "husband" was added.

This is also the reason why "one husband should be the pass" cannot be written as "one person is the pass".

The one husband is the pass, not to say how easy the pass is, but to say that the people who guard the pass are very good and amazing.

Not everyone is qualified to be called a "husband", and even the ancient "horseman" is not us grass people.

Therefore, Dong Zhongshu's influence is very large.

From the analysis of Dong Zhongshu's resume, he has been very famous since the time of Emperor Wen. The record says that people are good at "Spring and Autumn", of course, "Spring and Autumn" here refers to his "Spring and Autumn Dew".

However, from the perspective of "knowledge" and "learning", Dong Zhongshu can not be summarized in a "Spring and Autumn".

Just like me today, I can never be limited to the Analects if I can interpret the Analects. And it wasn't the Analects that enlightened my mind.

First of all, my experience must be sufficient, at least not too low, and the contact area should not be too narrow. Isn't it ridiculous to say that the meat of geese is too unpalatable or too delicious?

And then there's got to have a brain that's spinning.

With this kind of high-speed brain, I have to read a lot of philosophical and intellectual works, as well as historical materials. It's not how much you read, it's about having enough ability to read and read through when you read.

That's why I often read a book to find a lot of references, because when some writers say how someone is, how they are, I have to find the works of people he admires or belittles, and I compare and think about them repeatedly.

In this process, I must list the background of the author and related materials one by one, time, experience, educational background, family background, job function, wife and children, father, father-in-law and other family relationships, so go down and check, you will find more and more contradictions, so you need more and more information, and finally you can slowly find the real reason inside.

I always keep an attitude when I read: it doesn't matter who says it, what matters is what is said.

This kind of learning Xi way and attitude is also the same in Zhu Xi's reading theory. We ancients are like this, and the reason why I use me as an example is that I hope that this book will still be helpful to people who love our culture in the future.

Learning Xi must be systematic, and fragmented knowledge is in fact meaningless. It only proves that you have heard of it, but it does not mean that you really have mastered it.

Dong Zhongshu is even more so.

In the process of peeling back the cocoon, he saw the greatness of Confucius.

I believe that he should know Confucius very well, and he understands the Book of Changes very well.

Learning Confucius culture and not understanding "Yi" is equivalent to "a blind man watching the sunrise - unable to find the east".

Therefore, Dong Zhongshu of the Han Dynasty has a very high status in Chinese history.

The theory of celestial and human induction is mostly believed to have come from Dong Zhongshu today, and that is because people today cannot read Confucius at all.

I often hear many famous people who look down on the Analects, and I often use the term "cultural disconnection" to understand their ignorance.

But as long as you can organically combine your mouth and brain, and don't rely on your own limited experience to speak, even if you only read the history books since the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty carefully, you won't be so ignorant.

The Analects of Confucius is the only book of Confucius that was boycotted by the major clans, and the Book of Jin written by Fang Xuanling clearly records the tragic situation of the Analects.

Why did Fang Xuanling make such a record?

It is the wisdom of seeing the past and understanding the future.

These factors have been understood by our cultural cattle people for generations as the way of heaven.

That is, above human beings, there is a higher energy or power to enforce the rules, and "she" seems to be like an excellent parent, letting her children play and grow to the fullest.

Her children will keep reminding them when they cross the line, and of course the children are reckless to the point of incorrigibility, and "she" can only silently watch the rules come down with tears in her eyes - destruction.

Every disaster is not an accident.

This is the core idea of the way of heaven in the mouths of Lao Tzu, Confucius, Zhuangzi, Dong Zhongshu, Shao Yong, and Zhu Xi.

Back to our word "solid".

A "Baigu" that pays attention to the inheritance of "fairness, justice, and equality" is protected in the most, and it is emphasized to the maximum, which shows the importance of "faith" that the ancients believed.

This can also be understood as the pursuit of the spiritual world, and many people in the West have made a lot of efforts to prove the influence of human spiritual power on the material world.

solid, humane and constant;The foundation of the world's common life is also.

The foundation of humanity lies in fairness, justice, openness, equality, supervision, restraint, and freedom without discrimination, and the foundation of all this lies in everyone's understanding of civil rights.

Don't get excited when you say "power", behind "power" is more important "responsibility".

The ability to take responsibility is the essence of "civil rights".

Therefore, the essence of "solidity" is to emphasize whether the subject of each person's "faith" is "money" or "fairness and justice".

Belief in selfishness and greed will inevitably be "unsolidified", and faith in fairness and justice will inevitably be "firm".

The problem with human beings is that when they live in oppression and oppression, they think of freedom. When you live a worry-free life, the freedom and justice on which your life depends become meaningless.

If everyone always treats life beliefs with such an attitude, it means that the future is getting worse and worse.

Treat the misfortunes of others as your own, and treat justice as your greatest wealth, and your Lord will be solid.

The collective brightness of society depends on whether each person has a match, a candle, a street lamp, or the sun ...... inside

Or maybe it's darkness.

Therefore, we see that the ancients believed that no matter how you express your attitude towards life, you must make reasonable beliefs and judgments on the basis of objectivity, fairness, justice, selflessness, and rationality.

Although you are a keyboard warrior and there is no legal accountability, what you say is likely to cause great psychological harm to the person concerned.

What you give to others is always criticism and denial, so what are you in your eyes?What can you do?Or what did you do?

Of course, now any bull, ghost, snake and god can jump out, so you can't just blame the critics for being bitter and mean.

The degeneration of Chinese culture means that generation after generation of people and people have lost their due responsibility and rational cognition.

Everyone should think about themselves, have we ever pretended to be anyone and anything other than our own interests?

Have you ever thought about a humanitarian disaster that has nothing to do with you?

Have you ever given up the illusion of privilege?

Isn't there the slightest hint of "** hunger and thirst" for the kind of high king in the world?

Can we really do it at the expense of our own interests for the sake of fairness?

These truths are not worth mentioning at all in the eyes of everyone today, and even detached from reality in the eyes of most people, so I see many lives that do not really live for themselves until they die.

Moreover, they all lost themselves in the abyss of darkness.

End of chapter.

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