Experiencing life with aesthetic feelings 11 the influence of modern Western philosophy on China

I suddenly think Confucius said, "The gentleman is magnanimous, the villain often obsession."

I did not understand why often obsession, is the villain. Of course, this is Confucius on the gentleman and the villain of his definition.

I now understand, he said the villain is not what we are referring to today, the moral low, despicable, beggar such an image of the person.


He once said 30, 40 perplexed. Now I see some people he can not stand up 50, many people die all their lives are full of confusion.

The combination of his ideas, really can do perplexed people can definitely be called a gentleman. When a person every day in fear of fear, incomparable anxiety, full of confusion about life, at a loss of such a state, such a person is Confucius said the villain Ah.

What is the gentleman and the villain, Confucius is so understanding. So there is the "villain often obsession" this argument.

Of course, the standard of Confucius to measure people, that is the requirements of people too high ah, he said that if a person to do three, can be called a saint, this is the three Li-Li is the supreme pursuit of life, which is the highest in the secular world, I see ordinary people can not do.

In Chinese history can achieve true Sanli of people, only two half saints, the first is Confucius, the second is Wang Yangming, the second half is Zeng Guofan.

However, if a person pursues to be a gentleman, I think through their own constant pursuit can do. The gentleman is magnanimous and swinging.

Back to the discussion of modern Western philosophy, this article mainly discusses the influence of modern philosophy on China's modern times.

The above mentioned the controversy and conflict between rationality and irrationality, science and humanities.

When this kind of thought roams to China, it has a great influence on China, which is still in feudal society in modern times.

The analysis of the roots of these philosophical thoughts to our country I would simply like to say why this philosophical thought affects China?

This philosophy is actually to China's practical significance is very big, the 20 's war, science and metaphysics controversy, is this two strands of ideological battle, collision to China came, this is the era of Chinese thinkers of the famous controversy, the Fuse is Zhang Junmai in February 1923 Tsinghua University "Life" speech, a fire lit.

I tell you now how a philosophy of pointers, we today have a lot of philosophy like a scholar-type pointers, wrote a lot of people do not understand the article, I tell you this kind of people often do not know after the end of a lifetime may write a few people do not understand the article, meaning where also do not know!

Zhang Junmai's speech at Tsinghua University, years later people still know, because he is involved in China, a core problem came out, raised a question? He thinks science and outlook on life are two kinds of things.

Aren't you talking about science every day?

He said that science is objective, and philosophy of life is subjective.

It is also said that science is an ethical method, and philosophy of life is directly.

Science is the analytical method, and the philosophy of life is comprehensive.

Science is the law of cause and effect, and life is free will.

Science is the object of the same phenomenon, life is the single nature.

So the outlook on life is higher than science.

He said those two things, in fact, these two things as if one side of science is the humanities, he thought the humanistic tube is a philosophy of life, behind the foreshadowing is what is our Chinese Confucianism, what is it? Philosophy.

So he said that science can only be used, and Confucianism is Ben, Confucianism is this, because the same tube of human life, you can use science, but my height, that spirit height should be my own, my outlook on life is higher than your science.

This is what we Chinese Confucianism insist on, this idea is good? The idea is that some people agree that there is an objection, because the controversy is not over until today.

For this argument, I have my own unique thinking, science and philosophy, this is a big problem, I have the opportunity to write it later. This topic is very large, and until today, we have been exploring.

Then there is a scientist, called Ding Wenjiang out, he is engaged in earth science, and then he scold Zhang Junmai is a metaphysical ghost, he engaged in metaphysics ah, metaphysical, you see the majority of Chinese philosophy is Metaphysics xuan empty. That metaphysics you are to use clear language is unclear, his most powerful place is Xuan, that thing Xuan Ah, until today, for Lao Tzu and a lot of wise philosophers are constantly reading.

And then the man of scientism, he stressed that the scientific method is omnipotent, science to exclude personal subjective prejudice, to identify the authenticity of the facts, to confirm the detailed classification, order relations, science is the best tool for education and cultivation, the universal penetration of science and omnipotent not in the material and in the method.

This is Ding Wenjiang's point of view, isn't it? This view is in Zhang Junmai with the previous view. An emphasis on scientific science is omnipotent, one emphasizes that I am more powerful than you, life is more important than science.

Both sides actually have the reason, if does not have the reason, also will not argue, until now also cannot completely solve.

I am thinking of Zhang June in the Confucian spirit, on today's world to see his many spirit, in fact, is still very desirable, you say that we are so big a nation without its own things can not? Everything is Western right, I directly to the west to move to the line, my culture will not, so we also have no roots of their own culture, which of course is not good.

Now there is a saying that culture is soft power, I do not agree with this, I think culture is not only soft power, but he is hard strength. May and hard power this argument is more hard, you want in this world without China's own real voice, if all the voices are others, all views are others, our nation can stand in the forest of the world?

America is all right, everything is copied you the United States is finished, we do not have anything, I tell you this certainly not. The United States is able to develop, the white is to rely on his own things Ah, he is not copying others, he has his own things, he in just 200 years on the rise, you China said this century is your century, you should also have their own things, you say anything is copied from others, Can you stand in the forefront of the world?

We are now in China's economy, in the world has been the second, this feeling seems very good, but China's cultural influence can be the second?

Hard Ah, I feel that now the market is full of things are Western views, China's science and philosophy of science, you say which things are now our own, but we have to know that we are the second, and some people say that in 10 years will surpass the United States, you say that time you want to surpass the United States, rely on what more than?

Do you say that by full imitation and the cottage is more than that possible? Certainly not. So today the question is raised again. The relationship between science and culture, China has its own culture, Chinese culture can affect the world, and be recognized and accepted by people all over the world, this is the key problem. Plainly, the Chinese have their own spiritual world, their own values, thus independent of the world nationality.

Is our original, we are basically in imitation ah, you see our science, published papers, must be published in foreign journals, reached their recognition after the applause, the standard is someone else, they do not have the right to speak, and our own do not count.

In fact, there are many people in China's science community, such as Yuan Longping, he did not have any advanced education, but hybrid rice he got out, to what extent? It's sad for the Chinese to get an American to judge him, but the Chinese don't give him a fellow because it doesn't meet China's seniority standards.

And its weight is completely original, another computer expert Wang Xuan Academician, he almost did not publish a paper in the international, he was praised as China's contemporary Sheng, but his laser-typesetting system, Chinese even beautiful Chinese books are not printed out.

From the depths of science we see what is creation, what is called dogma, what is rigid, what is culture, which is worth exploring.

But we have a big problem today is that the overwhelming view is from the West, as I am writing these articles a lot of ideas are from the West, you, for example, some people understand the ideas of these philosophers, and then in his own language to repeat the understanding, this is his score, I tell you, Such people are in China, and many are called well-known philosophers.

But does China have a real philosopher? This is the most important question! A person can have their own ideas, and others are not the same, I said first, I think this is the most important.

This discussion of life and philosophy will continue. This discussion is of great significance to the new culture movement and the rise of democracy and science in China.

In fact, at that time the role of scientism should be a priority, because the background of the time, China is really poor and backward, there is no science without democracy, the result of this debate has brought Western democracy and science to China. This is the so-called Mr. De and Mr. Sai, please come over, this is the greatest significance of the controversy at that time.

The scientific spirit and humanistic spirit of the 1990 were also discussed, and this time the Shanghai literature, the Reading magazine, initiated the discussion about the humanistic spirit, which was a resounding of the discussion in the 1920 's.

How to understand the spirit of science and humanism, we can imagine the past 1920 years of people, the science and humanities understanding of what?

Is it always through suffering, the Western ship is not strong ship gun? We also have to catch up, because we have to build to defeat them, or we will be beaten, China's first scientific impulse was forced out.

But science is not only pure technology, but then to the 1990, we put forward the question of scientific spirit, the spirit is a cultural concept, science is not just technology, it is a culture, is a kind of thought, so suddenly people's understanding has become deeper.

What do people say about science in the past? Science is just a kind of artifact, or a kind of knowledge, and then this knowledge how to use logic to prove it, and then our science is to engage in these things, but if from a higher point of view, science is a spirit, is a culture.

This look the spirit of science is highly elevated, is that we have no one can see the science and what is the spirit of height, we are doing experiments, after the verification done after the end, then it is the height of it?

You're a science man, and that's the equivalent of a little scientist, what's a science man? is to let human beings to look up to you, because you are looking up at the sky, is the height of the human spirit, we engage in science today, I tell you, look at the sky is very few people, most of them are down the cart, rarely looked up to the sky.

We ordinary people, not to mention, into the complex of daily life, very few to consciously look up, the head of the sky is what?

We all seem to have done a problem, completed a project, finished, in fact, is a worker, in accordance with a certain time schedule, the work is done only this, the height of the scientific spirit has not.

In fact, the spirit of science should also have humanistic spirit in the inside, the pursuit is high, the pursuit of culture, the pursuit of taste, you say this understanding of science what role?

But in this debate, a lot of writers get up, the people who engage in literature do not understand science, he criticized scientists, said scientists are fundamentally not real intellectuals, not thinkers, but only craftsmen.

This is obviously biased, but it also has some reason, because we are now a lot of scientific people, in fact, is the craftsman is a worker, just like many teachers just Jiaoshu Jiang, not educators, Jiaoshu Jiang is what, just the knowledge of others to teach only, is not their own ideas. Certainly good teacher, certainly has own unique method, as well as the good education thought.

What is a thinker? Thinkers are not just talking about others, of course, to the general people to speak, to understand other people's ideas to speak out it has been difficult, but the thinker he should have their own thinking, forming their own ideas, scientists are the same, must have their own original things.

To have their own thoughts, have their own spiritual height, this discussion is in fact the discussion of the scientific spirit and the spirit of the relationship between the exactly what.

In the past, people thought it was opposite, I think it is not opposite, I think the scientific spirit and humane spirit is highly unified, completely consistent, if you have learned the dialectics of nature, these positivism and Scientism have played a great influence on the cultivation of our contemporary culture education view.

That is to say, these Western ideas have had a big impact on China today. Positivism and Scientism, as well as humanism, have great influence.

Nowadays, the scientific view, the cultural culture, the educational view, have a strong tendency of positivism and scientism.

First, science is the orientation of utilitarianism.

money, profit, project, what is good, can make money is OK That a scientist who has a project to earn money is a good scientist?

Newton has several projects, how many projects does Einstein have? How much money can they get? No, the greatest scientist in history may not have, and then we who are the richest, who are the greatest scientists. This leads to the utilitarian orientation of science.

In China, the neglect of primitive theoretical innovation, cottage plagiarism is rife, but scientists should be thinkers, and thought is priceless, no such environment and system, China's development of science and technology is worrying.

Of course, this is also determined by the market environment, we now engage in market economy, you this scientist still have units to live, you have to live, you have to go to earn money, find projects, this unit you give me after the project I said hello, why, earn money to support a bunch of people ah!

However, such a relationship and science itself, is two different, of course, there is a problem abroad, but others have a better environment and system of innovation, but also a higher scientific literacy, and China is this aspect of congenital defects, you also do not blindly shouting to catch up with which, if the big environment and ideas, not change words, It's all empty talk.

What the project is, the project is only more application, practical, use of mature technology, the project the more big money. You need to know that often practical strong application of strong, often the theory is not innovative, you see the basic mathematics, he project can not get, why? He is pure theory, you can not say that these pure theory is useless, you say to build something out that is applied, he can get a lot of money.

In this way, so the theoretical height of the people he quit, he slowly went to work on the project to make money, why? This is like a lot of students now, many people have chosen the University of Engineering, engineering plainly easy to earn money, pull to the project Ah, then the science, is not to get the project? Then you have to work with the workers! The third is that the liberal arts do not earn money.

Why? Because the more he gets into the liberal arts, the more he makes up his mind, so he can't earn money in a market economy.

There is another problem, our approach is to re-empirical, light innovation. This kind of heavy empirical evidence, light bold doubt conjecture innovation. We are all working, all in the verification of what, you say that all of the things you use, which is your original innovation, very little basically no.

And there is a very special phenomenon, often primitive innovation, he is marginalized by the society, that is to say I worked hard to make an innovation, engaged in an invention has not been used in the market, has long been stolen by others.

Wang Xuan at first was marginalized, he said I was 60 years old, in fact, I have nothing to do, well they began to attach importance to me, put me on the podium, TV frequently appeared, when I most need the most creative thirty or forty years old, no one to help me, through this phenomenon, There are many such problems in China that deserve our reflection.

Cultural construction, Science and humanities Disorders, the Science of Light Humanities, this is the current Chinese environment.

But in my understanding science itself is a kind of culture, a Ministry of Culture, a Ministry of Science and Technology, as if there is no technology in culture, science and technology inside no culture, as if two completely not border things, you say that science is not a culture, science in the West is exactly one of the most important culture, but we do not use culture as a culture is to use as a technology, this is a very serious problem ah!

You see our China's highest system of setting, unexpectedly is to cut them open, even the highest level of people's understanding of this level, whether it is science and humanities, how can you compete in the West?

When it comes to the current education system, it is even more disastrous. What is the current education in China? It is the positivism education, the examination-oriented education, ignoring the full cultivation and education of the people, the lack of humanity in the science education, the humanities education itself lacks the humanities, certainly also lacks the scientific nature. What we are doing all day is the test ah, the living people depressed, some children can not stand to suicide ah, do not know why to test, after the exam, it felt very smart, but you do not know, students poor ah, even jail, prison also a bit of their own freedom of thought!

In fact, when I reflect on these, today I finally understand that the so-called many examinations in fact there is no meaning, useless, the real education is what, you own development, but today, the majority of education is positivism, education and spoon-feeding, teachers and students are not equal treatment, Teaching is certainly not a long time.

This education system is very cruel ah, he did not pay attention to the student's humanity, did not treat the student as a person, he only tell you what is the ranking today, the number of scores, tomorrow up, the day after next, the teacher is concerned about the problem. Now, do you think this thing really matters?

Now listen to what a lot of people Test champion Ah, the champion came out after, it is very, my point is you stare at this champion, you see him in the future, what will be what, he just test well, test is what, test is empirical, give you a question, you put it out, this is not important. What is important is that you can put forward a thought which is the most important.

The so-called education is an interactive, mutual improvement process, regardless of the teacher and students, the result of the spoon-fed education assumes that the students are a big idiot, so that the training of students are dull, I have been a lot of classes, the foreign students in the classroom active level is shocking, and Chinese students let the teacher shouted broken throat, There is no one here to talk to him.

What is the reason, because the students are already numb, the teacher said is what is what, he has no other ideas, but also provide no ideas.

In this article, I talked about my understanding of the gentleman and the villain, how Western philosophy influenced modern China, how the Chinese contemporary education system failed. Hope to see the people, a little inspiration.

Experiencing life with aesthetic feelings 11 the influence of modern Western philosophy on China