One time, when I was in class, I forgot to talk about the problem, and I suddenly asked a student: "I say you are not human, how to prove that you are a person?" The student said with a red face: "I insult him?" "In other words, how do you differ from animals?" he said. "I said. Students answer: "I can speak, I can think, I have a conscience, I can make tools." ”
Mencius said: "The people are therefore not the same as the birds of a few Greek; Shun Ming, in the People of London, by the benevolence of righteousness, non-line benevolence also. Mencius thought: The difference between man and Beast is that a little bit, people can do benevolence, to examine people of London. Mencius believed that the human being is therefore the same as the Beast. The present is the "four-end" of life, What is the "four-end"? namely benevolence, righteousness, gift, Zhide. Mencius said: "The mixed of the hidden heart, all people have, shame and evil heart, people have it, respectful heart, people have it, right and wrong heart, people have it." Mixed hidden Heart, benevolence also, ashamed of the heart, meaning also, respectful heart, gift also, right and wrong heart, wisdom also. "Think" people are four-ended also, Judaism has four also. "Benevolence Gift wisdom" four-terminal is the foundation of Mencius ' good saying, is a kind of human beings have the nature, is human and inhuman region.
"Man is the animal of the city state," said the Western philosopher, Plato: "Man is an animal with no feathers and two legs upright." Cornu says: Labor creates people.
Because we are human beings, we are high-class, we are the spiritual of all things. So the task is to find our high level to study the fundamental difference between people and animals.
Lao Tzu said: "Heaven and earth are unkind to all things as regurgitate dogs." "Heaven and earth are all things, natural and have, life and death is a common thing." The world, people and animals are foraging food, courtship, breeding, and so death. In the world, people and birds are both survival and death, what is the difference between the beast?
The Buddha said that he was willing to live, Fang Buddha. But in the world of life, I will never be exhausted. Jesus prayed, "I Atonement sin for the world!" "People are smarter than birds, saints, although Stoling, I dare not say that this kind of pit-fixing is wrong, but on the other hand, the difference between the Ming and the birds."
What is the difference between a man and a bird? The beast is between life and death. People, it should be life and death, a bit more things. This is something that may be said by Mr. Xun: "The human nature is that one wants to live, two to be saturated, and three to develop." "Maybe this is what's happening. In order to develop, so, people have a mission, honor, courage, responsibility, feelings, beliefs and so on, there is a donation to torso and Mencius called the "integrity of the atmosphere", there is "I have to teach me negative world people, Hugh teach the World people negative me" emotion.
People are so equal to the birds.
