Chapter 406: The Ruthlessness of Time (7)
Thinking of the key point, Solushen realized something, so he supported his body, which was somewhat weak due to illness, and came to the Tower of Babel, which was in ruins.
This tower has been destroyed, claiming to be the gate to the kingdom of God, and it seems to be full of bricks and stones in ruins, and if it is restored, it must be extremely tall.
However, he had seen the kite and knew that even if the tower was restored, would there be a kite flying high? If not, can it be that only a few dozen feet can be channeled?
I also thought of the congratulatory words in the "Thai Oath", saying "What the people want, the heavens will follow", so isn't the heavens in line with people?
It's just that the people who want it, from the Mohist point of view, are they "bodies" or "both"? Is it an individual? Or is it a concurrent term for all the people of the world?
If it is an individual, then everything that everyone does for wealth, profit, offspring, and reproduction is what the people want, then heaven will follow it, that is to say, everything that man does for this is right, even if he is unscrupulous, this is the right given by God.
Again, that doesn't seem right.
If it is a combination of ...... He seemed to have figured out some of the things that Shi and Juzi had said before that he couldn't understand.
Even if wealth, profit, music, and enjoyment are all the desires of the people, and everyone is assembled to become the people, the desires of the people and the desires of the individual must be restrained under the concept of "concurrent".
So, where is the boundary between the group and the self, the body and the both?
He thought of the appropriately revised "Shang Tong" chapter, and gradually understood the formation process of the kind of historical idealism of human society mentioned by Mozi: starting from the righteousness of a hundred people and a thousand people, people are chaotic and free, infringing on the "interests" of others for their own "desires".
Therefore, the concept of "concurrent" for the sake of the people, separated the benefits of the body from the benefits of both, and selected the sage as the Son of Heaven, which was eclectic, and collected the "good righteousness" of all the people to become the "righteousness" of the world.
This kind of "righteousness", which seems to damage the "desires" of some people, is actually correct for the concept of "people" and "both".
And this righteousness can be deduced by all the people, or by reason. The Mohists call it Tianzhi.
Then this "day" becomes interesting.
"Whatever the people want, the heavens will follow." In other words, can it be said that "what the people want, what the heavens want"?
If Tianzhi is eternal, then before the emergence of human beings, or in the era of hundreds of people and righteousness, the "Tianzhi" thing existed, but people did not find it, and the Mohists summed it up.
If the will is not eternal, that is, if there is no one in the world, then there is no will for the "system". But all the same, as long as you have reason and the art of reasoning, you can also sum it up.
In this case, whether there is heaven or not, whether it exists, is of little significance. Existence can know the will of heaven, and the absence of the will of heaven can also be launched, and "what the people want is what the will of the heavens" and "the people are the lords of heaven", then the heavens of a society that does not interfere with people at all...... It becomes meaningless.
When there is, or there is not, it becomes meaningless, and the concept of this day exists only in "arguments".
When something cannot be seen, touched, touched, has no effect on people, and cannot be measured, does it exist or does not exist?
When he figured out this key point, Suo Lushen only felt that his eyes suddenly opened up, and this problem that had plagued Yue Yu was solved in an instant.
Those words that I couldn't understand before became clear after thinking about this clearly.
Soluzan thought to himself, yes, the people are the lords of God, and what the people want is what the heavens want, so the things that he didn't understand before have become reasonable.
This people is a "concurrent" people, and it is the name of all the peoples.
If everyone's needs can be satisfied, that is, the needs of all the people have been satisfied, that is, what the people want and what the heavens want.
However, if everyone's needs want to be satisfied, they cannot rely on everyone to destroy the interests of others for their own needs, because the concept of "people" is incomplete if the interests of one person are harmed.
It's like the "Feile" that Solushen hasn't figured out in the past ten years, and at this moment he finally understands what the giant means.
Mojia is not happy. Originally, the teachings of the Mohists were discontinuous, independent, and not completely systematic.
Solushen is not against Feile, he is a true inker.
Fei Le is not only Zi Mo Ziyan, but also a kind of moral sympathy, and it is also in line with what Mo Jiali only says in the world.
From the perspective of the Mohists' "benefiting the world", Zi Mozi said: It is beneficial to others, and it is not good for others.
However, the people have three plagues: those who are hungry cannot eat, those who are cold cannot be clothed, and those who work cannot rest. The three are also the great troubles of the people. Then, when we hit the giant bell, beat the drum, play the piano, and play the flute, and raise the relatives, the people's food and clothing will be safe?
Originally, it could only be explained here.
But now that he has figured out the truth of "what the people want, what the sky wants", he has his own understanding of "non-happiness", a more systematic and theoretical understanding.
When he was in Pei County a few years ago, he remembered that Shi once said such things at a military mobilization meeting.
"We now study governance, military affairs, and warfare."
"Because we study government, military, war; Therefore, our next generation can have the opportunity to study nine numbers, geometry, machinery, shipbuilding, cropping, and hundreds of crafts. ”
"Because our next generation can study nine numbers, geometry, machinery, shipbuilding, cropping, and hundreds of crafts; So that their next generation will have the opportunity to study navigation, the stars, the sun and the moon, music, dance, food, pictures, psalms, ......"
"Our Mo family is not a weirdo who thinks we are blissful, we just know how to really benefit the world......"
These words were just some propaganda words at that time, and Solushen only felt reasonable at that time.
And now, when he had figured out the key points, he finally understood another interpretation of these words.
"What the people want, what the sky wants", is it a desire to like music? Is this a kind of heaven that the people have? Isn't it beneficial for the world to let the people listen to music?
So naturally yes, but the Mo family is not happy, is it wrong?
Solu thought that there was nothing wrong, because the people who "do what the people want" are "concurrent", a collection of people, and only when everyone is qualified and capable of listening to music can it be regarded as "the will of heaven".
Before that, some people harmed the interests of others, made the people suffer and relied on taxes to hit the giant bell, beat the drum, play the piano, and play the flute, which is not to achieve "what the people want", but to achieve "what the individual wants".
This individual is a people, but not the people in "what the people want." That people are "concurrent", and this is "body".
All this is consistent with the logic of the Mohists, and it is self-consistent.
Some people like music, and some people don't.
And some people can hear music, and some people don't have the opportunity to hear music.
The two are not the same.
It's like putting it in front of a person, a bowl of rice, a piece of wheat cake, a bowl of corn...... It's one thing for people to choose to eat wheat bread and give up rice.
But it's another thing for a person to say that he likes corn when he only has a bowl of corn in front of him.
Solushen thought to himself: "The giant said, let everyone have his own strengths, and the world should be done; so that everyone can get their own strengths, and the world should do everything; Jun his duties, the world has everything; Everything they like, the world is ready"
"Then, the world should do everything, the world should get everything, and the world should be prepared, which is for the benefit of the world."
"On the other hand, it is also beneficial to the world to be able to make people get their own strengths, divide their duties, and like them."
"And to be able to make people get their own strengths, their duties, and their likes, then everything in the world should be, get, and prepare is the inevitable result."
"Then, in fact, the benefit of the world is ultimately people-oriented."
"I say, what the people want, what the heavens want."
"Isn't the ultimate goal of the people's desires to be to make each man have his own strengths, his duties, and his pleasures?"
"Since people can be given their own strengths, their duties, and their likes, then the result will inevitably be that the world should do everything, get it, and prepare for it."
"The world should be, get, and prepare, so isn't it for the benefit of the world?"
"In that case, how can we make sure that people do their best, take their own responsibilities, and assign work that everyone loves?"
"This in turn requires everyone to know what they like, what they are good at, and what they are capable of."
"How can we let everyone know what they like, what they are good at, and what they are capable of?"
"This requires everyone to be able to meet the most basic needs, to solve the three problems of the people, so that the hungry can get food, the cold can get clothing, and the toilers can rest."
"Then you can learn and know your preferences, your strengths, and your abilities."
"How, then, can we feed the hungry, clothe the cold, and rest the laborers?"
"What is the origin of this world where there are rich and poor, no food for the hungry, no clothing for the cold, and no rest for the laborers?"
"If we can't solve this source, then we will never be able to let everyone do their best, take their own responsibilities, and enjoy their efforts."
"If we can't do the above, we won't be able to achieve what the people want."
"If you can't let the people of the world freely choose what you want, then this is a false achievement of what the people want, what the heavens want, and what the democratic monarch wants."
"The freedom of each person to choose what he or she wants is the basis for the people to do what they want."
When he deduced this step, he had actually touched that terrible and real veil.
Why is it that the people have three plagues: the hungry are not allowed to eat, the cold are not clothed, and the laborers are not rested?
And why can someone hit the giant bell, beat the drum, play the piano, play the pipe, and cook oil?
In fact, the question that Solushen began to think about is called "On the Origin of Human Inequality" in other words.
Solushen had already thought of this, and he was vaguely aware of the source of the problem, but he was not ready to think about it for the time being, because it might be a problem that would take a lifetime of research to solve.
What he thought of at this time was still the appropriate remark, the remark about "because we study governance, military affairs, and war; Therefore, our next generation can have the opportunity to study nine numbers, geometry, machinery, shipbuilding, crops, and hundreds of crafts".
The origin is one problem, and the Tianzhi technique outside the origin is another problem. The key to the problem is to solve, not explain.
Now, he has traveled thousands of miles to a land no less than the Middle-earth of the summers, and all he has to do is not only to think about and explain the origin of it all, but also to learn the techniques that will help him realize the Promised Land.
This...... It was the root of his confusion about where to go.
Is it to go to the country of the Queen Mother of the West, where astrology, astronomy, and geometry are more developed?
Or go to Greece, where the number of nines, military formations, hundred crafts, and machinery are more developed?
Or stay here to learn shipbuilding, copper art, and architecture?
All of these can be learned, and these can help to achieve the paradise of "what the people want".
Besides, the three-year period has arrived, and the giant is old and has not heard from him for three years, so do you go back first and come back later?
Before the ruins of the Tower of Babel, Soluzan hesitated for a long time, and finally gathered all the ink scholars to discuss the righteousness and express his thoughts.
After a heated discussion, everyone voted and reached an agreement.
Five days later, Solushen separated the three hundred men, sold all the silk, dyes, handicrafts, and glass beads, and even took out thirty muskets and six barrels of gunpowder in exchange for enough Dariuk gold from the governor.
He personally led a hundred men to Greece. Some people who are good at nine astronomy go to the country of the Queen Mother of the West. The rest of the people, after each of them has received a large amount of gold, let them stay here, or join the shipyard, or learn architecture, or join the navy as mercenaries, and see how these people fought naval battles and seafaring. Or, with that money, a normal life here is enough for a while.
During this period, except for the Mo, whose life and study were organized and had to follow the rules, the rest of the people were free, and could even marry and have children as long as the natives wished.
He agreed six years for the separated people to gather knowledge, transcribe knowledge, and record skills, and meet again in Babylon five years later, and he would take home those who wished to return to Middle-earth.
Three months later, standing in front of the majestic Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, Soluzan questioned the Blue Horse and the Spartan slaves who were with him, and asked, "How far do you reach your homeland?" ”