Chapter 70: Evidence of Destruction, Defending Your Own Being
The god of boredom was exploring the secret realm of the Valley of Forgetfulness, but was moved to a certain place in the floating pot space by the same origin Wang Feng.
At this time, he crossed Erlang's legs, chatting and talking to himself while thinking, and his face was very innocent, and he spat out angrily and laughing:
"The weather is so good, how can it be buried in the virtual world of typing, no matter how strong the reason is.
In particular, the real classics are famous after death, because only works that transcend the contemporary are eligible to be famous for a thousand years.
The names left in this world are not real names, they are false names, and they are nonsense as Mao Zhedong and Sun Monkey said, "Ten thousand years is too long, seize the day"
It's no wonder that the streets are full of greed and bad food, and a bunch of fakes have affected themselves. The author who lived in ancient China is the best example of living and a piece of evidence of ruin.
The weather is so good! You should go out for a walk, recreation is life, it's not good to be like him, and when you are young, you will know that there is something wrong with Ludao.
In his time, how could he be an official because he was greedy to be an official, a businessman could become a big businessman, a doctor, a judge, a teacher, a civil servant, everything was rotten.
Later, the highest official on the island was really greedy, and the bad cooking oil was sold for many years, and the doctor complained that there was less money and more work, the judge was not honest and untruthful, and the teacher's knowledge was getting worse and worse.
If the essence is wrong, everything is wrong.
It's like writing an article is to make money, if you don't make money, no one will read it, so you won't write it. The essence is that you only write when you want to, and how did it become that you want to make money before you write, and the order is wrong. There are a lot of natural failures and unhappiness.
Just like if a doctor didn't pass the exam, and if you didn't succeed in becoming a senior official, and you were disappointed, what is there to be disappointed about? If being an official and a doctor is your true favorite and interest, what is it if you fail! Because that's what you like!"
One of the Demon Rebels, Float Pot Space, Spinoza
Baruch and Spinoza (1632-1677) were important rationalists in the history of modern Western philosophy, along with Descartes and Leibniz.
Spinoza's ancestors were Jews living in the town of Esspinoza in the province of Sreon, Spain. In 1492, the family fled to Portugal due to religious and ethnic persecution of the Jews by the Spanish government and the Catholic Church.
He fled to the Netherlands in 1592. His grandfather was a well-respected Jewish merchant who held a prominent position in the Amsterdam Jewish Sanhedrin, and his father succeeded his father's business. Import and export trade in Amsterdam. He also served as president of the Jewish Sanhedrin and principal of a synagogue school.
Spinoza was born in the Netherlands. His parents were well-off and allowed Spinoza to attend the local Jewish seminary, where he studied Hebrew, the Talmud, and medieval Jewish philosophy.
He was also trained in Latin. And it is by virtue of Latin. Spinoza was able to come into contact with the writings of Descartes and others.
As a result, he gradually broke away from the scope of so-called orthodox doctrine. He was eventually expelled from the synagogue at the age of 24. He eventually moved out of the ghetto and made a living sharpening lenses while philosophizing.
The work of grinding the lenses hurt his health. He inhaled a large amount of glass dust at work, which was directly related to the cause of his death, tuberculosis.
Spinoza has lived a reclusive life ever since. In 1673 he was offered a teaching position in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg on the condition that religion not be mentioned, but Spinoza declined. Died at the age of 45.
The greatest of Spinoza's writings is Ethics Justified by Geometric Order, which was not published until after Spinoza's death.
Written in Euclidean geometry, the book begins with a set of axioms and formulas from which propositions, proofs, inferences, and explanations are derived.
His other two important works include Theological Politics and Political Theory. The subject of Theological Politics is biblical criticism and political theory, while the latter deals only with political theory.
Philosophically, Spinoza was a monist or pantheist.
He believed that there was only one entity in the universe, the universe itself as a whole, and that God and the universe were one and the same. His conclusion is based on a set of definitions and axioms, and is based on logical reasoning.
Spinoza's God includes not only the physical world, but also the spiritual world. He believed that human wisdom was an integral part of God's wisdom.
Spinoza also believed that God is the "inner cause" of everything, and that God governs the world through the laws of nature, so everything that happens in the material world has its own inevitability, and that God alone has complete freedom in the world and that man can never gain free will, although he can try to remove external constraints.
If we can see things as inevitable, then the easier it will be for us to become one with God. Thus, Spinoza proposes that we should see things "under eternity."
Spinoza believed that all things (not just human beings) "strive to assert their being." This effort he called conatus. This Latin word means both effort and inclination.
This double meaning is exactly what Spinoza wants, because he thinks that this effort for self-preservation is actually a tendency to the nature of all things.
All things follow their nature and strive to maintain themselves. Therefore, it is the nature of all things to strive to preserve oneself.
Ethically, Spinoza believed that a person is in a state of slavery as long as he is subject to external influences, and that as long as he agrees with God or nature, he is no longer subject to such influences, but can attain relative freedom and thus freedom from fear.
Spinoza argues that ignorance is the root of all evil.
On the subject of death, Spinoza famously said, "The free man thinks of death at least, and his wisdom is not the contemplation of death, but the contemplation of life." He also lived this adage thoroughly, and he was always very calm about death.
Spinoza was a thorough determinist, and he believed that the emergence of all that had happened was absolutely permeated by necessity.
He argues that even human behavior is completely determined, and that freedom is our ability to know what we have been decided, and why we do what we do.
So freedom is not the possibility of saying "no" to what happens to us, but the possibility of saying "yes" and understanding why something will have to happen that way, in short, taking everything that happens for granted, and there is no possibility of "no".
Spinoza's philosophy is very similar to that of the Stoics, but he has sharp disagreements with the Stoics on one important point: he completely rejects their view that motives can prevail over emotions.
Instead, he asserts that emotions can only be replaced or overcome by another, stronger emotion. He argues that there is a key difference between active and passive emotions, the former being relatively understandable and the latter not.
He also believed that knowledge with the real motivation of passive emotions could transform them into active emotions, so he saw a key idea of Sigmund and Freud's psychoanalysis.
The significance of Spinoza's philosophical system to the scientific movement of the later 17th century lies in its deterministic interpretation, which provided a blueprint for the subsequent integration of science. He had an influence on later philosophers such as Schelling, Feuerbach, Marx, and others.
Spinozaism is a philosophical doctrine with an atheistic or pantheistic nature. Spinoza denied the existence of a personal God, a supernatural god, and focused on theological teleology, anthropomorphism, and providence, demanding that nature be explained in terms of nature itself, arguing that the entity that forms the basis of the existence and unity of all things is the natural world, that is, God.
He pioneered a systematic critique of the history of the Bible from a rationalist perspective and historical methods, examined the origin, nature and historical role of religion, and established an earlier and more systematic system in the history of modern Western atheism.
It overcame the shortcomings of Cartesian dualism and combined materialism with materialism and pantheism. Later philosophers called doctrines with this characteristic Spinozaism. (To be continued......)