Peak 262 Unified resolution

But the question is whether we can unify the concepts of finite and infinite, so that neither side can dissolve into the other, while at the same time they are truly unified. Hegel believed that this was impossible. When denying the gap between finite and infinite, concepts were an inevitable undifferentiated revolution in thinking. However, if he wanted to affirm the unity of conceptual thinking and the unity of finite and infinite, he would inevitably deny their differences.

Hegel's concept thinking here refers to the intellectual way of thinking.

Hegel believed that it is necessary for us to have a unified synthesis that does not exclude differentiation in our daily lives. However, we cannot use an intellectual way of thinking to think about it. It is not a theoretical problem, but a practical problem that can only be achieved through life. Through ourselves, we can elevate ourselves from finite to infinite life.

To be honest, when I was a little younger than you, when I read Hegel, I didn't understand most of it, and I didn't understand this sentence either. However, the sense of nobility he gave me has been with him for my whole life. Hegel became my mentor, why?

He told you that people are of course infinite and tiny, especially when it comes to educated youth like us back then. You can't imagine what a concept educated youth is, a concept lower than that of migrant workers, because educated youth have no household registration, no salary, and are looked down upon by farmers in rural areas. Children from your city can't do anything and have little strength.

Starving to death, if it weren't for your parents in the city giving you some money now, you would have died long ago! The humiliation I have suffered in society is hard to imagine. At that time, all books were burned in order to read a book. Libraries were open after the 1970s, but I couldn't read them. Why is there no library in Xuhui Library or Shanghai Library where I was assigned? Every year when I come back to work in these libraries, there is a prerequisite to show my work permit, but we don't have one. If educated youth don't have a work permit, you can't go in. They are often pulled out and their collars are grabbed. Whether they have a work permit or not, they can't get out.

The humiliation and insult suffered by one's personality are unimaginable to you. Reading is not illegal, and your library is open to the public. You are the lowest and most despicable person in society. But I have never said that you would feel unbearable to go out, because you can enter the great spiritual world passed down from generation to generation of humanity. You can improve yourself and ultimately rise from the finite to the infinite. Have I passively remembered Hegel's words.

I find it difficult to understand now that your situation is much better than mine back then. Why do you pay too much attention to some unimportant things that I think are unimportant. Whether the paper can be completed on schedule or whether I can find a job is not important. People can always get by, and these things can be solved. What is important is how you can surpass these limitations. You will spend your whole life watching how this thing is important to me and how that event is important to me. You can say that your life is in vain. Where is your life and how do you build it.

You think these things are important, whether someone's evaluation of me is important, whether the leader appreciates me or not is important, these are not very important. What is important is, as Hegel said, to achieve unity with differences in our own lives.

There is no problem with us having life, but our ability to ascend to infinity is not a theoretical problem. Hegel admitted that nothing can be solved by our intellectual way of thinking. Elements are nothingness, differences are differences, unity is unity, differences are defined by unity, and vice versa. How can they be unified?

Of course, Hegel admitted that this is not a theoretical problem, but a practical problem. As for why I came to Chinese philosophy later, I will understand that the characteristic of Chinese philosophy is practical philosophy, which is the truth, because in fact, humans have many similarities.

This is a life that can rise from finite to infinite through oneself. It can be seen that Hegel knew that he had a religious background, and he came from a religious background, although he later did not engage in religion.

However, the education in the seminary still had an impact on him. He believed that philosophy could not do without religion. In his early years, he said this. In a sense, we can even say that philosophy is subordinate to religion. There was a teacher in the department who went abroad to study, but later studied sociology instead of philosophy. When asked why he wanted to study philosophy, he always studied sociology of religion. He said that because there is no ultimate concern in philosophy, when I study philosophy, I always have to deal with the issue of ultimate concern. Only religion can have ultimate concern, so I study sociology of religion. Don't forget that sociology of religion is sociology, not religion. This is a science, where does he come from ultimate concern.

Hegel said that philosophy is religion, and we are not Westerners. The kind of religious sentiment that Westerners have, which I may not have yet, is probably the ultimate concern. It is definitely in philosophy. You have seen many interviews with me, and I feel that when I read Hegel's Little Logic, when he gave a lecture to undergraduate students at the University of Berlin, I saw a kind of ultimate concern. However, the ultimate concern of philosophy is that he requires students to pursue truth with him, which is his ultimate concern.

This is something we all speak from our conscience. When some students talk to me about their papers or job hunting, I feel a faint sadness. My students shouldn't talk to me about this, but they also hate me for saying that this guy is the least human. Look at other teachers who love their students like children, caring for them meticulously. He is not human.

I have no choice either, because our relationship is that of a philosophy teacher and a philosophy student. We only have one goal to pursue truth, and I cannot solve the rest. I cannot tell you how to find a job or anything else. I don't think what you want to talk to me about is these things. You need to talk to me. You came here to study for me, not as a teacher. I applied for your graduate program to find a job in the future. You have to promise me that even so, we are here to pursue truth.

This is when I was 18 years old. At that time, Teacher Wu was teaching the first year of the German department. He asked me where to go and finally found the German text. In his first class, he asked them to read it and let the German department read this and Hegel's things. When you come to university, what do you pursue at the bottom? We don't have it anymore.

Nowadays, the whole society, from top to bottom, is doing something about solving the employment problem of young people, which is an intermediate approach. I came to see today that every year, there are many people wearing graduation clothes taking photos, with a faint sadness.

Philosophy shows us what is needed to overcome the contrast between finite and infinite. This is what he expressed to us, but he himself cannot fulfill the demand. Achieving the demand is the opposition between finite and infinite. We will still turn to religion, to Christianity. This is one of Hegel's ideas. He said he dislikes Judaism the most. Judaism objectifies God as a transcendent being above and beyond the finite, which has nothing to do with us or has a relationship with us. However, there is an external relationship, not a trinity like Christianity, where the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit live in us. It is not.

He believes that Judaism is a flawed concept of infinity, where he is omnipotent and omnipresent, while we are finite. This was a wrong concept, and later he liked to use it as a bad infinity. However, Christ discovered in himself the infinite as the root of his thoughts and actions, which is the correct view of infinity. This infinite is not outside of the finite, but within the finite. Every blade of grass and every insignificant life can become infinite, and there is divinity in him. It depends on whether we can investigate him. He believes that this is where Christianity surpasses Judaism.

So, at that time, I was thinking that I was often asked out to read books, and I didn't have any work, especially when I was living on the northern plain of Anhui Province, which was a vast area. Of course, there was no pollution at that time, and the place was all flat. In the summer, you were 40 degrees too hot, and at night you were just hitting the grain on the field. It was still hot on the field because the heat during the day was evaporating, but there was no wind blocking area on all sides and some hot air blowing in. I used to be there often, and there was really nothing to see because there were no lights in your place. Even if you lit an oil lamp at night, you could still see the sound of mosquitoes like thunder.

The way you come from the countryside is not an exaggeration. The sound of mosquitoes is just that loud. You haven't experienced it, have you? Besides, it's as hot as a steamer because those mud houses don't have anything to dissipate heat. Half a day's heat is all in that room

Go and see that field, countless stars shining every day. Think about these stars, they have illuminated Hegel, Copernicus, Confucius, Laozi, and even me today. In fact, if we look at their lives, Confucius and I were all at the same time, because they were only separated by more than two thousand years. How many tens of thousands of years away from us? What we can see is the light he emitted billions of light years ago. If you think like this, your mind will suddenly open up. But what is this?

It depends on how you think. What we are now, we don't take the ideas of people in the society seriously. I think it's all nonsense. Young people should be arrogant, arrogant parents on the Internet mobile phones, and popular things. Otherwise, you will be mediocre.