The dialectical relationship between useful and useless, the dialectical relationship between being

Zhuangzi has a cloud: "Gui is edible, so cut it down; Lacquer can be used, so cut it. Everyone knows what is useful, but what is useless is not. ”

After reading it, I can't help but think of a sentence that seems useless people said (I dare not agree) called "It is useless to hand over me, and it is not good to offend me", in fact, it is nothing more than a warning to people: don't look down on others, don't be too utilitarian, people are terrible, word of mouth is important, the right to speak and the right to supervise are important, not to be used and handed over, and not to be useful to hand over useless, let alone "use people forward, not to use people backward", watch people put down dishes, see the wind and rudder, there is use value, use value is useful, no benefit, no benefit is useless, Even abandoned, disliked, rejected, bored, like strangers, disdainful. Be cautious, self-disciplined, rational, humble, learn to respect, learn to be grateful, respect the dignity of others, understand the needs of others, be familiar with the strengths of others, take into account the feelings of others, understand the supervision of others, and be in awe of others' warnings.

The ruler is short and the inch is long, it doesn't matter whether it is useful or useless, don't you know that sometimes "the useless use is the great use"?

In real life, many times, many things, and many people, it is useless to see but it is actually useful, and the Tao is useless but useful. Russell said: Read more "useless books", those seemingly useless books, there are ideas, philosophy and fun in them.

Mo Yan said: "Literature and science are really useless. However, its uselessness is precisely its great usefulness", and the role of spiritual culture lies in dispelling doubts and doubts, imperceptibly, and in a far-reaching and lasting manner.

"Useful" and "useless" are opposites and unity, and the two are always interdependent. There is no such thing as "useless" or "useful", and the two can also be transformed into each other. In terms of time, this time and that time; Spatially, here and there; In things, use this and that; In terms of characters, this person does this, that person does that, and the results are very different in different time and space, and different characters are very different.

People and things, have strengths and weaknesses, strengths and weaknesses, but people make the best use of their talents, make the best use of things, promote strengths and avoid weaknesses can always come in handy, useful and useless is only relative, to consider the problem from multiple angles and in all directions, can not be simple and sloppy, can not know the stereotyped thinking, can not know only one but do not know the reason for it, can not only know one of the two, can not only see the trees but not the forest, maybe which of the useless things in your eyes, people, change the time, change the place is a priceless treasure.

"Being" and "nothing" are important contradictory concepts in Lao Tzu's philosophy. In the forty-first chapter of the Tao Te Ching, he said: "Everything under heaven is born from being, and some are born from nothing."

The traditional view is mostly understood from an ontological point of view, which holds that "being" refers to something tangible, while "nothing" refers to something intangible, and then believes that the process of "Tao giving birth to all things" is the process of moving from the intangible to the tangible. This point of view is worthy of the regimental tomb.

Taoism has no thoughts.

The question of the relationship between "have" and "nothing" is also an important issue in European philosophy, which has been discussed in Aristotle's "Theory of Four Causes" in ancient Greece and Hegel's "Theory of Existence" in modern times, but most of the "nothing" they say refers to the thinking or spirit as the origin of the world, which is not the same as the "nothing" in the epistemological sense mentioned by Lao Tzu. Lenin also spoke about this problem in his Philosophical Notes, saying: "In nature and in life, there is a movement of 'development to nothing'.

However, there is no such thing as a 'starting from scratch' movement. ”

It doesn't matter if the building has or not.

This is to say that the unique wisdom of our nation has been passed down through the ages and has been endless.

Well, our ancestors saw knowing as the process of moving from not knowing (nothing) to knowing (being). Both Lao Tzu and Confucius, and later Song and Ming Dynasty all thought so.

Then in the universe, our ancestors did not know what the earliest origin was, so they said that it was "nothing", which is equivalent to the contradictory process of first developing Wuji to Taiji, which is essentially reluctantly called "Tao".

At the level of "absolute spirit", it can be said that nothing and being are dialectically unified.

So "nothing" is not nothing, for example, now scientists say that the universe was formed in the big **, isn't this "nothing". "Being" refers to the myriad phenomena of the universe after the creation of the universe, that is, the phenomena that we can see by our senses.

Nothing is the fact that there is to explain the existence of nothing, and there is the fact that there is nothing to explain the existence of being.

Nothing is meaningful, and there is no meaning.

The book is full of wisdom and is written with a great deal of precision. The book delves into those who attack knowledge by focusing on the nature of human nature, love, beauty, identity, etc., as well as topics such as scandals in academia, identity politics, multiculturalism, and corporatization in academia. Daniel Cottonm argues that hostility to education cannot simply be seen as a barbaric, stupid, and nihilistic response, and addresses the above topics from a fresh perspective, and his arguments are understandable to those outside the academic circle.

Education is useless because it breaks our common sense, it deprives us of something other than humanity, it numbs our hearts, makes us pretentious, and we get dizzy with pride. Nerd characters have long been the subject of suspicion and contempt, and perhaps the worst of this in the United States in the last 20 years. For example, education critics have used Martin Heidegger's Nazism to prove that highly educated people are inhuman; They think academia is overflowing.

It always seems that there is always more reason to destroy the ivory tower than to praise it. The uselessness of education, especially in the humanities, is a subject of great concern in the history of Western culture. As a book on cultural debate and analysis, "Why Education is Useless" fully demonstrates the author's talent and is also very thought-provoking.

Drawing heavily on literature, philosophy, art, film, and other fields, the book is fueled by the corollary that hostility to education is an extremely complex phenomenon in historical and contemporary American life. According to Cottonham, if we are to recognize the manifestations of such hostility and face them with courage, then we must understand the enduring fascination of this confrontation.