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Chapter 161 The Doctrine of Enlightenment (Part 2)

Because the Mohist school is not a prince, but an organization based on a certain theory, including its regime composition, is formed by rational inferences of the art of theory and is consistent in core, this kind of discussion is very common.

The lecture notes study and discussion every few days make these issues openly discussed.

This kind of public discussion and the existence of a hundred schools of thought have made this discussion less and less the aura of the saints and good people in the Mohist school, and finally figured out that it was the essence of interest groups.

The original theory of great harmony in the world in history originated from the integration of various schools of thought after the end of the Warring States Period. Even the authentic theory of great harmony in history also incorporated the visions of Taoism, Confucianism, Mohism and other schools.

Everyone hopes that the world will get better and better, and there is a general fantasy. No one explicitly says that a society that cannibalizes people is good, and the pursuit of beauty is consistent.

But it is precisely because everyone hopes that the world will be better and better, that the various schools of thought must distinguish between enemies and us, be unique, and prove that their own theories are the correct theories, and the other people's theories cannot achieve that.

In the special environment of Yunmengze, there are fewer oppositions and more contracts.

But if it is placed around Si Shang, which is produced by the budding sprouts, there are more oppositions and fewer contracts.

Although the farmers hope that the world will be prosperous, the Mohist school is the same. Even Yang Zhu, Confucianism, and Taoism have the same vision. The difference is the process of achieving the vision.

After winter, when this small town named Yunmeng once again debated this issue, Xu Ruo and others came forward to explain the difference.

Xu Ruo asked, "The salt you and me eat, the cloth you use, the muskets and powder used to hunt tiger, rhino pythons, and the farm tools used to reclaim wasteland are not produced by you and me."

"This is the biggest difference. If the world is determined, there must be a division of labor. Those who specialize in drying salt must consume less labor than those who dry salt by themselves during the slack season. It is beneficial to increase the total wealth of the world."

"Besides... don't forget that the situation here is special. We spend countless money every year, and they are supported by the outside world, so we can be happy if the small country is small and the people are happy. Once the outside world is no longer supported, we are afraid that our lives will be much harder."

"Salt and cloth are all unsupportive. If you cut off contact with the outside world now, can you still think that these methods of the farmer are good?"

"Therefore, the farmer's learning is a small country with few people and hundreds of miles. It can be done by a hundred miles, but it is a thousand miles away. It is only a fear that the world will not benefit, but will suffer the consequences."

This made the disciples of the peasant family unhappy, but Yun Mengze's situation was really special, and it was difficult to refute it if you thought about it carefully.

A peasant disciple had no choice but to say, "If the world returns to one another in the future and there will be no enemy enemy again, then the government can be divided into thousands of towns and each town is like a cloud dream."

"The wise man and the people are farming together, and the city is not worth the price. They work in the busy farming period, and weave cloth together to satisfy food and clothing, and do not sell it."

"The land belongs to the public and is divided equally among the people, and cannot be sold. If the company exchanges and waits for the labor volume, I will not lose, and he will not be profitable..."

The farmer is basically a fantasy of the lowest-level farmers, because the lowest-level farmers are double exploited - nobles and merchants.

This true equal fantasy is unrealistic, but it clearly expresses the interests of the lowest-level farmers.

When Xu Ruo heard this, he smiled and shook his head and said, "It just so happened that the enlarged meeting held by Si Shang was held for nearly two months and finally ended. Some of the contents of the meeting were also passed on here a few days ago and sent to study."

"There happens to be an explanation about these issues. I will say a paragraph. Everyone is learning and discussing, so as to achieve synonyms of the upper and lower levels."

This place is a bit far from Si Shang, and it was originally scheduled to be held in April. Xu Ruo had been held for two months due to special circumstances, so it was a few months after the content of the various meetings was passed here.

Many things were discussed at the meeting, most of which were public, because it was absolutely unrealistic to keep the conference where thousands of people participated.

There are a few books with thick learning content. Xu Ruo has been studying these days and is listening to the explanations of people sent by Si Shang.

He thought about the contents of the book and said, "The giant said that the saying of the paradise has long existed, and the song of the rat has the paradise."

"But, everyone in the world has differences about how the paradise arrives."

"If a farmer can be regarded as a fantasy paradise; while the path taken by the Mohist school is rationally speaking. Although they are all paradises, they are completely different."

"The fantasy is the moon in the well and the flowers in the water. If you want to really get the moon and flowers, but look for it from the well in the water, it is no different from the opposite direction. The rational way of knowing is realistic and can be obtained in reality."

The farmer snorted, "How do you say that ours is fantasy? What you are what reason can do?"

Xu Ruo was not impatient, and asked to face the many Mo people who were listening to the lectures together: "There is a great common ground for my Mo family, so there is no need to mention it. To put it briefly, it is to love each other and benefit each other."

"Zi Mozi talked about the basis of both love and love, and also talked about the difference between loving others and employing others. The so-called "do not love others without knowing how to love yourself." And love is precisely because of a rational inference: that is, if I love others and others love me, then two people can get double the love that I only love myself, three people are three times, and people in the world are countless times. Therefore, loving yourself and love both are dialectically unified, and love both is the highest form of loving yourself."

This is a theory that was founded more than 20 years ago. After being slightly revised, it has been formed and has been promoted for decades. The ink masters naturally understand.

Xu Ruo said again: "The Zi and Mozi era solved the problem of unification of self-loving and both loving. At this meeting, Shi Zi finally talked about self-interest and altruism, that is, the so-called unity between mutual benefit and self-interest."

"I'll ask a question here. If a person has an altruistic heart but kills that person, then is this considered altruistic?"

Everyone said, "Of course it doesn't count."

Xu Ruo asked again: "If a person only has a self-interested heart but makes others profit, then is this considered altruistic?"

Everyone also understood the difference between subjective and objective, and said one after another: "Since righteousness is profit, profit is materialism, then this is naturally altruistic and has nothing to do with the heart. But... how can there be something in this world that only seeks selfishness but is altruistic?"

Xu Ruo smiled and said, "This is what was discussed at this enlarged meeting. I will give it an example."

"Like a spun girl, she is best at weaving cloth, and her cloth is wide and beautiful."

"The spinning girl is selfish. If he wants to live a better life, he can exchange cloth for food. If he uses fine wine, he can only weave cloth hard, making the cloth more beautiful, wider, better, and cheaper. In this way, more people sell, more people will get, so he can exchange it for money and buy delicious food and wine."

"Is this fennie good for the world?"

"No, but because of his selfishness, others have put on more gorgeous, broader and cheaper clothes, making others profit. So is this considered altruistic?"

Everyone began to think about this issue, and they all felt that this was true. According to the objective, materialistic, and unified thinking methods of profit and justice that were instilled in the previous twenty years, this is indeed altruistic.

But if we look at it from the perspective of subjective, idealistic, and contradictory interests and righteousness, this is selfish.

Because the Mohist school had the tone of unity of justice and profit from the beginning, this question is not difficult to think about. Because everyone's views accept the basis of unity of justice and profit, it is easy to conclude that Fangniang's behavior is altruistic.

Taking the third table of the Mohist school, this matter does not involve the increase in population, but the second table of people's wealth and the total increase in the world's wealth, it is indeed consistent, so this behavior is in line with morality.

Even so, the unity of selfishness and altruism is still difficult for some people to accept.

So a Mohist stood up and asked, "In this way, self-interest is to be beneficial to others? Isn't this justified the princes and nobles' self-interest?"

Xu Ruo shook his head and said, "This is not the case. You and I know that wealth comes from labor, and Fangniang is earned by labor."

"What do princes and nobles rely on for selfishness? They rely on violent possession of the land, restrict farmers from working for them on the land, and exploit farmers' benefits for labor. Therefore, their selfishness is actually a harm to others."

"Energy is not necessarily altruistic. But the paradise is to love each other and benefit each other, so the selfishness above the paradise is to altruistic others."

"In other words, this question is what is the world like, and only by benefiting oneself is to be beneficial to oneself? Self-interest may not be beneficial to oneself, but if the world reaches a certain system to unify oneself and oneself, it is to love and benefit each other."

"If the system of the world is not like this, making selfishness harming others, then for us, what we need to do is not to persuade those who harm others and do not harm others and do not benefit themselves, but to change the world and take selfishness for granted, because in the new world, selfishness is to benefit others."

These contents have the foundation laid out for more than 20 years, and now they have almost come true. In addition, the emergence of the commodity economy and handicraft industry has clearly appeared on Si Shang, making this thinking no longer a kind of vague inference that cannot see the real thing.

The foundation laid for more than 20 years was finally integrated and reached an agreement at the conference that lasted for more than 1,000 people in Yusi, which lasted for two months.

Love each other and benefit each other. From solving the unity of self-loving and love both, to the unity of self-interest and altruism, and in conjunction with the theory of "labor creates wealth" that has long been circulated throughout the world, the Mohist school has completed the jump from the various schools of thought to the bourgeois enlightenment theory. The system has been formed and has become more perfect, and it is already invincible to fight against the feudal patriarchal system.

The unity of justice and profit is the basis for objective viewing of problems and the cornerstone of the theory that can be corrected.

The difference between loving others and loving yourself and using love. The theory that human nature has no good or evil is suitable. This is the basis of the bourgeois enlightenment theory by borrowing the "self-interested nature". If you love yourself, you must benefit yourself, and if you love others, you must benefit others. The final conclusion of loving both is that everyone's labor is beneficial to me and my labor is beneficial to everyone.

Although, the Mohist doctrine has been revised to a disastrous manner, but without the foundation laid by Mozi back then, such revisions cannot be discussed - if we think that justice and profit are contrary to each other, seeking profit is shameful, and the love between the clan law and the relatives of the clan law cannot be revised, and the most reactionary feudal patriarchal socialism is at most, that is, the feudal patriarchal imperial power with the skin of the great harmony of the world.

The Mo family only held the largest enlarged meeting twice in such a long time, which lasted for more than a month.

Once was the reorganization of the Mohist family under Shangqiu City a long time ago.

Once, the fantasy of stopping the world and not attacking was completely shattered, which was the time after the Giant had secured his position for five years.

The only thing that was left was the fusion between the vanguard theory and the Enlightenment theory. Because someone asked Xu Ruo: "If this is the case, self-interest is to be altruistic, so what is the use of us who want us?"
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