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Is philosophy the oldest subject?

When it comes to antiquity, it lies in its massiness.

Because of its origin, it can be said that human beings have entered the era of civilization, especially with a sense of morality and shame, then philosophy came into being, because it studies the development of society and human beings.

But it was not until ancient Greece that it became a real discipline. Philosophy is an exotic product, which is not found in Chinese. It was translated by Mr. Liang Qichao according to Japanese, but we have Neo-Confucianism, metaphysics or metaphysics.

In ancient Greece, philosophy was also a compound word: love+wisdom, indicating that only smart people could study it. You know, this is a very noble word. From ancient Greece to the later western civilization, only people with noble status can engage in the study of humanities, social sciences or philosophy, especially the later scholasticism, which directly serves God. Moreover, the first titles of western scientists in later generations are mostly philosophers, such as Aristotle: philosopher, physicist and thinker; Newton spent the rest of his life studying God; I think my Descartes is a mathematician, and so on, and there are many schools.

A hundred schools of thought contend, and people who are almost contemporary with ancient Greece are almost philosophers and thinkers. Dialectics can be seen everywhere in Laozi's Tao Te Ching. Confucius and Mencius have rich speculative thoughts, and the great writers of almost every era have also developed in philosophical thinking. The most typical one is "I don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, but toward which corner of the mountain." "Oranges born in Huainan are oranges, oranges born in Huaibei are oranges", "White horse is not a horse" and "My heart is the universe" (Wang Yangming's theory of mind) are all cultural treasures.

On the one hand, we should study philosophy seriously, not only western philosophy and China's classical philosophy, but also our guiding ideology "Marxist philosophy". Only by learning to understand and practice can we truly believe and use, and can we play the role of philosophy, because the role of theory is to guide practice. Only when we combine knowledge with practice is the meaning of philosophy, which is also the practice and understanding of philosophy. This also shows that there is philosophy everywhere in life.

Is philosophy useful?

The answer is yes, especially now what many philosophers are doing is to make philosophy alive.

The purpose of philosophy of life is to make abstruse theories easy to understand, just as we talk about the China, modernization and popularization of Marxism, especially the popularization of philosophy, such as the philosophical life of Mr. Zhou of Fudan University, and the ideological and political course, all of which use easy-to-understand language to interpret philosophy, so that the public can better understand and master it.

Philosophy is useful in our interpersonal communication and life. For example, the dichotomy of contradiction is to be fair and just: people have two eyes and should see the advantages and disadvantages of things and people; People have two ears, and they should listen to both good and bad opinions; People have one heart, but two atria, so they should think of others as well as themselves. There are also seeking truth from facts, values, concrete analysis of specific problems, the golden mean, quantitative and qualitative changes, laws, people's subjective initiative and bright future. Wait, these ideas are all philosophical theories. We use them almost every day, but we don't realize it, so philosophy is everywhere.

Therefore, philosophy is an eternal subject. Without the development of the discipline, we will not understand philosophy, and we will not keep it until now. If it doesn't develop, it will become history. The innovation of philosophy is closely related to life, because life is full of philosophy.

For more philosophical knowledge, please browse my headline article "Marxist Philosophy: Practice and Historical Materialism". You are also welcome to comment, forward and pay attention.

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