Chapter 98 pessimistic

Many of Wang Guowei's family members died unnaturally, and the shadow of death has always shrouded him. In July 1907, Wang Guowei's first wife Mo Shi was critically ill due to the birth of twin daughters. Wang Guowei returned to his hometown Haining from Beijing and invited famous doctors for treatment. Ten days later, his first wife, who was only 34 years old, passed away.From 1905 to 1908, Wang Guowei suffered major changes in his life, and his father, wife, and stepmother died one after another.Wang Guowei continued to return from Beijing to his hometown Haining to attend the funeral, which shows the hardships of his life and the difficulty of making a living.

In 1908, under the auspices of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mo, Mo's biological mother, he continued to marry 22-year-old Pan Lizheng as his successor. In May 1921, the fourth daughter, Tongming, was born and died in September. In May 1923, female Ruiming died. In 1925, the eldest son Qianming died, and a year before that, a pair of granddaughters died. Wang Guowei was first influenced by Schopenhauer's philosophy in the West.Wang Guowei's study of Schopenhauer's works on philosophy and aesthetics had a great influence on his later thoughts.Because Wang Guowei resonated with Schopenhauer's works, Schopenhauer's voluntarism and pessimism, subjective idealism made Wang Guowei fall into the abyss of voluntarism and pessimism.Therefore, after the age of 30, Wang Guowei deeply felt that "the great metaphysics, the austere theory of philosophy, and the pure aesthetics are my passions. However, those who seek their credibility should prefer the empirical evidence on the theory of knowledge." Theories, the theory of pleasure in ethics, and the theory of empiricism in aesthetics.... As for the other nature, if you want to be a philosopher, you will have a lot of emotion and a lot of intellect; if you want to be a poet, you will have a lot of emotion and a lot of reason.”

The spirit that Wang Guowei said is mainly to "show others the way of liberation".But liberation is "existing in birth, not in suicide".So he said that there are only three people who can really achieve the so-called liberation: one is Xichun, the other is Zijuan, and the other is Baoyu.