Chapter 57 Socrates' Calculus

In Wang Yangming's ideological and theoretical system, there is a long and tedious explanation for holy calculation: Knowing human nature, self-cultivation will not be disordered.Grasp the law of things, and your words and deeds will not be confused. ——It is holy calculation. If you investigate the origin of the matter, you can predict its termination.Observing a person's environment and residence can predict his return. ——It is holy calculation. Stay still and know what you are doing.In action, know where you are going.Understand the rules you are in charge of when dealing with things, and understand the reasons for what you do afterwards. ——It is holy calculation.

Tranquility and serenity are the foundation of holy calculations.Rules and regulations are the basis for holy calculations.The sage's mental calculation thinking is the specific concept of holy calculation.It is the nature of Shengan to start from one endpoint and spread to an endless place.It is the instinct of holy calculations to spread all over the far places in all directions and can be summed up in one hole. Okay, so much to say, so do you know what a saint is? you know? OK, that's great, please do the math for everyone first. You will immediately find that you have been listening to this class for a long time, and it is all in vain. You can't understand what is holy calculation at all.The reason why you can't understand is because the teacher who gave the lecture only mastered the method and essentials of holy calculation, but did not master the method and essentials of teaching holy calculation.

He knows how to do it, but he doesn't know how to explain it to you, and you will be miserable now. Wang Yangming doesn't know how to speak, or if he knows how to speak, he is not willing to tell you. After all, you didn't pay a penny of tuition fees.So in this world, is there anyone who knows what holy calculation is and is willing to tell you about it? This person really exists. This person was born in Athens, ancient Greece in 469 BC, named Socrates.His father was a sculptor, and his mother was a midwife. Socrates learned sculpture from his father when he was a child. Later, he began to read philosophical books of wise men, and the more he read, the more addicted he became. Conscience" - the thought system of "virtue is knowledge" has become a great thinker in human history.

Socrates "introduced conscience" two thousand years earlier than Wang Yangming, and the two came to exactly the same conclusion, and their deduction methods were exactly the same.In Wang Yangming's case, it is called the Holy Calculus, while in Socrates' case, it is called the heuristic method. Through the method of question and answer, students can gradually approach knowledge and truth and gain ideological benefits. At that time, there was an arrogant young man named Eusudamus, who came to play Socrates' game.Eusudaimos' point of view is: people should be a person full of justice.

Socrates said: Well, I firmly support your decision to be a just person, and I firmly believe that you must have the ability to distinguish justice from injustice, right? Yusudaimos said: Nonsense, who doesn't have this ability?You think everyone is mentally handicapped like you. Socrates said: "Okay, now let's take out a piece of paper, and please list the just things on the left and the unjust things on the right, so that you can teach me a mentally handicapped old man, okay?" Eusudaimus is on the right side of the paper, and in the column of injustice, hypocrisy, deceit, slavery, theft, robbery and many other evil deeds are respectively written.

Socrates was overjoyed, and immediately began to argue: You said that stealing is unjust, so sneaking into the enemy's camp and stealing their information, is this kind of theft unjust?Is it unjust to steal the knife a friend used to commit suicide in case a friend commits suicide?You say cheating is unjust, so when the child refuses to take the medicine, is it unjust for the father to lie and say that it is not bitter at all? This, this... Yusudaimos rolled his eyes when asked: So what exactly is injustice? Socrates said: The most I can tell you is what kind of knowledge we need. This is to know yourself.You cannot distinguish justice from injustice because you lack the most basic understanding of yourself.And if you want to know yourself, then you must develop conscience, have desires for all good things, and strive to let yourself master the ability to obtain these good things:

Virtue is the desire for noble things and the ability to acquire them. Socrates and Wang Yangming came together in this way. Now we finally know what it means to be holy. Holy arithmetic is the most basic logical analysis and deduction ability. Logical analysis ability is different from people's usual cranky thinking, which is just a kind of two-dimensional thinking, which consumes very little mental energy.But the ability of logical thinking is gradually approaching. It is necessary to open those parts of the brain that have not been put into operation bit by bit, such as pioneering wasteland and reclamation, which consumes a lot of mental energy.Socrates obviously knew this, so he used pen and paper as an aid.Wang Yangming foolishly only thinks in his own brain, and as a result makes himself ill.

After bumping into the wall again and again, Wang Yangming finally realized that there are no miracles in the road of sages, but only diligent thinking and continuous exploration. , the brand-new sage thoughts will quickly explode in his brain. --boom! How long do we have to wait for this day? Soon, this time it was really fast.