Chapter 15 Title Sixteen The Boring Tradition Heir

Old Xia: Those academic trendsetters in China play with literature, methods, and language, and they just pick out the trendy and fashionable ones, while Western things are a kind of tradition. They don’t read all the way from ancient Greece, even if they have a rough idea. Especially if you don’t read Kant, you want to play analytic philosophy and philosophy of language.Text, if you want to play modern and post-modern, it is impossible to play the real thing, at most you can earn a little fame and fortune in fashion.Everyone in Western economics has a profound philosophical background and moral concern behind them, but today’s Chinese economics, with a purely academic face, raises the banner of academic neutrality and economics has nothing to do with morality. Behind this, except Apart from vested interests, I really don't see any potential for this kind of pure academics.That is to say, omitting such a long history and playing with the latest and most fashionable things can only be academic donors, opportunistic, similar to undecent businessmen, even worse than decent prostitutes with professional ethics.

Wang Shuo: You mean that famous prostitutes have professional ethics, but our academic stars have no professional ethics? Veteran: Yes.The enlightener must first check whether he is ignorant, especially the ignorance of being a human being.Educators must first be educated. Wang Shuo: You said that China has no philosophers in the past hundred years, right? Old Xia: None.At most, they are historians or philosophical followers. Wang Shuo: That is to write some history, right?Feng Youlan is in philosophy, what is he mainly talking about? What is his philosophical proposition? Old Xia: Feng Youlan's great achievement is "History of Chinese Philosophy", and later he wrote "Original Dao" and other books that claim to be his own philosophical system, without any original ideas.

Wang Shuo: Are there any of his views in "History of Chinese Philosophy"? Old Xia: In the 1920s and 1930s, there were two books on the history of philosophy that had great influence. One was written by Hu Shi and the other was written by Feng Youlan. Both of them had studied philosophy in the West. They wrote the history of Chinese philosophy through the comparison between China and the West, which is the method. Refreshing.Hu Shi was pioneering, and Feng Youlan imitated it.But Hu Shi is a common-sense guy, and his characteristic is that he can turn obscure philosophical concepts into common sense. When he introduced Dewey's experimentalism, it looked like a popular science book or a popular book.It seems that he is born to be simple and straightforward, and he does not have the kind of straight-forward and mysterious, round-the-clock talk, straight and simple truth that other Chinese people have, which makes them say twists and turns and profound.China lacks people like Hu Shi who turned liberal ideas into common sense.In the past few years, Wang Xiaobo came out. He is a common sense school, and he explained the common sense of life and the common sense of the system clearly and thoroughly.There is also Linda, who wrote a series of "A Closer Look at the United States", telling everyone about the ideas and systems of the United States through common sense in life and specific cases.Ordinary people need this kind of common sense enlightenment.The set of academics talking about big theories is a layer away from common sense, and it is difficult to translate into ordinary people's beliefs.

Wang Shuo: Hu Shi and the others had just broken with classical Chinese at that time. He must have emphasized this vernacular, trying to be as straightforward as possible without using any classical Chinese.In fact, people nowadays still speak and write with some traces of classical Chinese, such as the use of idioms and allusions, which makes them feel quite cultured.And Hu Shi's foundation in ancient studies is not shallow, he seems to deliberately not like that, his poems seem to be vernacular, and they don't read like poems, but like reciting nursery rhymes.jingle. Old Xia: In fact, those who defended traditional culture at that time, such as Liang Shuming and Zhang Junqin, also used Western things to talk about their affairs, and used them as the basis for their arguments.In the famous debate between Science and Xuan, Hu Shi and Ding Wenjiang used scientism and experimentalism, while Liang Shuming used it.Zhang Junqin and the others used Bergsonian intuitionism.They felt that Pagson's rhetoric had a special connection with traditional Chinese culture.You use Western things to deny tradition, and we use Western things to affirm tradition.

Wang Shuo: Listen to what you say, since modern times, both Chinese philosophy and literature have found their roots in the West, and they all have a bit of the smell of blue civilization. Old Xia: But this kind of borrowing is completely utilitarian and practical, and it rises and falls with the domestic fashion.Take it for a temporary mouth craving, and it will disappear as soon as the wind blows. Few people are serious about guarding a thing.Lu Xun said that all the clothes he brought were new and instant, and they were changed every now and then, just like the models at a fashion show who put on and take off and put on and don't repeat the same. This was true during the May Fourth Movement, and it is true today as well.

Wang Shuo: Do ​​you think that Japan's rectification of the West is the same as ours?Japan seems to be following the West and trying to find its own way, and it also says no to the Americans. Old Xia: The Japanese especially call it Zhener.Many of our foreign terms are re-exports from Japan.Like "philosophy", "aesthetics" and so on.The attitude of the Japanese in learning is more serious than ours, which is not the same. The research on Chinese culture done by Japanese scholars is much more solid than ours.The Chinese are too opportunistic.Many citations in master's and doctoral dissertations are read from somewhere, and they are used by others when they are cited.If something is useful for my thesis, and it doesn't take much effort, I use it opportunistically.They also know that the mentors are confused anyway.

Wang Shuo: We count hundreds of thousands of scholars, how many of them are decent? Old Xia: Oh!Now...it's hard to find! Wang Shuo: Are you saying that I want to be upright here, but I don't know how to be upright. Old Xia: Exactly.When you want to be a human being, you don’t know how to be a human being. When you don’t think of yourself as a human being and don’t want to be a human being, you have a decent reputation and live a very good life. Wang Shuo: That is to say, it is tiring and awkward to be a serious person.Shouldn’t there be some people who are a bit more intellectually true?

Old Xia: Yes, but definitely not the darling of fashion, lonely and helpless, and unable to find a way to publish a book. Today's Chinese people are too far away from serious academics and serious life. Wang Shuo: In the West, there are distinctions between seriousness and non-seriousness. I don't believe that all of them are serious in life and learning. Old Xia: There is a very influential book in the legal field called "Law and Revolution". It was written by an American professor. His name is Harold J. Berman. You can't imagine how long it took him to write this book. time.

Wang Shuo: Ten years, twenty years... Old Xia: Forty years. Wang Shuo: We are not that stupid. Old Xia: How can anyone be so stupid, just kidding!Going after the wave, if the wave can't catch up, the next wave will be "wow". Wang Shuo: Yes.Well done, done, also old, finished.Nothing to enjoy.Who wants to make such a big effort.Our school system treats scholars.Are there any quantifiable standards for the professor's requirements?I mean, how do you mix up a decent scholar?Are there any hard standards? Old Xia: The most enviable people in colleges and universities are those smart people who are both academically prestigious, just like Wang Meng back then, who was both the Minister of Culture and a well-known writer.

Old Xia: Reading in China is the opposite of that in the West.It is best to study for an undergraduate degree, and the higher the level, the more difficult it is. It takes seven or eight years to study for a doctorate.It is not uncommon to fail to read in ten years. China is the most difficult to study for undergraduates, and the higher the level, the better. A doctoral degree depends largely on the influence of the supervisor. When Westerners write papers, each note must have a detailed description of the source.A summary of views, proving that you read the book, their doctoral dissertations often have more notes than the main text.Chinese tutors will not embarrass their students so much.Whether a student's thesis is passed or not is related to the honor and face of the tutor, so it is very particular to ask who is unclear when the thesis defense is held. The knowledge of human relations here is not inferior to the knowledge of writing a thesis.I heard that you can buy a degree directly with money now.After the reform, once the money works, the human feelings will naturally become indifferent.Money is favor and relationship.

Wang Shuo: Colleges can't be so dirty.Didn't it mean that the desks on campus are still Fang Pure Land? Old Xia: For a shrewd talent like Yu Jie, even the originally clean desk will be dirty by them. If it is not dirty, it will not be famous.In the past two days, I have read a few books from their group. There is a man named Mo Luo, and the mutual flattery between him and Yu Jie has reached the extreme level.In Mo Luo's collection of essays, there is a preface written by Yu Jie and a text written by Mo Luo about Yu Jie, and the sentence patterns and sense of language are flattering to each other.The words are almost the same.Yu Jie said that in today's era, the only young scholar who can compare with him in ideological essays is Mo Luo.Yu Jie likes to use the word "most", Chen Pingyuan is "one of the most outstanding literary historians", and Mo Luo's writing is "one of the most thrilling writing" in China at the end of the 20th century. "Most" is the apex and the only meaning in Chinese, and "one of the most" is itself a trick of the language.With "the most", there is no "one".But he wanted to praise people to the "most", but he didn't want to say "the only one", so he could only use sentence patterns like "one of the most", which lack common sense of language.Looking at the end of the article where the two people winked at each other, Yu Jie said: "Mo Luo is also looking for a colder space, and I would like to walk with him. This is a road full of thorns and no road. This is a path of spiritual salvation. We are walking side by side, just like the passers-by described by Mr. Lu Xun..." Look at how Mo Luo praised Yu Jie, you must want to laugh, his article is called "What is Writing", he first listed Rousseau, Byron, Lu Xun, Kafka, and Yang Stoevsky as his favorites Respectable writing.Finally, focus on these great figures on Yu Jie, "I also understand Yu Jie's essays in the same way recently." "In my opinion, Yu Jie's writing is this kind of ideal writing." Humans are so arrogant that they all stand on the heads of giants and look down on all living beings.Look at the end of Mo Luo's flattery: "In any case... In all Yu Jie's words, after all, he is struggling with an awakened self, an awakened life... But life is both Yu Jie's life and mine. I still tend to put it as the life of some larger and vaguer being." One is on the road of no way, on the road of redemption, and the other is an awakened life; the other is willing to walk with the other side by side to the end, and the life of one is the life of the other.I want to ask, what sins are they atoning for, how can a person who wants to repent piously be so unscrupulous and flattering, he has no sense of guilt in his heart, not at all.How did they wake up?Wake up to flattering your gang little brother with the world's greatest writer. Wang Shuo: I think I'm already very thick-skinned, and I'm a good person. I didn't expect that there would be a young man who was thicker-skinned and more calculating than me.It's really fucking scary for young people, we have to stay away. Old Xia: There is also a man named Kong Qingdong who claims to be a drunk man of Peking University. His level of boasting and flattery is far inferior to the first two. His boasting portrait and the eulogy in the newspaper were written for Mr. Qian Liqun's birthday.He said: "You and your students are the inheritors of the "May Fourth" spirit, and have a clear critical awareness of traditional Chinese culture. It is precisely in us that the most precious virtues of Chinese civilization continue... Review your Students, it can be found that although they have learned the truth and learned differently, they have one thing in common, that is, they are all gentlemen and good people in morals. They can respect others, respect themselves, and be kind to others. They can also be independent, they can respect their teachers and respect their elders but they can’t talk too much, they can help each other and they are gentlemen without party. The propriety, justice, honesty and shame advocated by traditional Chinese morality, and the benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith promoted by Confucianism are all shining in them consciously or unconsciously. ……We are by your side, what we have learned is not only the profession, but the thought is more important than the profession, and the spirit is more important than the thought. You are our spiritual mentor forever!” Such birthday greetings are common in traditional Chinese It is only used for conclusions after death. I don’t know how Qian Liqun felt when he read such a birthday speech. If someone praises you like this, you will think that he is not wishing you a birthday, but cursing you to go to the grave as soon as possible.This text can be regarded as this group of doctors.A self-portrait of a philistine scholar with a master's title.Just such a group of people still have to be righteous, and they are also called "black horses", unless all the people in the world are dead, and only a few of them are left open to each other.