Chapter 4 "Miscellaneous Copy of Literature and History" - (11-20)

(eleven) The method of dogmatism is to express this or that principle as prescriptive by means of a particular proposition.This principle is always conditional, and thus it has a dialectic, the destruction of itself in the ego. (twelve) Any spiritual work, at any time, faces and engages in, not the existing world, but the world yet to be discovered.What each person explains is not so much a definite existence as an indeterminate imagination. What they get is not the same, but the same.The general (truth) is one aspect of the same, the particular (personal style, etc.) constitutes an important and quite different aspect.

(Thirteen) It is only by becoming your own that the outer becomes the inner.This is true of anything that is human. (fourteen) When I was a teenager, the truth made me yearn for a long time, and the truth deeply moved me.But later, I felt that the truth was like an elusive firefly, the truth was like a soap bubble, and Kant's shadow approached me. Kant saw the contradiction (antinomy) of truth, but attributed it to the defect of subjective cognitive ability. Reality exists, and so does truth, but in human cognition and practical activities, they are all limited things.Only in all mankind and all history does it approach the infinite and the absolute.Individuals should change their views on reality and truth with the development of life, but this change has contributed to human activities approaching the truth. (Kant's voice is heard in the distance: No, it is only half right, human beings are unknowable to the truth.)

(fifteen) Truth is the unity of contradictions, not something that can be grasped, something that is alive and not dead. (sixteen) The truth exists in your heart, the truth in your heart is infinite, and the truth in your life is limited. (seventeen) Human feelings, emotions and thinking are things that coexist in the human mind and affect each other (that is, the powers of the mind).There is no affiliation between them.It is an illusion to think that rational thinking is superior to emotional feeling.In fact, they just influence each other and grow each other; they help each other and form each other.

(eighteen) Another misunderstanding.That is to confuse philosophical self-reflection with general intellectual thinking.The former is thinking about oneself, that is, taking the whole mind of the self as the object of thinking, while the latter is logical reasoning and analysis. (nineteen) The feelings of ordinary people are in their own happiness, and they don't know the worries of others, but they are happy in seeing others.Fan Zhongyan's worries and joys are the fairness of reason, not the privateness of human feelings. (twenty) The more people talk about absoluteness, perfection, greatness... and brag about it, the more they should doubt that kind of sacred thing.Because such things as greatness and holiness do not exist in the human world.Deceitful and adventurous are embarrassing

for adultery.Of course, it exists for naive people, and it also exists for those with ulterior motives.The former is confused by appearance, and the latter is brandished for use.However, it does not exist for the naive, because he only loves but not understands, and he still stands on the outside.People with ulterior motives don't think it exists at all, they just use it ignorantly.Therefore, there is nothing sacred in this hopeless world, just like Kant's idea.