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Chapter 406 Time is ruthless and heaven and earth are glowing ([-])
Thinking of the key point, Solucan realized something, so he supported his weak body due to illness and came to the ruined Tower of Babel.

This tower has been destroyed, and it is known as the gate to the Kingdom of God. It looks like a ruin of bricks and stones on the ground. If it is restored, it must be very tall.

However, he has seen kites before, and knows that even if the tower is restored, can kites fly high?If not, can a mere few tens of feet be able to reach the gods?

I also thought of the congratulatory speech in "The Oath of Thailand", which said, "What the people want, the sky will follow." So isn't the sky in line with people?

However, from the point of view of the Mohists, what the people want is "body" or "combination"?Is it an individual?Or is it referring to the combined name of all people in the world?
If it is an individual, then everything that everyone does for wealth, benefit, descendants, and reproduction is what the people want, and then heaven will follow it. It is a right given by God.

This doesn't seem right again.

If it's also called... He seems to have figured out some things that he couldn't understand when he talked to Juzi before.

Even though wealth, profit, music, and enjoyment are all what the people want, each individual is the people. The desires of the people and the desires of individuals are under the concept of "combination", but they must be restrained.

So, where is the boundary between the group and the self, the body and the body?

He thought of the revised "Shang Tong", and gradually understood the formation process of the historical ideal human society that Mozi said: from the beginning of a hundred people with a hundred righteousness, a thousand people with a thousand righteousness, people are chaotic and free, Infringing on other people's "interests" for their own "desires".

Therefore, for the concept of "combination" of the people, the benefit of the body and the benefit of the general are separated, and a sage is selected as the son of heaven, who collects everything and gathers the "goodness" of the people to form the "righteousness" of the world.

This kind of "righteousness" that seems to damage the "desire" of some people is actually correct for the concept of "common" of "people".

And this righteousness can be inferred by all peoples, or it can be deduced rationally.Mohists call it Tianzhi.

Then this "day" becomes interesting.

"What the people want, the sky will follow."To put it another way, can it be considered that "what the people want, what the sky wills"?

If the will of heaven is eternal, then the "will of heaven" existed before the appearance of human beings, or in the era of hundreds of people and righteousness. It's just that people didn't discover it, but the Mohists summed it up.

If the will of heaven is not eternal, that is to say, if there are no people in this world, then there is no will of heaven about "systems".But the same, as long as you have the skills of rationality and reasoning, you can also sum it up.

In this case, whether heaven exists or not is of little significance.The will of heaven can be known by existence, and the will of heaven can be deduced by the absence of existence, and "what the people want is the will of heaven", "the people are the masters of heaven", then a society where heaven does not interfere with people at all... become meaningless.

When yes or no becomes meaningless, the concept of today only exists in "arguments".

When a thing cannot be seen, touched, touched, has no influence on people, and cannot be measured and touched, does it exist or not?

When he understood this key point, Suo Lucan felt that the problem that had plagued him for more than a month was solved in an instant.

Those words that could not be understood before became clear in an instant after thinking about this point.

So Lucan thought, yes, the people are the masters of the gods, and what the people want is the will of the sky, so those things that I didn't understand before have become reasonable.

This people is "Jian" people, which is a synonym for Wanmin.

Everyone's needs can be met, that is, the needs of all peoples have been met, that is, the desires of the people and the will of heaven.

However, if everyone wants to meet their needs, they cannot rely on everyone to destroy the interests of others for their own needs, because the concept of "people" is not complete because the interests of one person are damaged.

Just like the "Feile" that Suo Lucan hadn't figured out for ten years, at this moment he finally understood the meaning of Juzi.

The Mo family is not happy.Originally, the principles of Mohism were discontinuous, independent, and not completely systematic.

Suo Lucan had no objection to Feile, he was a true Mohist.

Feile is not only a saying of Zi Mozi, but also a kind of moral sympathy, and it is also in line with what the Mohist said to benefit the world.

From the point of view of "benefiting the world" in the Mohists, Zi Mozi said: benefiting people is almost as long as it is beneficial, and it is almost as soon as it is not beneficial to others.

However, the people suffer from three problems: the hungry cannot eat, the cold cannot have clothing, and the tired cannot rest.The third is a great disaster for the people.But if you beat the giant bell, beat the drum, play the qin and se, and play the yu and sheng to raise your family members, will the people's food and clothing be secure?

Originally, it could only be explained here.

But now that he has figured out the principle of "the desire of the people and the will of the sky", he has his own understanding of "non-joy", a more systematic and theoretical understanding.

When he was in Pei County a few years ago, he remembered that Shi once said such words at a military mobilization meeting.

"We now study politics, the military, and war."

"Because we study politics, military affairs, and war; so our next generation can have the opportunity to study nine numbers, geometry, machinery, shipbuilding, farming, and various crafts."

"Because our next generation can study nine numbers, geometry, machinery, shipbuilding, farming, and all kinds of crafts; so their next generation will have the opportunity to study navigation, stars, sun and moon, music, dance, food, pictures, poems..."

"Our Mo family is not a weirdo who thinks of bliss in self-sufficiency, we just know how to truly benefit the world..."

These words were just some propaganda words at the time, and Solucan only thought it made sense at the time.

But now, after he thought about those key points, he finally understood another explanation for these words.

"What the people want, what the sky wants", is liking music a kind of desire?Is this something that Heaven likes the people to have?Is it beneficial to the world to let the people listen to music?

So naturally yes, but the Mo family is not happy, is it wrong?
Solu thinks about it, there is nothing wrong, because the people of "what the people want" are "concurrent", a collection of people, and only when everyone is qualified and capable of listening to music can they be regarded as "the people of heaven". what you want".

Before that, some people harmed the interests of others, made the people suffer, and relied on taxes to beat the giant bell, beat the drum, play the zither, and play the yusheng. Achieved "individual desire".

This individual is a min, but it is not the min in "what the people want".That Min is "Jian", and this is "Ti".

All of this is connected and self-consistent with the logic of Mohism.

Some people like music, some people don't like music.

And some people can hear the music, some people don't have the opportunity to hear the music.

The two are different.

It's like putting a bowl of rice, a piece of wheat cake, and a bowl of corn in front of a person... It's one thing for people to choose to eat wheat cake and give up rice.

But it is another thing to say that a person likes corn when there is only a bowl of corn in front of him.

Suo Lucan thought to himself: "The giant said, let everyone have their own strengths, and the world's affairs should be done; let people each have their own strengths, and the world's affairs should be done; if they divide their duties, the world's affairs should be done; everyone likes it, and the world's affairs are prepared."

"Then, it is for the benefit of the world that everything in the world should be done, that things in the world should be achieved, and that things in the world should be prepared."

"Conversely, it is also beneficial to the world to be able to make people have their own strengths, assign their duties, and everyone likes them."

"And if it can be done so that everyone can get their own strengths, assign their duties, and everyone likes it, then the world's affairs should be done, obtained, and prepared. It is an inevitable result."

"So, in fact, benefiting the world is ultimately people-oriented."

"I said, what the people want, what the sky wants."

"Then, isn't the ultimate goal of what the people want is to make people have their own strengths, assign their duties, and make everyone happy?"

"Since it is possible to make people have their own strengths, assign their duties, and everyone likes them, then the result must be that everything in the world is done, obtained, and prepared."

"If everything in the world is done, obtained, and prepared, then isn't it beneficial to the world?"

"Since this is the case, how can we make people do their best, take responsibility, and assign jobs that everyone loves?"

"This in turn requires everyone to be able to know what they like, what they are good at, and what abilities they have."

"How can everyone know what they like, what they are good at, and what abilities they have?"

"This requires everyone to meet the most basic needs and solve the three problems of the people, so that the hungry can get food, the cold can get clothes, and the tired can get rest."

"Then you can learn and know your preferences, strengths, and abilities."

"Then, how can the hungry be fed, the cold be clothed, and the tired be rested?"

"In this world there are rich and poor, the hungry have no food, the cold have no clothing, and the tired have no rest. What is it?"

"If this root cause cannot be resolved, then it will never be possible for people to do their best, take responsibility, and enjoy their work."

"If you can't do the above, it's impossible to achieve what the people want."

"If the people of the world cannot freely choose what they want, then this is falsely achieving the desires of the people, the will of the sky, and the democratic monarch."

"Everyone is free to choose what they want, which is the basis of what the people want."

When he deduced to this step, he had already touched the terrifying and real veil.

Why do the people suffer from three problems: the hungry cannot eat, the cold cannot have clothing, and the tired cannot rest?

And why would someone be able to beat the giant bell, beat the drum, play the zither, play the yusheng, eat a cauldron and cook oil?
In fact, the question that Solucan began to think about, in other words, is called "On the Origin of Human Inequality".

Suo Lucan had already thought of this, and vaguely sensed the source of the problem, but he was not going to think about it for the time being, because this might be a problem that would take a lifetime to solve.

What he thought of at this time was still the appropriate words, the words about "Because we study politics, military affairs, and war; so our next generation can have the opportunity to study nine numbers, geometry, machinery, shipbuilding, farming, and hundreds of crafts." if.

The origin is one problem, and the Tianzhi skills outside the origin are another issue.The key to the problem is to solve it, not to explain it.

Now, he has traveled thousands of miles and came to this country that is no less than the middle land of Zhu Xia. What he has to do is not only to think and explain the origin of all this, but also to learn the skills that will help realize the paradise.

This... is the source of his doubts about where to go.

Is it to go to the country of Queen Mother of the West where astrology, astronomy, and geometry are more developed?
Or go to Greece, where nine numbers, military formations, hundreds of workers, and machinery are more developed?

Or stay here to learn shipbuilding, copper art, architecture?
All of these can be learned, and all of these can help to achieve the paradise world of "what the people want".

Besides, the three-year period has come, the giant is old, and there has been no news for three years, should he go back first and come back later?
Before the ruins of the Tower of Babel, Solucan hesitated for a long time, and finally called all the Mohists to discuss the righteousness and express his thoughts.

After heated discussions, everyone voted and reached a consensus.

Five days later, Suo Lucan separated the three hundred people, sold all the silk, dyes, handicrafts and glass beads, and even took out thirty muskets and six barrels of gunpowder in exchange for enough Daliu from the governor. gram gold coin.

He personally led hundreds of people to Greece.Some people who are good at nine numbers and astronomy went to the country of Queen Mother of the West.For the rest, let them stay here after everyone has distributed a large number of gold coins, or join the shipyard, or study architecture, or join the navy as a mercenary. Look at these people How to fight naval warfare and sailing.Or, holding that money and living a normal life here is enough for a period of time.

During this period, except for the Mohists whose life is organized and must follow the rules, the rest of the people are free, and they can even marry wives and have children as long as the locals are willing.

He agreed for six years to let the separated people collect knowledge, transcribe knowledge, and record skills. See you in Babylon five years later. If you are willing to return to Middle-earth, he will take them home.

Three months later, Solucan stood in front of the majestic Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, asked the blue horse and the Spartan slaves who were traveling with him, and asked, "How far is it to reach your hometown?" ?”

　"On Liberty", the Chinese translation of Xinyada is called "On the Right of Groups and Self".But in the context of Mohism, it must be called "Concurrent Body Quanjie Theory".As I said before, Mozi used dots and line segments to explain what is body and what is concurrent in the Mohist system.In fact, it is equivalent to the group and the self.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)