Carefree Prince In Tang Dynasty

Once Confucianism is pushed to the height of philosophy, it is no longer a shackle that hinders specific disciplines, but a powerful driving force. Because the core of Confucianism is actually against superstition.

The ancestor Confucius once said, respect ghosts and gods and stay away. It means that he respects what the ghosts and gods say, but he doesn't believe it. What is implicit here is respect for the unknown, rather than relying on the known to arbitrarily infer and explain the unknown, which is the so-called superstition.

Later, his protégé Ji Lu asked him how to worship ghosts and gods and the topic of death. He also calmly answered one sentence: I don't know how to live, how can I know death?

Didn't even figure out how to live, so what do you think about death so early?

It can be seen from these two sentences that Confucianism promotes a positive attitude towards reality. Different from Christian Buddhism and even Taoism in China, these religious philosophies are more or less with a negative psychology of escaping from the real world.

The three concepts of heaven, afterlife, and becoming immortal are essentially the same thing, which is a betrayal of the real world. They all assumed that there was something eternal and immortal outside the human body, and then they came up with concepts such as heaven, the afterlife, and immortals.

But in fact, people are people, just a kind of ordinary creatures. To die is to die, there is nothing left. Instead of working hard to pursue happiness in this world, but instead placing hope in the next life, at least in the Confucian system, this attitude is not admired.

Not being superstitious and having the courage to face reality are the two basic characteristics of Confucianism. Perhaps it is pursuing pragmatism a little too much, which has affected the development of basic disciplines to some extent. But this is not a big problem. Because the advancement of basic disciplines inherently requires a strong foundation of applied science.

When pursuing practicality, if science can be vigorously developed, then it will automatically promote the progress of basic disciplines after it reaches a certain level. This is also in line with the law of scientific development.

All in all, after Li Xin established a basic framework for discussing political economy, officials of the Ministry of Households quickly continued to develop and innovate on this basis. Li Xin even felt that if this continues, books such as The Wealth of Nations will probably not be anything like Adam Smith and others in the future.

The household department is equivalent to a complex of the later Central Ministry of Finance, the Bureau of Commerce, and the Ministry of Taxation. No one who can enter such an important institution as a errand is a fool. All of them are smart people among smart people, otherwise it would be an insult to the people of Datang.

After Li Xin proved the correctness of economic theory with examples, they quickly realized the importance of economics and began to study in depth.

No theory can withstand the discussion and research of a bunch of extremely smart people day and night. These household officials quickly reached a level similar to Li Xin's understanding of economics. Therefore, Li Xin had no way to give them a lesson with a shy face, so he consciously retreated to the second line and became a consultant.

The usual fixed class time allows them to play freely and argue with each other. Only when they can't argue, Li Xin will rely on his knowledge and experience that has been beyond the time for thousands of years to give a fair judgment as much as possible. For academics, this atmosphere is very beneficial.

As the saying goes, it is in the collision of knowledge that human civilization has emerged.

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