The Core Argument of the Theory of Taiji Evolutionism (Modified)
来源:The speech draft on the Philosophical meeting in Shanghai in 2020 | 作者:Yong Duan | 发布时间: 2023-08-15 | 9507 次浏览 | 分享到:

Plato believes that the human soul is composed of reason, passion and desire, which is not comprehensive. The existence of subjective world includes Xin(心), Xing(性), Qing(情), Yi(意) and Thought Products.


Figure 1. Composition of the World.

In Chinese, Xin means the heart, here it refers to the thought in the brain. The thought includes perceptual thinking and rational thinking. Xing refers to human nature, needs and interests. Nature includes human temper, disposition, habits, character, cultivation, sentiment and spirit. Qing includes emotion, feeling and vision. Feeling includes bitterness, joy, happy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, evil, surprise, worry and so on. Feeling is the main driving force to produce the will of behavior. When people’s feelings develop into passions, it will produce the biggest driving force to behavior, and people will burst out with great creativity, fighting power or destructive power. Emotion is relatively short feeling, including anxiety, excitement, panic, satisfaction, pride, etc. Vision is relatively rational feeling with a certain moral concept or belief value orientation, such as wish, dream, ideal, yearning, and so on. Yi means the direct power that governs people’s behavior, including people’s attitude, will, perseverance and decision-making. Moral ideas belong to attitude or will. Decisions include concrete decisions and abstract decisions. All normative theories are abstract decisions, including technology, principles, laws, regulations, systems, ethics, customs, etc.

Thought products include knowledge, hypotheses, assumptions, fantasy, myths, fairy tale, lies, arts, religion, prejudice, and so on. Among them, knowledge includes experience, ideas and theories. Experience includes both direct experience and indirect experience. Direct experience includes direct experience of external things and experience of subjective world of one’s own body and mind, in which there are many illusions. Ideas include opinions, prejudices, hypotheses, assumptions, impressions, and half-baked ideas. Theories include scientific theories, philosophical theories, and all kinds of fallacies. Experience, idea and theory describe abstract material, events, laws and commonnesses. Knowledge is the most objective consciousness, all other consciousness are less objective or no objective. Knowledge creates an objective world, which can be called objective world 2, knowledge is the content of objective world 2.