Philosophical concept of belief
intellectual product
Faith is the subjective product of the mind, and religion or political parties play a catalytic role. Without religion and political parties, people can have faith.
Belief is an individual's conscious behavior, and it is difficult for the collective belief to last long. The belief established by collective belief will disappear with the disintegration of a certain religion, political party and organization. The content of faith is varied and strange. Belief in the unity of man and nature, belief in God, belief in Buddhism, belief in science, obsession and worship of rights, status, money, reputation and beauty. It is also a belief. "Eating, drinking and whoring for a day" and "muddling along" are also beliefs.
Faith is a kind of soul-like love and care, and it is an emotion of human beings. Faith is often divorced from reality, so god, deceased relatives, or teams, countries, religions, etc. Dominated by the human soul It can be seen that the country and religion are a culture developed by people's beliefs? National culture and religious culture; The most fundamental belief is a kind of love between people of the same kind based on themselves, and it is an infinite desire inspired by human emotions and brains.
Faith and belief are different. Faith is what you believe in, and faith is the imprint of people's souls. Have great faith and respect for a certain idea, doctrine, religion, someone or something, and use it as a guide or example for your actions. However, faith is rarely given to people. Religion is not the object of belief, but the manifestation of belief, and cannot be regarded as the object of belief.
Philosophical significance
Faith is where you trust.
Unlike trust: faith is also your value.
Faith is some long-term and basic beliefs that people hold about life that must be defended. No matter how advanced technology is, the limitations of human beings will not change. Although we know much more than people before 2000, with the increase of knowledge, our understanding of some problems has improved, but some new puzzles will appear again. On some issues, such as the fear of death, we have made little progress. Compared with their ancestors, the gap between human desire and unknown, finite and infinite may not be as narrow as they thought. In this gap, there are both hope and fear, which leaves a place for faith.
So faith is different from what most people say. Faith answers the deepest daily questions in life. The object of belief is also the object of worship. Everything in the field of human experience is limited and its value is limited. These things with limited value can hardly be regarded as objects of faith. Faith transcends all limitations, and only by transcending the infinity of reality can it truly become the hope to make up for human limitations. The truth of "God" is a transcendental truth that human beings have discovered, and the belief in "God" is unmatched by any empirical proposition.
Theological belief view
Yin Qian, a famous literary critic: "Don't believe it? Gods The existence of, don't believe in karma, so that human beings become fearless and shameless. Usually we associate these mysterious spiritual lives with religions and beliefs? Gods It's equivalent to believing in religion, but it's a big fallacy that everyone can believe independently? God? , regardless of this? God? What's your name? As long as it is not a person, as long as it is always in your heart, you don't even have to go to church or temple, no matter where you are. God? Being with you depends on a person's deep consciousness, which is of course the highest realm of faith. Religion is not superstition, nor is it an attempt to explore the mysteries of spiritual life, but tells us the experiences of some sages who taught people to live in the world and their many efforts to this end.
Theologians' research on religion holds that if human beings are created by "God", everyone has his own divinity, which is universal. In order to show this divinity, people must change their own nature to realize it? For example, some Taoist priests who are isolated from the world, monks who are far away from the secular world, monks who are diligent in pursuing truth, and so on. Only they are more accessible? Gods , easier to get along with? Gods Communication opportunities, it always believes that human beings have the desire to survive, although human beings will die, but the soul will not perish, a person's soul is the essence of human life, only after experiencing strict? Liquidation? After the process, again? Gods Under your guidance, you will be reborn.
This is not only the view of Buddhism, but also the view of Taoism and folk religion in China. Abroad, this statement also appears in the gospels, Plato's philosophy and various mysterious religions in Greece. Although everyone has obvious differences in spirit and body, interest and talent, temperament and physique, human beings are the same in the deepest spiritual level of human spirit. Why Buddhism, _ _ _ _, Islam, Judaism, etc. Can transcend centuries and continue to this day, theologians believe that what these religions preach is a truth, which is the language of God and an eternal and fundamental wisdom.
Unfortunately, this kind of wisdom was blinded and distorted by people with ulterior motives in the course of history, and even used to achieve their own various purposes, so that the original pure religion became mixed and chaotic, which also led to the collapse of many people's original firm beliefs. People began to doubt religious beliefs and gradually changed from conscious beliefs to passive traditional beliefs.
At present, returning to this eternal and fundamental wisdom is the right way. About what I proposed? Religious belief? You can believe it or not. In short, it is better to believe that it exists than not to exist. I mean, what if this "religious belief" can make a great contribution to solving people's problems? Religious belief? Becoming the foundation of a good order in the human world should be the most universal and inner existence of us human beings and become the holy water to wash the world. The barriers that separate people will collapse, people will be afraid, they will be afraid, and they will understand love and hate good and evil. Is that the only way? Gods Will it appear in front of mankind again and the human world will gradually recover? Gods Communication, even in the same place, will people have and worship their true inner sanctuary? Gods . "(The True Sutra of the Mind, by Yin Qian, Huangshan Bookstore)
The power of faith
1, conquer the fear of death
Indeed, compared with other creatures, the nobility of human beings lies in their thinking ability. Thought is noble and painful. When human beings realize that death is their destiny and inevitable, pain appears. What is death? Where do people go after death? Is that place gloomy or fragrant? These problems have become problems that human beings need to think about often when facing death. At that time, reality could not provide a clear answer, so faith came into being.
The "reincarnation of life and death" in the illusory elements of religious belief, "death redemption" and "physical decay and spiritual immortality" in philosophical concepts all provide different people with spiritual strength to face and conquer death.
2. Seek the origin of the world
The consciousness and ideological ability possessed by human beings make questioning the most common spiritual appeal of human beings. Where do we come from? What did the world look like at first? These problems have become eternal puzzles for human beings.
Therefore, the pursuit of the truth of the world and the search for the origin of the world are regarded as an eternal mission by human beings. This spirit of questioning has become the root cause of faith. Driven by this spirit of questioning, some people choose a scientific and rational way to solve the mystery of the world, while others explain the problem from the perspective of spiritual sensibility, forming various beliefs. Evolution is a scientific belief; "God" creationism is a religious belief. There are many beliefs like this, and the purpose of sharing them is to give an answer to human doubts. What answer you choose is actually what faith you choose.
3, reflect on the meaning of existence
Since its birth, human beings have been faced with the dual regulation of biology and spirituality. On the one hand, people have basic physiological needs like other animals; On the other hand, human beings have a spiritual pursuit of value. The direct embodiment of this value pursuit, human beings often ask themselves: "What am I living for?" That is, what we often say is the goal and meaning of life.
Other animals can live their animal lives in peace: reproduction, survival and death, but once human beings lose their spiritual support, the physical survival will become painful and unsustainable. So suicide is almost unimaginable in other animals, but it has become a way for human beings to choose death.
This kind of thinking about the meaning of life makes faith happen. No matter what the answer is, this demand of human beings is inevitable.
4. Solve the uncertainty
One's life is full of variables. On the one hand, we cannot predict the future. On the other hand, we must face unexpected things. As the saying goes, "there are unexpected events in the sky, and people are doomed." Uncertainty is almost inseparable from life. Why do some people have well-off families, while others live on the streets? Why do some people have smooth sailing and some people have a lot of fate? Why do some people survive the same disaster, while others are miserable? There are so many events about life that it seems difficult to find a reasonable explanation. Once this uncertainty occurs, human beings need a reasonable explanation, which can give people strength to face and accept, but rationality is not necessarily the truth, and scientific practice is the only criterion to test the truth.
Thus, various beliefs have emerged to explain the uncertainty: ancient mythology holds that people's fate is in the hands of God, Buddhism advocates "karma", and _ _ _ advocates "the concept of original sin"?
5. Establish value goals
The value of human consciousness lies in clearly recognizing its own defects. Humans often feel small in front of the mysterious universe, and even feel helpless in the conflict between self-desire and rationality. Limitations and shortcomings make human beings doubt and confuse themselves. How to transcend the finite and move towards eternity; How to make up for defects and achieve perfection has become another spiritual need of human beings.
Therefore, human beings need faith to establish value goals for themselves: to create a perfect hero or to create a beautiful "afterlife". In this way, human beings can strengthen their faith in life and establish the direction of progress.
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