A About the general law of the development of human understanding

1. The general law of the development of human understanding:

Mao Zedong: Practice, understand, practice again, understand again, This form repeats itself endlessly, and the content of each cycle of practice and understanding reaches a relatively higher level.

Human beings understand the objective world through repeated practice and understanding, that is, practice-understanding-practice-understanding. This is a process of continuous practice and new understanding guiding practice. The law is to continuously practice and develop understanding, deepen understanding, and guide practice.

2. The significance of grasping the general law of cognitive development

(1) The dialectical movement of practice, understanding, re-practice, and re-understanding fully embodies the relationship between subjectivity and objectivity, understanding and practice. The specific historical unity provides an epistemological basis for preventing and overcoming various "left" and right erroneous tendencies.

The task of understanding is to find the specific historical unity of the two.

Concrete unity: subjective understanding must be consistent with the specific objective reality under a certain time, place, and condition;

Historical unity: subjective understanding must be consistent with the constantly developing and changing objective reality Adapt to reality.

Subjectivism in the form of empiricism, dogmatism, bookism, and two "whatevers" must be criticized on the basis of the combination of theory and practice.

The fundamental characteristics of subjectivism: the separation of subjectivity and objectivity, and the separation of theory and practice. This is the epistemological root of various "left" and right errors in practical work. The former is manifested in the development stage of subjective understanding surpassing objective practice, while the latter is manifested in subjective understanding lagging behind objective practice.

(2) Understanding the general laws of the movement requires adhering to the party’s ideological line, emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, and advancing with the times.

Emancipating the mind: It refers to liberating ideological understanding from the constraints of those outdated concepts, practices and systems, liberating from the erroneous and dogmatic understanding of Marxism, liberating from subjectivism and Liberated from the shackles of metaphysics.

Seeking truth from facts: It means starting from reality and achieving the specific historical unity of subjectivity and objectivity, understanding and practice;

Keeping pace with the times: It means that understanding and theory should keep pace with the times. The development and innovation of objective practice and continuous development and innovation.

(3) This law requires adhering to the party’s mass line. Understanding the general laws of development is the philosophical foundation of our party's mass line. The mass line is the specific application of dialectical materialist epistemology in the practical work of the party.

The mass line is our party’s method of understanding, leadership and work. The people are both the subject of practice and the subject of understanding. From practice to understanding is consistent with "coming from the masses"; from understanding to practice is consistent with "going to the masses".