Every time I finish reading a book, I have to turn over a few books before I start to devote myself to the next book that I can finish at one go. Until I find someone who seems to want to keep crossing the line and can't put it down, I forget to turn over the next one, that's all. Hu Shi's book "What's the Meaning of Life" was directly selected because of the opening paragraph: "Life is meaningless. If you can give it any meaning, it has any meaning. Instead of thinking hard about the meaning of life all day, it is better to try to do something meaningful in this life. " What attracts me is "what is the meaning of life", which is something that my boss will mention from time to time recently. I will give him a similar answer, but summarizing the answer in such a concise language will make people hear it at once, which is the height I will pursue in my life but may never reach.

Hu Shi interprets life from a philosophical perspective. There are too many things missing in his knowledge system, and philosophy is definitely the biggest blank. Of course, claiming to be a knowledge system is a bit thick-skinned. It should be said that it is a piece of learning.

He spent a long article introducing Ivan. Turgenev said that he was a narrator of human nature and a descriptor of the times. He expressed his dualistic view of human nature in Poems, Paintings and Sounds Like Nature, and thought that this dualism was the fundamental law of a person's life. His dualism is to divide people into egoists and self-victims. With philosophical vision and artistic means, he faithfully and delicately wrote the traces of contemporary ideological changes and the course of social evolution. Next, I'm going to find Turgenev's book to read.

Then there are several articles about Hu Shi's Introduction to Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Engineers, all of which are relatively new philosophical viewpoints. "Scientific outlook on life" has two meanings: one is to take science as the basis of outlook on life, and the other is to formulate our attitude and method of life with scientific attitude, spirit and method. He also said that China had embarked on the path of naturalistic philosophy 2,500 years ago. Like Lao Zi, Zhuangzi and later Huai Nan Zi, they all represent naturalism. This naturalistic philosophy developed too early, while natural science and industry developed too late. This is a big shortcoming in the history of China's thought.

"So the meaning of life depends on your own work; You want it to be round, square and meaningful; Because there is no end to reason, no end to interest and no end to progress.

The truth is infinite, and so is the universe! "

The last few books in this book have a strong background at that time, so they are not easy to read.