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First, judge who is better, the lion or the tiger, from The Analects.
Second, Confucius was not an original thinker.
Third, EQ is a result of IQ.
First, judge who is better, the lion or the tiger, from The Analects.
Learning is a matter of making friends.
When we read the Analects of Confucius today, it is easy to think that three sentences are talking about three things respectively. "When learning is not as good as when" refers to the way of learning; "It's a pleasure to have friends coming from afar", which means the way to make friends; "People who don't know and don't care are not gentlemen", which means the way of self-cultivation. However, in a very representative understanding of the ancients, these three sentences are actually saying one thing: "This chapter exhorts people to be human" (Notes on The Analects of Confucius), that is to say, these three sentences are talking about the way of reading, and the purpose of reading is to be a gentleman.
The most important information revealed to us here is that learning is a matter of making friends. There is a cloud in Zhouyi: "Li Ze, yes, a gentleman and a friend teach." The change of divination is two connected Shui Ze. The ancients took the image as the righteousness, and thought it symbolized that a gentleman made friends and made academic progress.
In fact, this is not the privilege or trait of a gentleman, but the great survival advantage of a Zhong Hequn animal and a gregarious person over a lone ranger in our nature. Learning must have group and public attributes. Although there is a saying in our proverb that "tiger and leopard are always attributes." Although there is a saying in our proverb that tigers and leopards always live alone, pigs and sheep always live in groups, and we despise the weak who care too much about whether they are gregarious enough, but we must think that lions live in groups, and it is this nature of Zhong Hequn that makes lions have the competitiveness that tigers and leopards do not have.
In February 20 16, Scientific American published an article "Smart Big Cats" by Jason G. Goldman, which may put an end to the long and famous heated debate between "Lion Bar" and "Tiger Bar" in Baidu Post Bar. This paper introduces a mechanism designed by zoologists to test the cognitive ability of lions: put beef in a wooden box. If the lion wants to eat beef, he must pull a rope to open the spring bolt on the wooden box. As a result, among 12 lions, 1 1 successfully ate beef, of which 7 independently solved the problem, and the other 4 finally won by observing the successful experience of their companions, which is rare even among primates. In the next test, the magnificent lion show dwarfed their two feline relatives, the tiger and the leopard.
-Xiong Yi, "9.7 | The first egg is coming: Who is better, the lion or the tiger"
Second, Confucius was not an original thinker.
In the ancient world, the status of thinkers was not very high, and they could only be regarded as "children" at most. Their works can only be regarded as "children's books" in the book classification, which means "a teacher's private works". Han Feizi is a very original thinker, and this book of Han Feizi belongs to the sub-book. In the Confucian system, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius originally belonged to the sub-books. Among the four sorts of books, Jing, Shi, Zi and Ji, Jing is the highest.
Therefore, in Confucian classics, the status of "Five Classics" is the highest. Even if the Analects of Confucius and Mencius were later upgraded to classics, their status was not as good as the Five Classics. This is because the Five Classics is not a private work, but a study of Wang Guan in the Zhou Dynasty, which is an official academic work. In the eyes of the ancients, Confucius was the most important inheritor of Wang Guan studies, not an original thinker. The same is true of Confucius' positioning of himself.
Therefore, Confucius' teaching is about Zhou Li in a broad sense, that is, "Five Classics", archery, driving, rituals and music ceremonies. That is, the laws and regulations, political skills and codes of conduct of the aristocratic society in the Zhou Dynasty. Confucius devoted his life to "restoring ceremony", that is, restoring the ceremony and music system in the early Zhou Dynasty. These system legends were formulated by the Duke of Zhou, who was Confucius' number one idol.
The spiritual core of "ceremony" is "benevolence". "Benevolent people love each other", but this "love" is not universal love in today's sense, but the so-called "equal love", that is, the people who love the closest, the farther the blood relationship, the shallower the love. You can't love your second aunt more than your own mother, nor can you love strangers more than your second aunt. In the relationship between closeness and distance, there are rules about how much love you should give to everyone. Only in this way can we be close to each other, respect the old and love the young, and each can be in its proper place and orderly. This kind of society is the stable society respected by Confucianism.
Confucius does not belong to a hundred schools.
Confucius was neither an original thinker nor a moral education teacher. If Confucius only gives students ideological and moral lessons, one day is enough to complete all the contents.
In common misunderstandings, people always regard Confucius as a member of a hundred schools. A hundred schools of thought contend mainly in the Mencius era. As one of the hundred schools, Mencius traveled around the world, selling his own theory to the monarch, and often arguing with other schools. But Confucius's "traveling around the world" is different from Mencius's. He won't use a unique theory to lobby others. Mencius was indeed a thinker, so the book Mencius was upgraded to a classic much later than The Analects, and it was the latest one among the Thirteen Classics.
The dedication and ambition of Confucius' life is to revive the gift of Zhou, not to preach the theory of "benevolence".
When we read The Analects of Confucius, "benevolence" does appear frequently, but when we read The Book of Rites, we will find that Confucius has a lot to say about etiquette, which is the focus of Confucius' teaching.
It is not difficult to understand why "benevolence" finally surpassed "ceremony". Because the society has become bigger, the patriarchal feudal system has collapsed, which means that the soil for Zhou Li's survival no longer exists. Even if people really want to govern the country with Confucianism after Confucianism is the only one, theory and reality really can't match. It is a historical necessity to "learn from foreigners to control foreigners", which I have repeatedly said in the past few weeks. Therefore, the pragmatic "courtesy" will be transformed repeatedly in the embarrassing situation, and the "benevolence" of retreat will gradually become popular.
-Xiong Yi "9.7 | Egg 2: Is Confucius a great thinker? On the relationship between "benevolence" and "courtesy"
Although Confucius didn't intend to create the original idea with "benevolence" as the core, his later disciples developed the Confucian ideological system that influenced China for thousands of years on the basis of ancient knowledge with "ritual" as the core, which was also an unintentional insertion.
Third, EQ is a result of IQ.
Use IQ persistently in the field of mathematics and you will become a mathematician. Use IQ persistently in the field of physics, and you will become a physicist; If you use IQ persistently in dealing with people and things, you will have the so-called "emotional intelligence" and become an emotional expert.
EQ and IQ are not antagonistic. On the contrary, EQ is a result of IQ. But at the same time, it is persistent "training" that determines this "result". In other words: IQ x emotional training = EQ.
What is empathy?
Remember when we talked about "knowing yourself" in lesson 137, we talked about "empathetic listening"? This "empathy" is the so-called "empathy". Can we look at the problem from the perspective of others?
Also known as "empathy" and "* * * affection". For example, "everyone has compassion", which means that Mencius believes that empathy is innate. If you see a child about to fall into the well, you can't sit idly by and be selfish! You didn't save the child for anything in return, and you weren't afraid that someone would give you trouble. This is purely from your heart.
Now scientists know that empathy comes from "mirror neurons" in the human brain. Because of the existence of mirror neurons, we watch others suffer and feel that we are suffering, which is why we are likely to cry when watching TV dramas, which is natural. Mencius discovered this truth without a functional magnetic resonance scanner.
—— Wan Weigang's "Daily Class 053 | Science Edition" has no "Four: Wonderful Use (End)"
-Liu Run's "17 1 empathy, the concentric method of a thousand energies".
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