Culture of the Strong ––Values Reconstruction By
Historic Ambition (Zhiyuan Shi)
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Contents
Book 1 Introduction
About preexistence and afterworld– Ultimate Values penetrating in all kinds of world views– Ultimate Value is the key to the problem of the hollow ethics since Kant Chapter 1 PSKR– Culture of the strong Part 1
Max Scheler’s “value ethics”– in this “value ethics”, there is no real “values” mentioned– the feature of “real value”– PSKR as the ultimate values Strong at Serenity
The ultimate purpose of all religions is Serenity –Buddhism–Taoism–Hinduism, Yoga– the New Testament- Nietzsche- Dante, Hegel, Marx, completely competitive market, utilitarianism, Martin Heidegger, structuralism, deconstructivism, etc.– Being Serene is one of the poles of being strong.-How to be Serene? Strong at Power
Misunderstandings of “Power”: as abilities, energy, as resource occupation, as physical force function– “Power” as an ultimate value– continue to clarify misunderstandings (Sparta as a misunderstanding, Bushido as a misunderstanding)–“Power” must be proposed as an Ultimate Value definitely and directly– Power in cultures: Nietzsche, Christianity, Chinese culture, Movement of Romanticism, Sa d e , Georges Bataille, Herbert Marcuse, examples of daily life– How to be Powerful? Strong at Knowledge
The importance of knowledge and education (education– to copy and spread knowledge): Confucianism, Esoteric Buddhism, Asian philosophies and salvation theories, Western reasoning, science, Neural-Linguistic Programming, concepts about Knowledge, narrow sense and broad sense of Knowledge– Knowledge is Belief-Science Belief-Science Part 1
Significances of Belief-Science– What’s belief? – Belief is trust in proposition– Belief is the core of culture– Why is a belief held? What can belief act on ：On body– On mind–Aesthetics as belief– On material– Why belief is called science? – Ultimately, there is no truth but belief: “Is there God?”– 3 kinds of failures of verifiability– Common sense, Kant, agnosticism cannot be overcome– so cannot phenomenology– Scheler’s theology according to phenomenology– Heidegger– Hermeneutics– each of them proposed a kind of religion rather than a kind of philosophy–
truth should be replaced by “ Besf ” or “ Beatfkn” to reduce the incidence rate of
confusion and misleading saying– metaphysics is for establishing beliefs– truth was regarded as the bridge from reality to belief, but this medium is not necessary– the 3 senses of the transition from “truth world” into “belief world” Creating beliefs, constructing cultures– What is belief made up of? – Proposition– The key of proposition– association – Compose philosophies for meaningful life– On body– On Mind– Mental world hard principle– Believing is the breath of life from God – Reasoning is only one of the methods to promote believing– Associated emotions– Language as the home of being– the key:
association– Definition is the reverse application of proposition– Believing trials– Random associating-belief-culture– On Material– How come a proposition is believed? – Religious elements– Examples: Christianity– Nietzsche– Buddhism– Money worship– Capitalism– other mass beliefs in history– examples of daily life Standards of belief– Application of Belief-Science Strong at Reality Belief-Science Part 2
Reality as the boundary of the effectiveness of belief– a certain time-space– Reality is more like a cake than an unyielding stone Two kinds of meanings of Reality as Value
Dependence. All existences– Instrumentality as the feature of R1– R1 is untiringly pursued– compromise– causes: cover– assumption that people are the weak– taking the necessary condition as the sufficient condition– Material for mind to operate with–feature of R2: Enrichment of Mind– appropriateness of material– Severe circumstance and complete Serenity– modern people are in short of R2– homogeneity– right of Enrichment of Mind– welcome troubles and trouble-makers– Countercurrent of etiquettes–of law and morality–of economics–of simplicity–of habitude Combinations of PSKR
Why PSKR? Why not more or less Ultimate Values? – Proof 1: Feelings– Proof 2: Qualities inside– Proof 3: Needs– Proof 4: Ways to excellent spiritual states– Proof 5: Stature or Personality– Proof 6: Meanings in the world are combinations of PSKR: What is Fish? Eating? Specialty? Hammer? Money? Ease? Tool? Purpose? Corruption? Escape? Preservation? Facing up? Shame and shyness? Indifference? Loveliness? Bustle? The giant wave in discotheque? Raising pet dog or pet horse? Loneliness? Sanguineness? Dexterity? Maturity? Beauty of life? Beauty? LSD? Gambling? Character? Sincerity? Goodness? Intelligence? Humor? Happiness, anger, sadness, fear, loneliness, fidget and depression? Will to power? Using head? Heart? The value of computer games? Arts? The significance of intentionality proposed in phenomenology? God? Supremacy? Faith? Concept? Abstracting? Summarizing? Nobleness? Existentialism? Holiness? Believing Bliss? What is “what is?”? Other “what is” Synthetic values and Ultimate Values Inter-relations of PSKR
11 interrelations of PSKR: PS, PK, PR, SK, SR, KR, PSK, PSR, SKR (omitted), PKR (omitted), PSKR (omitted). The basic significances of proposing PSKR Chapter 2 Culture of the weak
What’s culture? – What are the weak?–What is culture of the weak? 1. The specific forms of culture of the weak– the actualities of the world spirits Easism
Concept–phenomena–problems Vanitism
Concept–phenomena–problems Hypocrisism
Phenomena–concept–problems 2. Hazards that culture of the weak does
Culture of the weak is the main origin of all kinds of evil deeds and evil minds– Culture of the weak leads to degeneration of people– Culture of the weak is the primary cause of all kinds of sufferings: Sufferings in body – Sufferings in spirit – Two kinds of Sufferings in spirit Imbedded Chapter 3 Belief-Science Part 3– World Significance Function 1. Concept
Pool of happiness– assignment of happiness or suffering– formula– 2 exceptions: Double-Dams 2. Dialectics of feeling and Life-Ration
F＝X*Y for ∑|F| Shift back to Chapter 2
Culture of the weak deprives the world of profoundness and beauty, so that philistinism prevails– There is no high status of authenticity, truth, sincerity, and principle in culture of the weak PSKR analysis of values in culture of the weak 3. Culture of the weak: inadaptable to modern society The main differences between classical society and modern society
Culture of the weak is not fit to the material prosperity with modernization– not suited to the loose spiritual environment with modernization– cannot meet the moral demands under modernization: Good, as a virtue, is altruism, is to love beyond oneself– And another key point of good is: In what? Chapter 4 Culture of the strong Part 2 1. Tech-M Concept
Tech-M as the technique of changing suffering into happiness– real suffering and nominal suffering– 3 kinds of ways of changing ideas– Tech-M as a kind of application of Belief-Science: real heroism or romanticism– spirit of a camel– Buddhist tathagata-garbha thought– notes from the underground – thoughts of hell – the gay science
Boundary of Tech-M Significances of Tech-M
Tech-M could give Power by associating directly; the most powerful insurance for Power– In favor of Knowledge– In favor of Enrichment of Mind– In favor of Serenity– Balance the giving and taking in the world– Passion could be released into the whole society– Loftiness could be actualized– In favor of highly freedom– In favor of sincerity– In favor of beauty– Uniting process and result, short-term and long-term– Beneficial for R1 construction Q&A
Q1: Who should be M and who should be S? – Q2: How about the cheating? – Q3: How if there is heaven or hell, or samsara? – Q4: Is M spiritual victory? – Q5: Would people become numb? Status of Tech-M and Belief-Science 2. Definition of culture of the strong 3. Integrated Comparisons between culture of the weak and culture of the strong
The assumptions of the two main cultures– Features of the strong and those of the weak– The inter-relationships between the features– The assumption of morality of culture of the weak– The
assumption of morality of culture of the strong– Moral rank 4. Specific forms of culture of the strong 5. Significances of culture of the strong
Fundamental approach to eliminate all kinds of evil deeds and evil minds– Keeping people great, lofty and really able to love– The basic guarantee for happiness– The strong is the convert to Life-Ration– Arts and beauty are compatible with culture of the strong– Culture of the strong is the base of sincerity and principle– Culture of the strong makes metaphysics no more nihilism and heroism no more a paradox 6. Modernization and Culture of the strong 7. Culture of the strong and classical life
Book 2 Chapter 5 Culture of the strong vista 1. Humanity-small and Humanity-Big
Failure of Utopian system, religion or morality– Aipotu– Different social results from different humanity: Mode of thinking and behaving– Pattern of affection– Morality– Social subjects– Qualities of spirit– Story of Kun-Peng. 2. World of Humanity-Big, world of the strong Chapter 6 Realizing culture of the strong
Culture of the strong is not culture of the jungle– Being strong or being weak is not a status, but a spiritual stature– People should live as the strong, the strong at heart, only by which means could the world actualize itself 1. A brief history of humanity– greatnesses and failures: Yellow emperor- Thales- Lao Tzu-
Confucius- Plato- St. Augustine- Renaissance- Newton –slave owner- a mechanic-human geneHabermas Based on the 2 presuppositions: people are the weak and economy is scarce Most systems in modern time
Enlightenment– Autonomy of civil society– Lévi-Strauss– Le Bon– Post world war 2 USA– Europe Since 1945 – Romantic Movement– Nietzschean philosophy: Nietzsche didn’t propose an Ultimate Value system – No Tech-M– Other aftereffects of the above two problems: Overman is indefinable– Overmen are only the strong with discount.: overman is limited by reality1; emptiness.; there could be only few overmen in the world – Significances of Nietzsche Fascism– The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution– Counter-culture movement Both radicalism and conservatism reinforce humanity-small; what they can change is only the surface of the world 2. Realizing culture of the strong BY INDIVIDUAL
Goals– Minimize the using of interest or force The main contents of the actualization of the-strong-self-actualization of individuals
Examples of methods Other methods
Imbedded Chapter 7 Culture of “respect” Functions of Respect and dignity Formula of respect in culture of the weak– Mutations Formula of respect in culture of the strong and its significances Return to Chapter 6 3. Realizing culture of the strong BY ORGANIZATION What Jobs organizations can do? The typical example of organization– state
The basic functions of a state: to construct PSKR within Double-Dams–Two basic ways: infeasible or feasible– Detailed functions of a state– Peace– Development– How the dominance of easism and vanitism was formed? – To dispose economy polarism– The process of economic construction itself– More selling of points commodities– Other economic significances of the transitions of the functions– Other social significances of the transitions of the functions – The most important transition of state development function: to transfer the focus from economy to culture: Ministries of a state– Goals and activities of ministry of propaganda: Changing public opinions is the key job; Creation and works– Goals and activities of minist ry of education– Laws– Other systems (including democracy)– New routines that benefit PSKR should be invented Imbedded Chapter 8 the Rating of world of the strong Grade 1: Mind– Grade 2: Action– Grade 3: Community– One key point in the stages of the grade 2 and the grade 3– Grade 4: Prosperity– Grade 5: Damless Craziness Back to Chapter 6 Adventure paradise – war system– Different regions with different cultural foci– Military affairs–
Politics Other organizations Chapter 9 Value Microscope Epilogue
