Chapter 333 What the world wants is pragmatism!
The snow is getting tighter and tighter.
Fang Xiaoru's heart was a little relaxed at first, but after hesitating for a while, he hesitated again.
Nowadays, all aspects below are influenced by Confucianism.
Changing course is not feasible.
If they insist on pushing it forward, the turmoil caused will be too great and beyond their control. Moreover, they cannot predict what will happen in the end. The risks are too high and the benefits are very small.
Fang Xiaoru’s heart gradually calmed down.
The passion aroused by Xia Zhibai's heroic words gradually cooled down.
He looked at Xia Zhibai and said: "I dare to ask Scholar Xia, where does Confucianism fit in your heart?"
Xia Zhibai smiled lightly and said: "Now it is Whatever it looks like, it will look like in the future. Academic is academic and secular is secular. There is a clear difference between the two. The secular world has been influenced by Confucianism for thousands of years. How can it be changed overnight? And I have not thought about major changes. "
"Today's Confucianism has long been secularized."
"It has long been accepted by people all over the world."
"To act rashly will only cause panic in the world. Although I, Xia Zhibai, am bold, But I am not so arrogant as to try to change the world's understanding with my own power. What I want to change is only the academic aspect."
"The development of Confucianism has reached a bottleneck during the Song Dynasty."< br>
“Finally fell into Neo-Confucianism.”
"In my opinion, Song Dynasty's philosophy is to alienate the political and ethical principles of society into natural principles, and then use natural principles to descend into human nature, and to integrate the heart and the natural principles inherent in humans into one as a moral cultivation effort. Its purpose is to People consciously act according to social and political ethics. "
"This kind of Neo-Confucianism mainly emphasizes morality."
"But society cannot only be moral."
"Because. People need to eat, clothe, and travel, and these Neo-Confucianisms cannot solve the problem. What can be solved is actual productivity and production technology. Confucianism cannot give an answer on how to improve productivity and production technology. During the Han Dynasty, there was a severe drought. They even dared not let the people dig wells to draw water, and only dared to offer sacrifices to pray for rain. Now, after thousands of years of development, although this is no longer the case, there are still not many practical methods."
"The establishment of the Ming Dynasty. , to a large extent, stems from natural disasters.”
"As a minister of the Ming Dynasty, preventing natural disasters is destined to be a very important political mission. Relying on Confucian classics and principles obviously cannot solve the problem, so we can only find solutions from other places. I am also a scholar, not so With great magical powers, I can only do my best to provide people with more food in their homes to survive the disaster."
"The other is to develop water conservancy projects."
"The water conservancy project I want to develop is. It is not a local waterway dam, but a large-scale reservoir. To build such a reservoir, it is necessary to mobilize a lot of manpower and invest a lot of resources and financial resources, which are not what the Ming Dynasty currently has. "
“But in my opinion it is necessary.”
“So we can only find another way.”
"By improving production technology, mobilizing manpower to a greater extent, and using fewer human resources to play a greater role, the Ming Dynasty could achieve drought and flood harvests as much as possible and reduce the impact of natural disasters. However, the current Confucian philosophy has seriously failed to keep up. The pace of social development has changed."
"So it must be abandoned."
"In short, "Yushu" still promotes the Confucian spirit, but in When it comes to social practice, we must be open to all sources. Whether it is Confucianism, Mohism, Taoism, or other doctrines, as long as they can be used, they can be used. ”
“Human ethics can be used. Confucianism, practical learning to solve practical problems. ”
"The world needs to be pragmatic!"
Hearing Xia Zhibai's words, Fang Xiaoru's face looked a little unnatural.
Because Xia Zhibai has almost openly ridiculed Confucianism for being "practical", it is not easy for him to refute, because in his opinion, Confucianism is indeed a bit neglectful and lies on the books of saints all day long.
He also understood.
Confucianism is still Confucianism, and most people still focus on Confucianism. But in the study of knowledge, we must gradually abandon the existing Confucianism and change to the "extreme" of other doctrines. To put it bluntly, it is just a layer of Confucianism. Just like the external Confucianism and internal law in the Han Dynasty, Confucianism is just that. layer of skin.
Huang Zhang and others were silent.
Of course they are opposed. Some words may sound nice, but in practice they may not be like that. Once that hole is opened, no one can say what will happen, especially Xia Zhibai has already said it before. Confucianism has criticized many views. Wouldn’t other literati who learned Mohism and Taoism follow the same example?
Can the dominance of Confucianism continue then?
They are doubtful.
But they didn't object.
Now Xia Zhibai is obviously in a daze, and is obviously ready to go all the way to the dark side. Even if they object, they will not get any results, and they will even be fiercely criticized by Xia Zhibai. , they will not bother with this.
Even.
They also wanted to expose what Xia Zhibai said to His Majesty.
After all, His Majesty highly approves of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism.
Xia Zhibai's actions are shaking Zhu Cheng's position in Neo-Confucianism, and are also deliberately creating divisions, causing the originally unified thoughts to become scattered, and even loosening ideological control. How can the emperor tolerate this?
Xia Zhibai has violated a taboo.
Xia Zhibai doesn't care what the bachelor below him thinks.
Emancipating the mind is destined.
If you don’t emancipate your mind and remain stuck in the Confucian circle, you will only lose your ability to innovate more and more.
What's more, Confucianism in the Han and Tang dynasties had widely absorbed the local cultures of Mohism, Taoism, Dharma, Yin and Yang, etc. However, it was only later that foreign Buddhism was added, and eventually the thinking was confused, and then it slowly declined. In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, The Confucian revival started by Han Yu already made a deliberate distinction.
It’s just that Song Confucianism went a step further in theory.
However, unlike the Ming Dynasty, in the Song Dynasty, Neo-Confucianism was not the only one, but also non-Neo-Confucianism, such as Xinxue, Shuxue, Yongjia and Yongkang utilitarian studies, which were all non-Confucianism, such as Lianxue, Guan Xue, Luo Xue, Min Xue, Wu Xue and Lu Xue Xue belong to Neo-Confucianism.
It’s just that after Zhu Yuanzhang came to power, his integration of ideas was too simple and crude.
Directly settled on Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism.
Cheng-Zhu School gradually became a tool for official unification of ideology.
However, Xia Zhibai also discovered that there are still many scholars in various places who are dissatisfied with this phenomenon. The Guanzhong area introduced Zhang Zai of the Song Dynasty. Today, the Guanzhong, Sanyuan, and Hedong studies that are popular in the Guanzhong area still follow the There are obvious differences between Cheng and Zhu Neo-Confucianism.
This is actually the reason why the North cannot pass the exam in the South.
The North does not like Zhu Cheng Neo-Confucianism very much.
It's just that Zhu Yuanzhang was too strong. Relying on imperial examinations and government-run schools, he was constantly compressing and depriving Guan Xue of its living space, intending to unify the entire Ming Dynasty's thinking as Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism.
In Xia Zhibai's view, if this situation is allowed to prevail, it won't be long before the world's literati are all descendants of Zhu Xi's sect.
He doesn’t have that much dislike for Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, but Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism will obviously deteriorate under the influence of politics. Under the influence of politics, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, which was originally full of vitality, will gradually turn into dogma. text.
This is what Xia Zhibai deliberately prevented.
The competitive and dynamic Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism is a qualified ideological science.
Rather than a political dogma text.
Moreover, judging from history, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism still failed to get rid of the trend of combining with Li and Lu, and eventually became completely hypocritical.
It has also changed beyond recognition since then.
(End of this chapter)