Running saint Kim and Wei Zisheng

If Socrates meets Confucius, they will become bosom friends! Because Socrates is the only philosopher and saint in western culture who calls people to pay attention to inner spiritual cultivation, the only philosopher in the west who is more like an oriental saint, and an exception in western culture! Ordinary people's understanding of Socrates is wrong!

Why Socrates is an exception in western culture, because all western cultures pay attention to things outside the mind, and they extremely ignore the internal development of human mind and the promotion of human nature, or even ignore this. Only Socrates appeals to people to pay attention to inner perfection, so he is the only exception. And this aspect is exactly what the eastern culture pays attention to. Therefore, when Socrates met Confucius, he must have met the feeling of a bosom friend, instead of criticizing Confucius as most people imagined (I have seen this hypothetical article on the Internet).

In fact, western philosophy has nothing to do with the inner cultivation of human mind, but has actually become a knowledge system outside the mind, which is completely different from the eastern culture and philosophy represented by Confucianism, Taoism and Indian Buddhism in China, and advocates the perfection of human inner mind. Even if Christianity was later introduced to the west, it was mainly saved by God's external force, not by self-awareness and spiritual promotion. Therefore, the whole western academic system is the product of making a fuss about the outside of the mind, and western culture has completely given up the development of the inside of the mind (especially natural science)! Oriental culture is just the opposite! This is the most basic difference between eastern and western cultures!

When people understand Socrates, they will find that Socrates is indeed an exception in the western philosophical tradition of defining love and drawing conclusions. He never defines himself and draws conclusions, but always refutes others, because he wants to liberate ordinary westerners from the shackles of external names such as definitions and concepts and really pay attention to the depths of human hearts. Therefore, Socrates is different. He wants to save the paranoia of westerners, but the general trend of western culture is not something he can resist and save alone, so he can only die-to be precise, be erased. He was obliterated by public opinion, and democracy is also the product of western culture. Public opinion can't hold a sage, because the contrast between heart and heart is too great, so it's best to be out of sight and out of mind, so he has been erased!

By the way, the western political system, from ancient times to the present, just like the overall characteristics of western culture, only pays attention to the external institutional forms, and the internal moral politics is not what they pay attention to. However, Socrates put forward "the rule of philosophical king" at that time, which was the same as the "inner sage and outer king" advocated by Confucianism in China, and Indian Buddhism also had a similar proposition, and put forward "turning the holy king".