Why did all the descendants of the Rothschild family study philosophy?

Everyone knows the Rothschild family mentioned in the currency war. The Rothschild family claims to be the most mysterious financial family in the world, which has been passed down for more than 25 years and is the driving force behind the world finance. During his visit to China, jacob rothschild said, "The best students in China study finance, while my grandchildren choose philosophy. I think philosophy can make people live more clearly. "

Reform and opening-up have led China into an era of rapid economic development and profound changes have taken place in its social structure, but people seem to pay less attention to philosophy. During my time as a teacher, some students often ask: What's the use of learning philosophy?

The greatest use of philosophy is that "useless use is regarded as great use". The reason why people surpass animals is that people have thoughts, and philosophy is to tell everyone how to think. In this sense, Socrates said that "a life without reflection is not worth living". He thought that if you don't think about life, you will lose the meaning of living in a human way.

what is philosophy? It's really hard to answer. When I first learned philosophy, I knew what philosophy was. The more I learned, the less I knew what philosophy was.

Aristotle said: Philosophy originated from the sense of surprise to the outside world. In this sense, I think children have the most philosophical temperament. Three-and four-year-old children are interested in everything and have a strong thirst for knowledge, which shows their desire to learn and creativity, but their understanding is not enough. However, with the growth of age and the improvement of understanding, we often get used to many things, lose our sense of surprise, lose our awareness and sensitivity to problems, and can't find and study problems.

Philosophy is to keep people childlike, curiosity and creativity in childhood. In this sense, I think philosophy is a "troublemaker", that is, it always finds problems where others can't see them.

for example, "do external things exist?" In the eyes of ordinary people, do you still need to ask? Doesn't exist. Where are you? But this is really a philosophical question. That's what Zhuang Zhoumeng Butterfly said.

Bekele said that "being is being perceived", which we call idealistic. However, Bekele inspired Einstein. Einstein said that it was only through Bekele that I knew that the existing situation was related to the reference object of observing things. For another example, A=A and A=B, in what sense are these two propositions equal? In what sense are these two equal signs equal? Philosophy analyzes these problems. Is it symbolic equality or referential equality? In addition, is the size of a thing the nature of the thing itself? This is also a very difficult problem.

the nature of everything is determined in the relationship, not inherent. The world is the sum of facts, not the sum of things. Assuming that everyone is a thing, the world is not the sum of all of us, but the fact that the relationship between each of us has become. The world has changed, and after all kinds of things happen, there are all kinds of relationships between people. "A child is not a fish, knowing the joy of fish? If the child is not me, I know that I don't know the joy of fish? " Put forward an important philosophical problem "intersubjectivity" and "the other".

When we speak at ordinary times, we seldom reflect on the question: Is the meaning of each word fixed? The meaning of language is not fixed. A word can't be understood without a certain environment, but only in a certain context, and this context is in use. The meaning of language is not in it but in front of it.

Some existing definitions of philosophy are roughly as follows:

First, philosophy is a summary of natural science and social science, and I think in certain situations, this definition regards functional concept as essential concept;

Secondly, philosophy is the most general knowledge in the objective world and human society. I think in a certain sense, because of learning philosophy, there is no formula to set, and you have to rethink when you encounter any specific problems;

Thirdly, philosophy is the love of wisdom. The word "Sofia" in philosophy is a combination of "love" and "wisdom" in Greek. I think it also needs to be considered, because the knowledge form at that time was philosophy, and the love of wisdom was the characteristic of all knowledge, not unique to philosophy.

fourth, I don't think it is appropriate to study "what" in other sciences and "why" in philosophy. Other disciplines have defined their own research objects and found their own research methods, which are mature and systematic. On the contrary, philosophy should be revolutionary and critical, and it is a weapon to understand and transform the world.