An essay on "the wisdom of life"

What is the wisdom of life?

Once, a Buddhist student asked his teacher, "Master, what is wisdom?" The master replied: "wisdom is: if you are hungry, eat;" Sleepy, sleep. "Of course, this is just a joke. As a contemporary teenager, it is certainly impossible to make such a joke.

So, what is wisdom? Wisdom is the ability to distinguish, judge, invent and create. All the useful and valuable creations we can see in real life can be said to be the crystallization of human wisdom. It is precisely because human beings constantly turn wisdom into tools that they can use, making life richer and more convenient. Society is constantly developing, and wisdom needs to be accumulated and updated. Philosophy provides a convenient way for this process.

Philosophy defines wisdom as two aspects. One is subjective ability. The subjective ability to understand and transform the world is related to the intellectual factors of the subject. It is often said that students should be given "fish" as well as "fish". What this means here is the need to turn wisdom into methods. For students, the purpose of learning is actually to learn a method. Mastering this method, students will unconsciously learn something useful even outside the classroom. Second, subjective virtue. The wisdom of human beings also lies in "seeking for the poor". Feng Qi put forward this point to explain the requirements of human thinking nature, and the spiritual connection between generations as the value of life and the ultimate concern is also wisdom, that is, virtue. The wisdom here is advanced wisdom, that is, "true wisdom". Although these two kinds of wisdom have different levels, they cannot be separated. If instrumental rationality embodies ability, that is, "common wisdom", then value rationality is "true wisdom". To understand "turning knowledge into wisdom" in the modern sense is to turn knowledge into ability and virtue, and strive to realize the unity of instrumental rationality and value rationality and the sublimation from the former to the latter.

Marxist philosophy is the most intelligent theory in human history, because it not only provides people with instrumental rationality and value rationality, but also integrates them and promotes the continuous transformation from instrumental rationality to value rationality. The wisdom of Marxist philosophy is contained in the theme and realization of Marxist philosophy.

Wisdom will eventually be applied to practice, if not directly or indirectly. Then, the accuracy of this "wisdom" will be questioned. After all, practice is the only criterion for testing truth. In Marxist philosophy, truth is a correct reflection of objective things and their laws by cognitive limbs, and it can also be said that people have a correct understanding of objective things and their laws. Wisdom and truth are not the same. The essence of truth is that subjectivity conforms to objectivity, not vice versa. The objectivity of truth content determines that any truth must be objective. Although truth is expressed in subjective form, the essential requirement of truth is to exclude any subjective form that does not conform to its objective content, thus ensuring the objectivity of truth. Practice is the only criterion to test whether a command is truth, and the objective materiality of practice also determines that the truth it tests must be objective. Although the test of practice is dialectical, the objective materiality and direct reality of practical activities, especially the results of practice, ensure the objectivity of any truth that has been tested and confirmed by practice. The mistake of all idealism on the question of truth lies in denying the objectivity of truth. In the real social production and life, there are countless proved to be the crystallization of human wisdom. Practice is an objective activity of human beings. When people encounter certain situations in the process of social production, they will unconsciously think and find solutions. And the premise of all this is practice. Marxist philosophy has a broad and accurate understanding of practice. Its basic viewpoint is: take material life activities as the most important and fundamental content of practice. In this process of material transformation, people will inevitably form certain social relations or exchange activities. The results obtained at the end of the material production process exist as the end in the form of ideas at the beginning of this process. In the final analysis, Marxist philosophical theory expounds the definition of practice: that is, practice is the most basic activity for people to understand and transform the objective world. In practice, people regard themselves as a realistic material force, and with the help of other material forces, that is, labor materials as a material means, they have a relationship with the external world where people live, and pass their activities on to the objects they use, thus making changes that some people need. Through practice, wisdom has been successfully applied to objects.

Human beings live in the changeable nature. The natural gain and loss here is the research object of natural science different from society, but it refers to the whole existence in a broad sense. The whole nature has a much more complicated multi-level structure and self-organization mechanism, which is in eternal movement and change. Human beings interact with nature in social labor, and nature gradually shows its true colors to human beings in this social practice. Therefore, Marx thought: "History itself is a natural history, that is, nature becomes a part of the reality of human process."

After human beings came into being, they consciously took the nature they faced as their cognitive object. And take knowing the world as your own object of understanding. People can survive in nature because of their innate adaptability. What distinguishes them from other species is that they have a strong ability to solve practical problems with wisdom. This is not found in other natural species.

I hope the answer is useful to you.