"What might happen in the future, and what might not happen in the future. There's just a moment, no matter who you are or who I am, it will come." Things to Come. Socrates finally has his own time to pick up the poisonous wine and drink it down. Until then, whether the philosophy you are attached to can be stable against the crashing life in the quiet brewing. When the Roman soldier slashed at Archimedes, the old man only had time to say: "Wait a minute, don't step on my circle."
Life and death can bloom in an ordinary moment, and the despair carried by the peace in life is the bottom of the invisible well. In the film, a female philosophy teacher who studies Schopenhauer, Rousseau and Horkheimer, a young philosophical woman who once experienced the May storm, at the age of 55, also calmly and naturally integrated into the life of the market like a drop of water. Facing the demonstrations and protests of the students, she said, do you think I have never seen a day like yours? I've seen it all and thought about it. And now I just want to read philosophy, teach young people to read philosophy, you just need to be on time for class. Students asked back: Isn't philosophy meant to be a way of life? But the paper was blown by the wind, and she went to pick it up in a panic. Her students handed in their papers early, she said, really, don't think about Rousseau's words again.
But the life that rested on quiet philosophical thought was falling apart. The dull husband cheated while reading Kant, the starry sky above his head and the bed sheet of the mistress. "Natalie, I came in the morning to get the last batch of things. I try to follow the principle of fair distribution, but we seem to have taken "The World as Will and Representation" wrong. If you find out, can you help me put it aside. Thank you!" After reading the note, she said angrily as she checked her bookcase: "How dare he say that. He took my Levinas, which was full of my notes." His message and her anger , let people see the infatuation and cuteness of the readers. Philosophy cannot save two people who are together at the same time, it is just a dialogue with the lonely. The real thoughts will only meet in a moment, and the long-term matching is the redundancy and repetition of life.
Then the mad and selfish mother died, leaving behind a black cat named "Pandora". Cats are clearly more attuned to life's vicissitudes than philosophers. On the first night away from home, the philosopher caught a mouse, but the manuscript written by the philosopher was rejected again and again, and the beloved students began to criticize their own thoughts, and the final spiritual fit was also Start cracking. Only her and her own philosophy were left. The world around her began to collapse, and the torrents of life collided with each other, and she began to be placed in a vortex of chaos.
Philosophical rationality and self-awareness seemed at first to force everyone to remain indifferent to sudden sudden changes in sensibility, but this cement-like sobriety would not last long. She threw away the flowers that her husband put on the table, refused to be approached by strangers in the dark, and finally began to collapse and cry the moment she got on the bus. Then, over and over again, I began to recall verse 229 of Pascal's "Book of Thoughts":
"I looked everywhere, but I was uneasy, everything was dark.
If I could see the traces of the Creator, I would rest in faith.
Yet too much negation and too little affirmation frustrates me.
or express or direct,
I can follow you.
And now,
I don't know who I am,
I don't know how to do it either,
I know neither myself nor my mission.
I am bent on finding true beauty, and I want to follow it.
If there is eternity, I am willing to pay any price.
(It was changed again, and the original translation of Subtitle Jun is much smoother than the translation in the book.)
If there is eternity, I am willing to pay any price. Pascal couldn't teach more. Natalie unexpectedly saw her ex-husband and mistress walking hand in hand on the street while thinking about Pascal's bus. This kind of humor in life made her burst into laughter. The strangeness of the world, Camus said, loses the imaginary meaning we ascribe to it. You try to revive what you lost by imagining it, then lose it again, and one day you don't want to think about it anymore. Because although life is absurd, man is a creature that seeks and carries meaning. Obtaining meaning is a far-reaching and long-term process. Temporary accumulation will not make it invalid, and desire can only be quelled repeatedly. After quelling, boredom will constantly interrogate you.
The most appreciated scene in the film is the part where the heroine is a sojourn student and lives in the countryside. A person lying gracefully on a grassy slope to read, a philosopher's leisure, as if the overturned life did not cover her. A person's joy in the face of the natural scenery is sometimes far more complete and innocent than the pleasure of wisdom and speculation. This time is often the time when there is nothing in the heart, there are no sad and happy plots and excessive thinking, there is no cover up from the turmoil of the world, and there is no discernment of knowledge words. The cheating husband finally came home late at night and read Schopenhauer in the middle of the night. The heroine who came back from the countryside still resolutely took back the key and drove him out of the house. After all, Kant could not live with Schopenhauer.
Then on Christmas Eve, she hugged her newborn grandson and sang a medieval children's song. When people are poor, they return to their roots, or they return to babies, or they return to nature. Nature and babies are the two happiest people. However, we can't see it through. After returning to life again, after the baby is released, what kind of explanation and explanation will she make about her inner life and spiritual world after the baby is released from her pregnancy? Can philosophy become a way of life? Or maybe it means everything in the heart of a beautiful person, because the rocks on the top of the mountain will roll down again at any time, and the starry sky above will not oppress you.
A few days ago, when I read "Einstein's Biography", Einstein said that he first agreed with Schopenhauer's statement that one of the strongest motives leading people to art and science is to avoid the disgusting life in daily life. The vulgarity and hopelessly dullness of man is to free himself from the shackles of man's own capricious desires. In addition to this negative motivation, there is also a positive motivation. People always want to paint a simplified and accessible picture of the world in the most appropriate way; that's what painters, poets, speculative philosophers, and natural scientists do, all in their own way. Each makes the world system and its composition the fulcrum of his emotional life, revelling in the serene landscape that seems to have been designed for eternity. in order to find in this way the serenity and serenity that he could not find in the narrow confines of personal experience. "
In the past, when someone asked you what is the use of studying philosophy, you will ask him what is the use of living. Now when people ask you what is the use of philosophy, you just laugh, I am a student of biology. What is the meaning of philosophy, when you encounter it and prepare to make it your career, you will find it both nihilistic and meaningful. Except for the robbers, those who really study philosophy are very hard people. Philosophy is not such a grand and majestic cause, it is the torture and struggle of thought, the triviality and crawling of words, the street lamp on the long street in the middle of the night, and the fingers that keep tapping on the keyboard. It's just that occasionally the moon will be round, the lights will be on, and the cool breeze of summer nights will blow in from the window, and your eyes will light up at a certain moment.
It only summons you in a hidden moment, it holds for you a long-lasting place of sacrifice and a destination, and it cannot give you a concrete or ready-made answer: when the living world around you collapses completely , it comes, you know, you choose, you suffer. Because whether it is a silent universe or a noisy society, there is no need to break and annihilate you with all your strength, a gust of wind, a gust of rain, and a single demolition is enough. But as Pascal said, the universe does not know its own victory, but man knows his own death. We pursue the unity of life and thought, and we also face the moment when life and thought are separated and broken. Life will always flow in despair and tranquility. We need to question our hearts and search for its meaning in art, philosophy and science. For life, you can only face it calmly and at a distance.
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