Maybe... The Eternity of Houghton's Philosophy

Wallace 2022-03-23 09:01:46

I've been watching Sophie's World recently, and I'm watching Houghton and the Anonymous...and found it to have deep philosophical implications.

(1) What is big? What is small?

Who would have thought of the tiny dust falling on the flowers, people living in a country... Who would believe that there are countless lives under the dust. The Anonymous finally sweated "We Exist", which reminded me of existentialism in philosophy...

One day, he stumbled upon a piece of dust on a clover flower, and there

may be life on the dust, he chose to believe

that in the forest The rest of the animals don't believe it,

especially the self-righteous kangaroo

, and the group of anonymous people who live on the little dust will not know

that there are creatures far larger than them outside their own sky.

Maybe the earth It's not as big as we think, maybe it's like dust, maybe the universe is small... There's a universe beyond the universe... Maybe we're just nameless people living in dust, too small to be discovered by Horton...

What is big? What is small? Maybe you think the universe is infinite... But one day, you suddenly realize that maybe the universe is just a small box, and there is a bigger world outside the box... Maybe, all the stars we see now are just a grain of the infinite world Tiny grains of dust, and we are just nameless people in the dust...

From Holden and the anonymous people, we can appreciate the smallness of the world and the greatness of the human heart...

(2) What we can't see does not mean it does not exist... Knowing about

Holden With his keen insight and philosophy of believing that the world is omnipresent, he was curious and discovered the existence of the Anonymous in the dust... And the other forest dwellers did not find it, but if everyone did not find it, the Anonymous did not exist? One day , everyone has witnessed the existence of Anonymous...

In ancient times when science was underdeveloped, people have never seen planets, galaxies outside the galaxy, and strange creatures in the sea, but they still exist. Maybe Anonymous is only the existence in the author's animation, maybe we can think that they are The existence of nothingness... But who can prove that they do not exist, and if something cannot be proved to exist, it is said that he does not exist, which needs to be criticized... Not knowing does not mean that it does not exist.

(3) Socrates - The stupidest people are those who are confident about something they don't know.

Everyone is familiar with the proud and arrogant kangaroo in Holden and the Nameless... She sees herself as the truth, and everything that goes against her will disappear. She didn't know the existence of the Anonymous, so she denied its existence, and finally proved herself to be a stupid existence. Socrates said, "The wisest is to know someone who knows nothing about himself."

This reminds us again of the death of Socrates, he was just questioning, he was just using him Socrates made irony to teach people how to think, people gave him poisoned wine when they didn't understand, and a great thinker stopped thought. He died in the ignorance of others...and achieved the eternity of his own wisdom...

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Extended Reading
  • Delmer 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    Micro and macro, we just live in a dust

  • Kadin 2022-03-26 09:01:04

    The story of a stupid elephant.

Horton Hears a Who! quotes

  • Horton: All right, I gotta get this speck up to the top of Mount Nool A.S.A.P, whatever that means, probably 'act swiftly, awesome pachyderm'! I mean, how hard can that be?

  • Horton: This looks kinda... precarious. Well nothing to worry, obviously when they build a bridge like this they take into account that elephants will be crossing here.