1, survival;
2. Stay active;
3, refers to the compassionate breadwinner;
4, refers to various activities for survival and development;
5, refers to the experience of various activities for survival and development;
6, refers to the situation of food, clothing, housing and transportation;
7. refers to growth;
8. Family property and livelihood;
9. Work, work;
10 refers to the living expenses;
1 1 refers to the article; Artifact;
12, beautiful things; Good times;
13, another name for the pen. From Mencius: "Man cannot live without fire and water".
What is a good life? Perhaps in different times, different individuals will have different answers.
A beautiful life, or a full meal in the magnificent hall, or a sip of coffee after a nap, or overlooking the green mountains and green waters ahead, enjoying the fragrant air of grass, or smiling in the arms of your lover and staring into each other's eyes. For individuals or families, such happiness may be a sign of a better life.
However, from the perspective of a nation, a country and even the whole world, this view of happiness seems a bit narrow. In the new era, with the improvement of people's material living standards and the rapid development of science and technology, we need to rethink the significance of a better life in China today.
Obviously, when talking about what is a good life, the first thing that comes to mind is the abundance of material life. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Guan Zhong of the State of Qi put forward that "the granary should know etiquette, and food and clothing should know honor and disgrace". This means that a good life is only possible if material prosperity is realized.
When people are still struggling for food, clothing, housing and transportation, it is hard to say that people are happy. Guan Zhong's strategy is to win peace for Qi by realizing material prosperity. In Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory, the material survival needs are also regarded as the most basic conditions for people to meet the hierarchy.
Therefore, although we can't simply equate a good life with the abundance of material life, if there is no basic material satisfaction, the people's good life can't be discussed. After the reform and opening up, China's economic construction has made great achievements and people's material living conditions have been greatly improved, which undoubtedly laid a good material foundation for creating and building a better life.
However, material wealth alone is not enough to achieve a truly beautiful life. As the Stoic philosopher seneca said, "It is necessary for us to pay attention to the external conditions of our happiness-material wealth, but never pay too much love to it, because you are the master of wealth, not the slave of wealth."
Neither philosophers in ancient Rome nor sages in pre-Qin China regarded material satisfaction as happiness. Compared with material satisfaction and improvement of living conditions, these ancient sages pay more attention to spiritual greatness and tranquility. To a certain extent, these material conditions will become obstacles to their spiritual happiness.
Cynicism is one of the most extreme types. Diogenes lived in his barrel, which represented their extreme rejection of material wealth. On the contrary, he thinks that spiritual thinking is the condition leading to happiness.
Of course, we don't need to live a spiritual life in a wooden barrel like Diogenes does today. But we need to understand that for those thinkers, a good life is regarded as a spiritual sublimation. They regard wisdom, courage, temperance and prudence as virtues, and living by virtue is their understanding of a better life.
Similarly, under the cultural background of China, Zhou Dunyi's "getting out of the mud without staining, lingering and lingering" has become the admiration of China literati for the lifestyle of high morality and integrity, and Yan Hui's "eating and drinking in the mean alley" has become an example for China literati to stick to their spiritual pursuit.
Of course, a good life is not only the satisfaction of the most basic physical and material desires, but also not necessarily the satisfaction of abstract spiritual pursuits like Yan Hui, Zhou Dunyi, Seneca and diogenes. What we need to understand is that a good life is by no means a good life for someone or a group of people.
Once we put forward the concept of a better life, we should put it in a broader perspective. When Aristotle put forward that man is a natural political animal, we should understand that a good life must first have a mind that benefits the whole world. It is vulgar to satisfy one's material desires, but just pursuing one's spiritual world is not a good way to understand a better life.
We are always in the same body. Only when this same body can be equal and harmonious with each other and achieve universal justice can we expect a better life.
In this sense, we can understand Fan Wenzheng's thought of "worrying about the world first, and enjoying the world later". In other words, a truly beautiful life can only be based on a more just and equal * * * identity, and it is impossible to stay on the material conditions of accumulating gold and jade, nor can it be the spiritual pursuit of honest and honest literati.
The only way to achieve a better life is to create a fairer, more harmonious and more harmonious body from the realistic historical background and with the spirit of saving the world. Although this goal is still far away, it is indeed a good life worth pursuing.