My understanding of teacher Wang Defeng's viewpoint on cultural differences between the East and the West.

Recently, recommended by friends, I watched some videos of teacher Wang Defeng about the cultural differences between the East and the West on the Internet. After watching the video, there is always an experience, so I will share my experience.

In Teacher Wang's explanation, I was deeply touched by one point, that is, there is always a world on the other side and a real world in western culture, while there is only one real world in China culture.

The view of the other side of western culture originated from Plato. He believes that there is a world of ideas besides the real world. The perceptual things in the real world are all imperfect imitations of the conceptual world. For example, a pair of scissors in reality is an imperfect imitation of scissors in the conceptual world. So everything in the real world is flawed, so we are always modifying things in the real world to make it closer to things in the conceptual world.

China culture is different. We only have one world, not two. Confucius said that "man is not far from Tao" is what he meant. The pursuit of "Tao" should be pursued in the real world, and the suffering of fame should be experienced. It is impossible to reach the realm of "Tao" by thinking hard. We don't have two worlds, what we pursue is "the unity of man and nature".

It is easy to produce western science and technology by existing the concept world and transforming the world. I think: scientific discovery expresses people's desire to explore the laws of the conceptual world. The development of various technologies expresses people's desire to transform the flawed real world.

China culture pursues the unity of man and nature, and more life experiences are integrated into our lives. We seek to observe people's hearts, but we also seek ethical humanity and its nourishment for the soul. "monarch, minister, father, son, son" brings a sense of security that is not found in western culture.

In addition, the teacher has another point that I quite agree with: Western culture pursues the truth of logic and reason, while China culture pursues the realm of life and emotion. To pursue the truth of logical rationality, we must emphasize speculation; to pursue the realm of life emotion, we must emphasize experience. This coincides with my previous point of view (western culture emphasizes speculation and eastern culture emphasizes experience), emmm, a little happy ~