Chapter 9 Chapter VII Honor and Love Honor

The honor I mentioned refers to the two foreign words "honour" in English or "Ehrlichkeit" in German. Both of them have the meaning of personality. In Chinese, it is difficult to find an appropriate translation. I am now translating it into honor. The purpose of life is not only to live, but also to live with honor.Honor is the manifestation of the brilliance of personality, and it is also an inseparable part of the whole life.A person without a sense of honor has no personality; what is the meaning of living in a dark and gloomy life? Westerners attach great importance to honor; they regard honor as more important than life.If you say that someone has no honor, he must think it is the greatest insult to him.It is also common to implement a decision on a matter of honor.Whether this method of decision-making is correct is another question, but their respect for honor cannot be underestimated.The British call the cabinet member who is also the privy secretary: "The Right Honorable", not to compliment him as the most noble, but to compliment him as the most honorable. The school motto of the US West Point (West Point) Military Academy is three The words are country, duty, and honor (Country, Duty, Honor); this is the emphasis they place on honor in military spiritual education. Many schools in Europe and the United States also have the so-called honor system in the exams: Afterwards, he immediately left the classroom and did not invigilate the exam. He only wrote a large character on the blackboard, which was "Honour". Therefore, the students dared not cheat because of the concept of honor. If someone cheated, not only the school would immediately punish him Expelled, and this person has never looked down on his classmates. (Recently, 90 West Point students who were also members of the National Championship football team were all expelled for plagiarism in the exam. No one can recover. This is an example. Supplementary note on September 9, 2040.)

The concept of honor is too underdeveloped in Chinese society.In order to arouse common people's understanding and respect for honor, I specifically raise the issue of honor and love of honor for discussion. When it comes to honor, it is often associated with reputation.But honor is different from reputation, honor is not reputation.Reputation is another word in English, namely "reputation".Fame is external, but honor is internal.To put it more clearly, reputation is just the praise of the outside world, while honor is the glory from the inside. It can also be said that the glory and the reputation added by the outside world are combined.Therefore, honor has an inner value, which is more precious than reputation.Although the West has the reputation of being the second life, the honor is simply the first life, or a part of the first life.However, fame and honor are also related.Human beings are social animals, and they need external stimulation, encouragement, and recognition from the outside world, so that they can make progress spontaneously and consciously seek progress; therefore, the National People's Congress is all about reputation.Below the third generation, I am afraid of getting a bad reputation. A good reputation is not necessarily a bad thing.The Soviet Union often used reputation to encourage people to work hard.So he chose the worker who worked the hardest as a worker hero; use the worker's name to name the factory and the system.Heroic insignias are also often given to those who venture to the North Pole; this is evidence of the encouragement of honor to greatness.This is not harmful, but beneficial.The Chinese Lao Tzu once asked a question: Which one is closer, the name or the body?I think the answer of many Westerners must be relatives!

Honor is not fame, let alone vanity.Vanity is "vanity" in English, and it can also be translated as a floating name.Vanity is seeking other people's temporary favors, or vulgar praise, and then being complacent and satisfied.The manifestation of vanity is to show off and exaggerate so as to get others' praise for oneself.For example, women often like to wear gorgeous and bright clothes to attract people's attention; men like to show off, and often serve as the chairman of some meeting once, then they think they are great, and they think they are little heroes in this small world.This is all vanity.Vanity comes from illusion.Illusion is the food of vanity, and vanity depends on his cultivation.So once the illusion is disillusioned, the vanity will also dissipate.Not so with honor.He does not seek it from the outside, but seeks it from the inside, so he can be self-sufficient and permanent.Westerners say that vanity is feminine, but it is not a beautiful woman, but a fallen woman.Men have never been vain, but women are a little bit worse.Ordinary women like to be complimented and praised by others.If a man wants to propose to a woman, it is best to praise her a few times as an angel or a fairy, then she will easily fall into the love net!How can this kind of vanity be compared with honor?

Honor differs not only from fame and vanity, but also from ambition.Ambition is "ambition" in English, and it can be said to be a kind of male vanity.Most men like to seek their own political reputation, power, status, and rank in order to satisfy their own selfishness.This kind of ambition can sometimes push people to do beneficial things, but the motivation is still selfish, so bad results are easy to happen.Once some people's ambitions flare up, they often do whatever they want, regardless of their own abilities, in order to achieve lucky success.Little people take risks to get lucky, and as a result, they rarely fail to bury their honor and even their bodies in the ashes of ambition.If ambition is honor, he is only the honor of depravity.

As for the so-called rich family title, it is not even an honor.These are all honors, not honors.However, there is also a kind of honor and favor, which is obtained by the achievements of one's own hard work, which cannot be blamed.For example, some scientists in foreign countries have made great contributions to science, and the government bestows on them an honorary title, just like the title of Privy Councilor to a German university professor.It is indeed a nobler honor, though not a real honor. Honor is neither fame, nor vanity, nor ambition or honor, so what is real honor?I think that the real honor must meet the following conditions:

First, it must be able to maintain the dignity of life.People must insult themselves and others will insult them.A person with a sense of honor must have a body that cannot be insulted, a spirit that cannot be insulted, and actions that cannot be insulted, in short, a life that cannot be insulted.His life is complete and cannot be defiled in the slightest.The so-called taint of Bai Gui can be worn down, but the taint of what is said here cannot be done!His ideal life is lofty, great, upright, and strong.His life is noble and solemn, the so-called He He Shi Yin, the people have Er Zhan.Therefore, others respect him, but dare not despise him; love him, but dare not desecrate him.

The second must be able to do something different.Doing nothing is the hardest thing in life.One can do something by doing nothing, so a person with a sense of honor will never do anything below the standard.As for all deceit, pettiness, meanness, laziness, and other undercutting things, he even disdain to do it.This is exactly what Mencius said: if there is no ritual, and if there is no righteousness, adults should not do it.Opposite the adult is the villain, the little husband, the mean husband.A person with a sense of honor is proud of himself as an adult. The third must be self-sufficient and self-seeking.The outside world's praise, as long as it is well deserved, is not hesitant; for example, if a person who has won a Nobel Prize for his major scientific contributions, if he deserves it, he can certainly accept it with peace of mind, so why refuse it?But in everything you should ask yourself, do your best, and don't have to be distracted by hunting popular compliments.Popular compliments are not only unreliable, but also an insult in the eyes of honorable people.Famous painters' paintings don't care how many laymen praise them, but it is more expensive to be criticized by a real expert.The so-called promise of thousands of people is not as good as that of one person. This is the reason.Even if people in the know don't approve, they can still be comforted.Because one's own genius is brought into play, there is joy in one's own efforts.Many great artists in ancient and modern China and abroad got their names after their death.The same goes for scientists.The great scientist Kepler said in the preface of his famous book "Weltharmonik": I entertain myself with your forgiveness, and I endure your anger; here my dice are rolled, and I write this book for others. Reading, whether it is read by people at the same time or by people of later generations, what do I care about it?I can wait for someone to read it after thousands of years, and God will wait for someone to speculate on His work after six thousand years.This kind of maverick spirit can also be said to be a kind of lonely pride, but it is by no means pride.Looking at a history of science, how many scientists in ancient and modern times enjoyed international fame during their lifetime, how many other people besides Newton and Einstein?It is very strange that good fortune tricks people, the person who least seeks fame in life is often the one who gets the most fame after death.If you really make a contribution to mankind, even if you don't get the name, what's the problem?The real value of the world is often buried in the unknown.Many people who seek fame can really rest.

The fourth must be self-respect and be able to respect others.A truly honorable person not only loves his own honor, but also loves the honor of others.Honor is not arrogance, but self-respect and the ability to respect others.The son treats me as a national scholar, and I will repay him as a national scholar.In fact, if you destroy other people's honor, you won't be able to build up your own honor. In the dwarf country, what's the point of being the eldest son?If you want to be the eldest son, you have to go to the eldest son country, not in the dwarf country!A person with a sense of honor must be able to respect and serve others.He recognized man's abilities, praised man's specialty, and respected man's goodness.Proper self-esteem can also be properly bowed.The matter of flattery and arrogance is definitely not in his awareness of action.

All in all, honor is personality, and it is the most glorious completion of personality! Love of honor is an inclination of the will, and the dynamics of behavior is to obtain recognition based on virtue and beauty through loyal and pure behavior. The German philosopher Friedrich Paulsen said: We cannot imagine There is no strong love of honor, while great deeds can be shown.The improvement of society depends on this, the improvement of human beings depends on this, and the transformation of history depends on this. Today we must promote not only personal honor and love for the intensity of honor, but also a collective concept of honor.The collective concept of honor is the individual's love of honor for the group.For example, in a family, all members of the family must strive to maintain the family style or reputation of the family, and must not do anything that insults the family.Another example is a store that refuses to sell bad things, for fear of damaging its brand name, it is also out of the concept of caring for collective honor.Another example is a school, whether it is a staff member or a student, everyone should know the importance of the school's honor, and not casually bring down the school's platform.Premature or inauthentic reports in the laboratory should not be lightly published; for it is too little for the responsibility of the individual, and too much for the honor of the whole school.Not only the army known as the Ever Victorious Army or the Iron Army, but the officers and soldiers of the entire army must cherish the historical glory of their own army; every national army should work bravely to safeguard the glory of the national army.By extension, if a society, a nation, or a country is not to fall and be destroyed, its elements must work together to maintain and enhance its collective honor!

Life is a need for honor.A life without honor is dark, silent and odorless.A life with honor is noble and upward; a life without honor is humble and low.Animals only want to survive, not honor, nor the concept of honor.Man should be an animal whose reason, emotion and character have been developed to the highest degree; man not only wants to survive, but also wants to honor.Honor can also be said to be the exclusive product of human beings.Therefore, the British poet Lord Byron (Lord Byrom) has two poems: I would rather be crowned with glory in one day than live a life of being silent and odorless!