Today, I organized the scattered annotations on the Outline of Philosophy into my notebook and found that Principal Bu also posted a note. Upon comparison, it appears somewhat lacking in detail. I am sharing it first for everyone to give their opinions; I will listen attentively to all your feedback.
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- Ideology is various specific forms of social consciousness, such as science, philosophy, arts, religion, etc. The bourgeois ideology is expressed through various forms of consciousness, so bourgeois ideology is essentially the form of social consciousness that carries bourgeois thoughts. For example, current religion often propagates bourgeois ideas.
- The main current is the official promotion of Confucian thought by the Zhongxiu (Middle Cult) regime, which ideologically instills Confucian principles like loyalty and filial piety into the people. For instance, Zhongxiu promotes patriotism but describes it as a super-class patriotism, claiming all Chinese should be inherently patriotic towards the Zhongxiu state. They also say that all Chinese people are born to kneel to their parents, and children should respect their parents, etc. These claims are baseless; in reality, they are based on subjective and objective spiritual assumptions, forcing people to believe in the so-called “Three Bonds and Five Constants” and “Heavenly Principles” as inviolable. As a religion, Confucianism, like all other religions, does not ask people to understand what it says but to worship and believe in it. Confucianism fabricates the so-called Three Bonds and Five Constants without basis and forces people to believe, using laws and moral power to coerce belief—such as using Zhongxiu police to suppress women resisting their husbands, children resisting parents, and courts to make judgments favorable to husbands and parents. But this is not persuasion; in fact, Confucian believers only try to forcibly subdue others when they are no longer alive.
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The outline is very clear and good. However, I didn’t understand how your example about your sister reflects the development view of metaphysics.
I also didn’t understand the example you gave about the metaphysical development view. The quote you mentioned from your sister seems a bit incomplete, and after reading it, I still don’t understand what your sister wanted to express. Why did she say “Don’t look at all kinds of messy stuff online”? What specific communication did you have with her? I really couldn’t see how your argument started.
This matter is undoubtedly a moral corruption. This capitalist, who acts as a pimp, plays with and abandons women everywhere, and also exploits workers, which is utterly evil. Engels also mentioned related points in “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State”: “The ancient system of prostitution has changed more under the influence of capitalist commodity production, becoming more suited to capitalist commodity production, turning into outright prostitution, and its corrosive effect on morality is greater. Moreover, its moral corruption of men is much more severe than that of women. Prostitution only causes women, who are unfortunate victims, to degenerate, and they are far from reaching the level of degeneration that is generally imagined. On the contrary, it corrupts the character of all men.”
The immoral behavior of soliciting prostitutes is indeed “not only present in slave societies but also in feudal societies, and even more so in capitalist societies,” and it might be more appropriate to discuss this in the context of the entire class society. Engels’ statement on this is: “Women are increasingly deprived of the sexual freedom of group marriage, while men are not deprived. Indeed, group marriage still exists for men today. All behaviors that are considered criminal and would cause serious legal and social consequences for women are regarded as honorable for men, or at most, as minor moral blemishes that can be accepted with ease.”
Regarding your sister’s situation, I personally don’t think it’s metaphysics (at least based on your description). After all, such oppression of women has indeed existed from slavery to the present. But if you say that this phenomenon will always exist and cannot be changed, then that is metaphysics — believing that the current state of affairs will not change.
My statement has a problem, it’s the meaning you expressed