Tolerance after reading 1
The dead historical figures come alive, leading us to wander in history and explore the root of human spiritual intolerance. In the era of advocating knowledge and rationality, human beings should learn to be tolerant.
I love tolerance since I was a child, because I am obsessed with that beautiful sentence: "The crushed flower will still get its fragrance on the shoes, which is tolerance."
The sky contains every cloud, no matter its beauty or ugliness, so the sky is vast; The mountain accommodates every rock, big or small, so it is majestic; The sea contains every spray, whether clear or turbid, so the sea is huge. This is a philosopher's most vivid and intuitive interpretation of "tolerance". One day, I read Ji Bolun's poem: "I will walk on the beach forever, between sand and foam. The tide will erase my footprints and the wind will blow away the foam. But the sea and sand banks will always exist. " My heart is trembling silently. I think I can understand the eternity of the ocean, and I remember the tolerance of the ocean. For an instant, I seemed sure, and I understood that tolerance is to repay others' resentment with love. Suddenly I seem to realize that tolerance is a simple ideal, and her existence only needs a noble and tenacious soul. However, after I read Tolerance, I found that Mr. Long Fang seems to have different views on tolerance.
Although the book Tolerance mainly discusses the intolerance in the history of western religions and the struggle for this intolerance, it seems that the significance of the book Long Fang has gone far beyond the religious field and become a category of universal significance in the human spirit today. In a sense, the history of mankind is a history of striving for tolerance. The reason Long Fang wants to say in the book is very simple. He can quote his own words to illustrate: "All people who fight for tolerance, no matter what their differences are, have one thing in common: their beliefs are always accompanied by doubts;" They can honestly believe that they are right, but they can never turn their doubts into firm and absolute beliefs. " What Long Fang opposes most is the spiritual and physical tyranny imposed on all believers and non-believers after the combination of secular efforts and spiritual beliefs. In his view, any absolute belief contains potential violence. Once faith finds its way to secular power, its tyrannical nature will be revealed. The answer given by Long Fang is doubt. We should use doubt to dilute any concept, theory, way of thinking, and even the essence of our own reproduction, reproduction and dictatorship. Doubt everything, and use doubt to give all room for progress. In Long Fang's eyes, the beginning of most beliefs is simple, even romantic, but once it develops steadily, it will fall into the clutches of utilitarianism and be beyond redemption. It is logical for Long Fang, who hates utilitarianism, to explain narrative history from a utilitarian point of view, because the original purity and sublimity are likely to be false in essence and contrary to human nature. Political romanticism will turn into bloody tyranny, and monarchs with romantic feelings will often degenerate into tyrants. The former is evidenced by the French Revolution, and the latter is around us.
Today, it seems that the significance of the topic of "tolerance" has gone far beyond religion itself and has become a common phenomenon in the human spirit, such as intolerance out of laziness, intolerance out of ignorance and intolerance out of selfishness. In today's economic globalization, a country must have strong economic strength if it wants to gain a firm foothold. Domestic reform and opening up are indispensable. Old enterprises are facing production suspension or even closure, and a number of emerging industries are rising rapidly. The market economy is completely intolerable. Extending to life and study is to set up the object of competition, always hold the attitude of never giving up and not wanting to fall behind others, and catch up with others with their own practical actions, which is intolerance. It is worth pointing out that the competition here is equal and fair, and the intolerance here is not only reflected in not giving in to the strong, but also in being dissatisfied with yourself and daring to put forward higher requirements. In this way, development requires an intolerant and merciless attitude towards people and the courage to dare to challenge.
Mr. Long Fang firmly believes that "the day when tolerance will dominate the world will surely come, which will become the progress of human history". The bondage of thought, the tyranny of war, racial discrimination, etc. Are calling for tolerance. We long for a peaceful and peaceful day, but we should also be responsible for society, others and ourselves. When necessary, we must never "tolerate" and turn tolerance into indifference. That may be the biggest disaster! Look at life with an objective attitude, and you will find that tolerance in life will make you peaceful and serene, and intolerance in development will promote social progress. Both need to exist in the past, present and future.
Tolerance is a book worth reading again and again. As a humanist, Longfang is committed to using reason and freedom to fight against all kinds of narrow consciousness based on prejudice and self-righteous superiority, and advocate tolerance and understanding between people on the same planet. To be sure, no matter how advanced human civilization is, as long as there are two people on the earth, this feeling is necessary.
After reading 2
One day, I accidentally saw an article "Tolerance" on the Internet that benefited me for life. This article is mainly about a teacher who found that a student often drew with his head down in class. One day, he went over to pick up the student's painting and found himself grinning.
The students were afraid that the teacher would blame him, but the teacher was not angry. He just smiled stupidly and asked the students to deal with the painting after class to make it more realistic. Since then, the student has never painted in class. I tried once. I'm not like this teacher, but I scolded him to see if he would dare to draw me in the future. But since reading the article Tolerance, I regret why I can't be as calm as this teacher. Maybe there is a reason to draw my classmate.
So from that moment on, I asked myself to be tolerant of others. Take it out on others with the rhythm of law. The vastest thing in the world is that the ocean is wider than the ocean, the sky is wider than the sky, and the human mind is wider than the sky. Tolerance is actually the source of people's happy life. Only with a frank and tolerant heart can we be calm and today's complicated and changeable social life become rich and colorful.
With tolerance, you will have a broad sky and a generous heart. Of course, if you learn tolerance, you will learn to live. In the face of other people's mistakes, a smile brings others understanding is tolerant. When you forgive others, you are also forgiving yourself.
When our hearts choose tolerance for ourselves, we get the freedom we deserve, because we put down the burden, and we should add a sweet smile to our friends and enemies. Tolerance can make friends. When you can tolerate other people's mistakes with an open mind, you will naturally have more friends. Let's be more tolerant, make life easier and happier, and make more friends.
It seems to be a female classmate in our class. She is very savage and often twists my hand badly, but I am not angry. Once, she was ill and admitted to the hospital. My classmates and I used the Saturday holiday to buy flowers and fruits to visit her in the hospital. She was so moved that she never squeezed my hand again. I became good friends with her. I read the text Tolerance, and I understand better that learning to be tolerant of others means learning to be kind to yourself. Resentment can only keep our hearts in darkness forever; But tolerance can make our hearts free and liberated. Forgiving others means liberating yourself and restoring a pure heart.
Tolerance after reading 3
"Without tolerance, there will be no growth. If you tolerate others, you will tolerate yourself. " Lung Fong
1925, Long Fang, a famous American writer, published Tolerance, which examined the development of western civilization from the beginning of the Eastern Roman Empire to the end of the French Revolution in a unique perspective.
The reason Long Fang wants to say in the book is very simple. He can quote his own words to illustrate: "All people who fight for tolerance, no matter what their differences are, have one thing in common: their beliefs are always accompanied by doubts;" They can honestly believe that they are right, but they can never turn their doubts into firm and absolute beliefs. "
What Long Fang opposes most is the spiritual and physical tyranny imposed on all believers and non-believers after the combination of secular rights and spiritual beliefs. In his view, any absolute belief contains potential violence. Once faith finds its way to secular power, its tyrannical nature will be revealed.
The answer given by Long Fang is doubt. We should use doubt to dilute any concept, theory, way of thinking, and even the essence of our own reproduction, reproduction and dictatorship. Doubt everything, and use doubt to give all room for progress. In Long Fang's eyes, the beginning of most beliefs is simple, even romantic, but once it develops steadily, it will fall into the clutches of utilitarianism and be beyond redemption.
It is logical for Long Fang, who hates utilitarianism, to explain the narrative history from the utilitarian point of view, because the original purity and sublimity are likely to be false in essence and contrary to human nature. Political romanticism will turn into bloody tyranny, and monarchs with romantic feelings will often degenerate into tyrants. The former is evidenced by the French Revolution, and the latter is around us.
Tolerance after reading 4
The Encyclopedia Britannica explains tolerance in this way: "Tolerance means allowing others the freedom to act and judge, and being patient, fair and tolerant of opinions different from their own or traditions." The reason why they spread to the European continent from the distant shore, and started a prairie fire, is because they inherited Jesus' dogma of "love your neighbor as yourself, banish narrowness, and be brothers everywhere", caring for the poor and making all beings equal. But it is a pity that after gaining power, an autocratic system was established, political power was monopolized, religious courts were established, dissidents were persecuted, and many people who contributed to human civilization were guillotined in the name of "pagans". All opposing cultures, old and new, have been rejected and destroyed, people have lost the opportunity to choose their beliefs, and without tolerance, the whole western world has fallen into a quagmire. The classical culture of Greece and Rome declined, and the Middle Ages in Europe became a "dark century", which lasted for thousands of years until the Renaissance.
This seems ridiculous. Why did yesterday, as a persecuted person under the intolerant policy of the authorities, turn over and become the master, immediately change his face and exclude those vulnerable groups who are still intolerant? Long Fang tells us with a series of historical facts that the historical development of the whole western Middle Ages seems to have been promoted in the struggle between tolerance and intolerance. Intolerance arises from this and has always been regarded as an important code of conduct for those in power because of "fear". If we also stand in the perspective of the tragic situation we have experienced, we can understand why they are afraid, because it is too difficult for those faith groups without power to survive. After experiencing ups and downs, they are afraid of going through the fate of extinction again. So they use "intolerance" to eradicate all religious groups that may affect their stable status. "No matter what form of persecution is taken, it is caused by fear. The intensity of persecution reflects the anxiety of those who set up gallows and throw wood on the woodpile."
But the facts tell us that only freedom, including trade freedom, personal freedom and ideological freedom, can promote the dual development of national economy and culture. The civilization and thought produced under the tolerant political system of ancient Greece, and the speculative spirit of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle still illuminate the world until now; Voltaire, rabelais and Montesquieu. During the Renaissance, their thoughts and speeches laid the foundation of the modern political system. The emergence of these philosophers should be attributed to the openness and tolerance of their times. Recalling the intolerant Middle Ages now, it seems that I can only float in the burning stake in my mind and the fearful eyes on the ferocious faces of intolerant people around me.
Intolerance is not just, look at other historical facts introduced in the book: Martin? Luther, a religious reformer, initially declared that "burning pagans is against the spirit of the Holy Spirit". A few years later, it was the same person who fell into a frenzy of hatred at the thought of those Protestants returning to Catholicism, and religious persecution rose within the scope of Protestants; Robespierre, the pioneer and leader of the French Revolution, declared himself the "Messiah" after overthrowing the monarchy and religious dictatorship, quickly executed pagans and caused a nationwide massacre. The bloody victims who gave their lives for the French Revolution became stepping stones to the new dictator.
SimMarcus of ancient Greece said: "We look up at the same stars in the sky. They are all passers-by of this planet and live under the same dome. Everyone is trying to find the final truth. Is it really important which way to find it? The mystery of survival is too mysterious, and the correct answer should not be only one way. " However, human beings have always refused to compromise and admitted that people have spiritual freedom and are born equal.
The religious dictatorship policy led to resistance activities one after another. Under the suppression of violence, peace is just a seemingly calm but rough deep sea. Once there is any trouble outside, the waves will be overwhelming and unstoppable. King Martin of England after Protestant independence? Luther's religious reform movement, the Renaissance trend of thought and the uprising of the French Revolution eventually led to the collapse of religious rule.
People born in today's religious tolerance environment can't imagine the time when they died because of different beliefs and suffered because of different opinions, but please remember that these people who gave their lives for freedom and tolerance wrote a history against religious intolerance with their bodies:
"I will be burned to death, but this is only a small matter, and we will continue to argue in eternity." Michael Servetus.
"Just because there are many people, I hope to be consistent with the thinking of the group or the majority. This is the proof of the low-level mentality." Bruno
Tolerance after reading 5
Today, religion has already got rid of the shackles of the old times, got rid of the charges of intolerance, and returned to its true meaning. This should make Longfang feel gratified. But today, Long Fang's book is still of great significance. Because today's society has stepped out of religious intolerance, but the ghost of intolerance has penetrated into all aspects of social life and ideological and political. As Long Fang said: We have not only one intolerant system, but more than a dozen intolerant systems. There is not only one cruel system of human killing each other, but one hundred. The country has just got rid of the terror brought by religious prejudice, but it has to endure more painful phenomena: inferior racial intolerance, social intolerance and many other forms of intolerance, which are more serious than before.
Truth is full of struggle in essence. Long Fang uses the word "tolerance" in a broad sense. He used such a concise concept to express what we often call freedom, democracy and rationality. Another version of "tolerance" is called "human liberation". He clearly pointed out that the word tolerance has always been a luxury, and only people with particularly developed intelligence can buy it. In fact, throughout history, all intolerance monopolized the truth in some sacred name, thus killing individual rights and personal freedom. Long Fang emphasized that in today's world, the need for tolerance exceeds everything. He let us see that modern intolerance is nothing more than "armed with machine guns and concentration camps" in the Middle Ages, rather than "using dungeons and slow-fire burning columns", and history may not make any progress; He said that from the day when tolerance ruled the country, it would take another 10,000 years, or 100,000 years.
In other words, for modern people, tolerance is just a dream and a utopia. What should we do? Long Fang didn't hang up on this question. He opposes those "termites" who completely oppose theory and tolerance and intend to destroy the cornerstone under our feet, and talks about tolerance. In his book Tolerance, he wrote: "As long as the world is still shrouded in terror, it is a complete waste of time to talk about the golden age and modernization." He went on to say: "As long as intolerance is an indispensable part of our self-protection law, it is a crime to ask for tolerance." Tolerance is not connivance. To advocate tolerance here is to crack down on intolerant forces, "paranoia and spirit".
Looking around the society we live in, it is still necessary for us to remember the following words:
"Today's heresy will become the enemy of all dissidents tomorrow";
"Nonsense and stupidity are like explosives. Only by putting them in a small sealed container and being hit by external forces will there be danger ";
"There is only one tyrant in the world, but the radicals have brought two";
"Of all things in the world, only truth is farthest from us";
"Some people think that once the goddess of truth has a smile on her mouth, she is no longer a good woman";
"Tolerance is like freedom. You can't get it by begging. Only by being vigilant at all times can we maintain it. "