The spread of coexistence: A structural pedigree of pre-ethics
abstract
This paper attempts to re-explore how "coexistence" exudes the pre-ethical structure from its own harmony on the premise of suspending morality and intention to join the WTO. Previous understandings of Gongexistence were often influenced by Confucian virtues and tended to be at the level of benevolence, sincerity, and trustworthiness. This article does not deny these levels, but maintains that they are not the primary form of coexistence. First of all, co-existence does not exude virtue, but exudes structure: tension, polarity, rhythm, direction, return, induction, concealment, scale. Only when these structures exist first can virtue gain a foundation in the human world. This article uses this judgment as the axis to re-spread the common pedigree and respond to a more fundamental question: the reason why we put virtue first is only because we are already in the midst of a breach.
1. Why do we need to re-explore
In the previous inspection, they were developed into the "eight virtues" such as Tao, Emptiness, Conscience, Benevolence, Wisdom, Harmony, Integrity, and Faith. This pedigree has its own insights, but it has an imperceptible tilt: it has unconsciously moved towards "between people" and towards the world, understanding, empathy and order.
This is understandable. Because when we talk about being together, we always associate it with "you and I" and "common" life. But being together is not the same as being interpersonal. It precedes interpersonal relations, precedes ethics, precedes all "good between two beings."
Therefore, what we need to do this time is to take a step back: not regard coexistence as "we" for the time being, but rather as "unity". Then ask: What is the first one to come out of this "same"?
The answer is not virtue. Virtue comes later. The first thing that comes out is the structure.
2. First out: Tension
The first exudation of coexistence is tension.
It is not a conflicting tension, but a kind of "hidden but not transmitted traction." In complete harmony, there is already some very slight "instability". This "instability" is not bad, it is the beginning of "possibility". Without it, nothing could happen.
This tension was the earliest movement. It precedes the direction. The direction also needs to be "towards somewhere", and the tension is just "something is slightly tightening."
In the Tao Te Ching, it is called "continuous if it exists". In Leibniz's case, it was the "primitive force". It is the earliest "seemingly moving but not moving" between pure motion and pure stillness.
3. Second comes out: polarity
As soon as tension begins to manifest, it becomes polarity.
Not opposition, but division. One is two. Yin and Yang. Gathering and dispersing. Being and not.
The role of polarity is to allow structures to become structures. Because the structure needs to be different. Without differences, there is no position; without position, there is no relationship.
Therefore, the first pair of diffusions that coexist is not good and evil, nor is it good and bad. It is the most neutral pair:This and that.With this and that, the world can be pointed out for the first time.
4. Third comes out: rhythm
Polarity is not static. It will definitely start to move.
The initial form of movement is not forward or backward, but rhythm.
The rhythm is "one coming, one going" and "one opening and one closing". It has no purpose, no direction. It is just the breath of polarity in time.
Rhythm precedes the sense of time. It is even the source of a sense of time. Before people learn to timing, they already have a rhythm. The movements of the stars, heartbeats, languages, and seasons are just the repetition of the common rhythm on different scales.
5. Fourth comes out: direction
Rhythm gradually acquires a bias and direction emerges.
Direction is not the goal. The direction is that the rhythm is a little bit heavier at one point. It starts to lean toward something "there."
This is the birth of Dasein and direction. Dasein is not the center of co-existence, it is just the first "here" formed when the rhythm deviates.
Once the direction appears, the structure moves from "pure rhythm" to "identifiable direction." The road unfolded accordingly.
6. Fifth comes out: Return
As soon as direction appears, return appears at the same time.
This was not something invented later. Return is the accompanying structure of direction. Just like light goes and returns; wind comes and goes.
Return is a memory left by the common people in the direction. It keeps the direction from becoming a ray that cannot be returned. It retains a way back to the vicinity of Tong.
Therefore, return is not an ethical act invented by humans. It is the origin of the structure. Wherever there is a direction, there must be a return. People just turn it into morality.
7. The sixth comes out: induction
After polarity, rhythm, direction, and return, induction occurs.
Induction is not understanding, empathy, or benevolence. Induction is the "correspondence" between structures. One rhythm is recognized in another rhythm.
This is not a human ability. Everything feels. Iron is responsive to magnetism, wind is responsive to mountains, and light is responsive to water. The root of induction is not in the person, but in the common: because it is the same, it can correspond.
Benevolence, just induction falls on the name of people and people. But induction is earlier and wider than benevolence.
8. Seventh comes out: Invisible
Shared distribution is not fully manifest. Half of it is visible and half hidden.
The obvious side becomes the phenomenon, content, direction, and structure. On the hidden side, continue to retreat deep and not be brought out.
Therefore, coexistence does not just give "clarity". It also gives "You". Not just giving things to say, but also giving things not to say. Not only "you" are given, but also "hidden".
This implicit structure is extremely important. Because if the coexistence is fully manifest, the roots will be gone; if the coexistence is fully hidden, the world will be gone. It must be both explicit and implicit at the same time.
9. Eighth comes out: Scale
The last thing that comes out is the scale.
There is no ethics here, but there are boundaries: what can be revealed will not be revealed yet; what can come back will be lost.
The scale is not determined by a certain god. It is a measure that is naturally formed during the dissemination process in order to protect the hidden side.
Boundaries, moderation, and awe are all the identification of "standards" by latecomers. The measure itself is not a certain personal virtue, but a spontaneous adjustment between "manifest" and "conceal".
10. Pedigree rearrangement
If you re-rank the co-existing distribution, it should be:
tension
polarity
rhythm
direction
return
induction
public, their
scale
Going up again are those things that were later called "virtue":
Sincerity is the undisguised expression of tension
Benevolence is the undispersion of induction
Conscience is not forgetting the return
Ming is not biased towards the hidden and explicit
Boundaries are not giving up on scale
A letter is not to abandon the possibility of return
Tao and emptiness are not at the forefront of the genealogy, nor are they at the end. They run through all emanations: Tao is the "birth" that comes out of all this, and emptiness is the "stay" that does not seal you off.
XI. Conclusion
Being together is not a kingdom of virtue. It is the source of structure.
Before people meet each other, it has already released tension, polarity, rhythm, direction and return. The most precious connection, sincerity, and trust between people were not invented by humans. They are just common original structures that have been walked over again at a specific, temperature-sensitive node.
This may be the most stable basis for joining the WTO:
It's not because you have virtue that you can be like others. But because the root of the world is originally with you and him before virtue.
Virtue is the end, and structure is the foundation. The spread of coexistence is a cosmic event that precedes human relations.