Chinanews client, Beijing, November 3rd. On the 3rd, many media reported that the philosopher Li Zehou passed away at the age of 91.
Academically, he has fruitful research results and was once respected as a "spiritual mentor" by young people; in life, he has personality and is humble and open-minded, "I don't have so many stories, my life is simple and ordinary".
Influential philosopher
Li Zehou was born in 1930 and graduated from the Department of Philosophy of Peking University in 1954. He is mainly engaged in the study of modern Chinese thought history and philosophy and aesthetics. He has achieved fruitful results and is a rare scholar with original ideas.
He became famous very early, and he became a family with his practical and "humanized" aesthetic view of "the unity of objectivity and sociality". "Philosophy Outline" and so on.
Among them, "The Course of Beauty" is a literary and artistic theoretical work created by Li Zehou. It has been rated as high as 9.2 on Douban. As a generalized outline of the history of Chinese aesthetics, Li Zehou described the ancient totems of dragons and phoenixes in the book to the craftsmanship of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It describes the process of the emergence, formation and evolution of the aesthetic consciousness of the Chinese nation, and outlines an overall outline for the history of Chinese aesthetics.
It is worth mentioning that the "Journey of Beauty" published in 1981 is thin and thin with more than 100,000 words, but it is temporarily "Luoyang paper expensive".
"In every student dormitory in the 1980s, I can always find out my "The Journey of Beauty"." He once said so, without concealing pride.
Indeed, in the "Aesthetics Fever" of the 1980s, Li Zehou influenced many people with a number of aesthetic and philosophical works, and he was respected as a "spiritual mentor" by young people and was extremely influential in intellectual circles.
According to reports, a former colleague of his once recalled that if Li Zehou was working at the Institute of Philosophy at that time, the office was crowded with visitors from all over the country, and neither of his colleagues in the office could squeeze in.
"I don't have that many stories"
In the academic field, Li Zehou is a great philosopher.
In normal times, he "does rashly", but is very humble and low-key, "I don't have so many stories, my life is simple and ordinary", "Books are people, and people are books."
"Some people say that I am withdrawn, proud, do not like to associate with people, and do not understand the world." Li Zehou did not conceal these comments.
He attributed the characteristics of this personality to the appearance of type A blood: impatient, strong sense of failure and frustration, poor communication with others, self-centeredness, etc.
He once said that he has four "quietness", including quietly writing: he never reported any plan, project, or topic in his life, he never told anyone before publishing a book or article; and "quietly read ", "I have a group of quiet and serious readers, this is my happiest".
He once talked about his work in this way, "My book has neither publicity nor hype, and there are very few book reviews, but a lot of criticism, but there are still people reading it quietly, which is very good. I am very proud of it."
The other two are "live quietly" and "die quietly".
In "How Does Chinese Philosophy Come On Stage?"
——Li Zehou's 2011 Talks, he mentioned that in the past ten years, his "three nos" (no lectures, no meetings, no TV) have basically been implemented.
"I said, I don’t report serious illness to my younger brother and sister. What's the point of reporting serious illness? Why do you worry about others? Live quietly and healthily, and then die quietly and quickly." Treating life and death, His attitude is extremely open-minded.
"Of course, this is purely personal. I appreciate and agree with others living and dying lively. I don't participate in my own birthday activities, but I am willing to participate in or appreciate other people's birthday activities." Li Zehou said.
He believes that his life is not "the golden mean", nor is he an enterprising "madman", at best he is just a "hit" who "does nothing". "Some people think I'm'very crazy'. , Actually wrong".
He once said in class, "After removing the age, I have no more advantage than you. I forgot the books I have read, and I have not read the books you have read." At the same time, he said: "I like seeing students refuting the teacher. "(over)