I finished Hated Courage a while ago and watched the second installment in the past few days.
I'm not right about the duology.anterior set (math.)High, mainly because I find his writing rather chaotic. Although it's still expressed in the dialogue genre, it doesn't seem to be as organized as its predecessor, and a lot of the dialogue feels rather repetitive.
If we try to organize the contents, I think it is roughly as follows.
- Talk about "self-reliance". The goal of human beings is to pursue self-reliance. I think this is related to a song that says, "A sense of contribution is the basis of happiness. In the second half of the book, it is said that happiness can only be achieved by judging oneself by one's own "self-identity" rather than by the opinions of others or the differences between oneself and others. I think this is the true meaning of self-reliance. In a nutshell, I think it means "to determine one's own value by one's own values, to determine one's own ability by one's own judgment, and to base one's sense of contribution on one's own judgment". Only in this way will you not be swayed by other people's judgment or how they may see you, and you will not have a disconnect between your own thoughts and other people's viewpoints, or "rely" on other people's viewpoints to judge yourself. It is also mentioned that it is difficult to create self-identity by using one's own thinking, so people often want to rely on other people's thoughts or society's opinions to judge what is good and what is bad.
- It talks about how to deal with your own relationships with others. The first half of the book spends a lot of time discussing the relationship between the protagonist and the students, how to really build a horizontal relationship, and why we should believe in horizontal relationships. What I learned from this is that I think of others in terms of "helping them to become self-reliant" and that whatever they do is their responsibility (the separation of issues mentioned in the previous book), but my mission to others is to "help" them. Helping is based on "honoring," which is Latin for looking from the sidelines, meaning that we are observing and assisting others from the perspective of the other, trying to understand what they think and need, and trying to see and feel from their point of view. This will enable us to understand others in our own mind. After we understand others, we can deal with things from "our" point of view. On the one hand, this is the practice of horizontal relationships and the Law of Cooperation, and on the other hand, it also embodies the "love" in the last chapter of the book.
- Definition of Love: In the latter part of the chapter, there is a long discussion about love and friendship, but I think the book is very much like a win-win relationship. We can choose to unconditionally "believe" in others, which doesn't mean only believing in what they say, but I think it's more like believing that "everyone is good". Of course, even if you mean to be good or are good by nature, you can still end up being evil because of your wrong judgment or thoughts. As for why we do this, I think the interpretation here is a bit pessimistic. The reason is that "in order to survive in society, we have to divide up the work, and in order to divide up the work, we have to trust each other", and whether or not we can trust other people depends on whether or not we "respect" that person, so we have to choose to respect and trust them. The truth is that we would be happier if we chose to do so.
I think the last point in particular is actually a bit religious. We have to believe in others, and in order to believe in others we have to believe in ourselves (perseverance on this point), and this is a struggle that we may have every day, which is why it is quite difficult. If we can accept this, then we can pursue common happiness from a "we" point of view, and then realize that we are part of the world, no longer self-centered, and achieve "self-reliance," and therefore happiness.
An excerpt from the end of the book, one of my favorite lines in the whole book: "The world is simple, so is life, but it's hard to keep it simple, because the ordinary days are the test."
Finally, in dealing with people, the following words are appropriate as a guiding principle: "In all encounters and in all relationships, keep striving single-mindedly toward the best possible parting."
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