The nature of labor and work
——Thinking about people and work (10)
In the topic of thinking about people and work, we discussed the situation of researching this topic. Everyone can really feel the great significance of this topic. We discussed the activities of human beings, discussed society and nature, and discussed the generation and prevention of personal excess resources. , discusses human activity and knowledge. Today we're going to talk about labor.
The nature of labor and work
The perspective we explore: the perspective of an independent individual to think about the interaction of society, human society and nature. As long as the academic writings and theories you see now are all about the labor of natural persons from a social perspective. Here we must think about a very important question: Is all our research serving the society or the individual? It must serve an independent and individual person. This is the ultimate value of research. Society is an instrumental value and a procedural value. Therefore, we have reason to doubt the rationality of this social relationship, and constantly make corrections, eliminate inequality, and eliminate the principle that "human beings are planned as a whole" that violated the original human beings. Previous studies completely assumed that human beings are part of society, but to study the meaning of human beings in society and study society itself, this is a completely wrong starting point.
Labor is the inheritance of human knowledge, the utilitarian choice of society and the observance of natural laws.
The activities of material cognition, absorption and pursuit of people's own pleasure. Labor does not exist in isolation; labor is the interaction between the state of motion of human beings, the overall interests of society, and nature.
Labor is the inheritance and innovation of human knowledge. The essential difference between humans and animals is the inheritance and generation of knowledge in human activities. This knowledge belongs to all human beings present in society. Human labor is carried out under the guidance of knowledge. Except for the wolf child explored by Western scientists, who is completely isolated from society, strictly speaking, the wolf child is not a human being but an animal. Human knowledge is disseminated through various channels, such as behavioral display, text display, and now multimedia display. As long as you are born in human society and grow up in human society, you will inevitably be silently transmitted and influenced by these cultures. It is also the responsibility of society to transmit knowledge to individuals. (You can refer to what we discussed before.) In practice, knowledge is continuously increased, knowledge is updated, knowledge is practiced, and the human labor process is also a process of increasing knowledge.
Labor is constrained by the utilitarian nature of society. Human activities can only be carried out under the utilitarian constraints of society. The emergence of Western technology has triggered scientific ethics, that is, can people be created? According to the current technology, people can be completely created through human technology, and they can also change their biological attributes. These activities are not allowed. These labors are against the overall interests of human beings. That is to say, they do not conform to the natural reproduction of human beings, do not conform to human subjectivity, and do not conform to the core premise of human evolution as a whole. Humans cannot create And change the species and genus of human beings, not to destroy the natural environment for human existence, not to destroy the equal relationship between people and so on.
Labor follows the laws of nature. Nature can be recognized, and labor is the natural combination of human activities. All human activities and all thinking, whether it is thinking, thinking, thinking itself, or thinking about society, must satisfy two results: one is the happiness of man himself, and the other is the development and use of material technology. And these labors are the result of following the laws of human cognition and the laws of things themselves.
The nature of labor and work
Work is the social role assignment of labor. Social people exist in the form of organizations, and organizations endow individual labor with a certain role. This block of labor is called work. Work conforms to all the attributes of labor, and individuals obtain survival resources through work.
Work should secure and satisfy a person's personal activities. Labor is a part of human activity, work is a part of labor, and work is of course a part of human activity. It is also an activity of people under a specific role in society, and an exchange of labor and survival resources between people and society. Work must conform to the integrity of people's activities, that is, work must conform to and guarantee people's resting state, exercise state, and meet the requirements of people's survival activities and hobby activities.
Work should safeguard and human knowledge inheritance and innovation process. People complete socially segmented labor through their own skills. This kind of skill is the practical ability transformed from the knowledge that this block must have. Human practical ability brings material or pleasure to human society through work. Work satisfies people's skeptical spirit, transforms people's skeptical spirit into skills and then into innovative knowledge, and enters the human knowledge base.
Work should secure and satisfy people's social activities. Human social activities are a series of communication activities that occur after human beings form a society. People's social activities more reflect people's social needs, express people's social attitudes, and realize people's social ideals.
Can work bring happiness? I have seen many people think that work is a kind of torment. In the traditional sense, not working is a very happy thing. The princes and sons of the Manchu Qing Dynasty carried bird cages and shuttled through the six major hutongs. Is this a very happy thing? This is of course the fall of man, which is essentially no different from animals. Bruno was burned to death, Shang Yang’s car split due to reform, Yuan Longping walked in the fields to experiment with hybrid rice after retirement. Do you think this is a kind of pain or a kind of happiness? When those writers and artists who lived in embarrassment died, people discovered that they created huge material and spiritual wealth for mankind. What is the reason? Of course, it is the social reason, that is, the unreasonable society does not set it up, that is, the reason why we think about the topic of people and work. Through the first nine articles, you will definitely give the answer that the work itself must bring happiness.