Source: "Shangshu Shuo Strike": "Say kowtow and say:' Things are difficult unless you know them. "Confucius Biography": "It is easy to know, but difficult to do."
Interpretation: knowing is understanding, which means it is easier to understand the truth of the matter and more difficult to implement.
I have an article here about the debate that is easier said than done, which may be useful:
Easier said than done.
Chairman: Yang Lan
In favor: Nanjing University is hard to know and easy to do.
Objection: Fu Jen Catholic University is easier said than done.
PRESIDENT: Welcome to the '95 International University Debate Competition jointly sponsored by China CCTV and Singapore TV. Today will be the long-awaited grand final and the climax of this debate.
In the past six days, eight debating teams have played four preliminaries and two semi-finals, and each team has performed well.
On the surface, the debate seems to be an advanced intellectual game, but the knowledge and wisdom it evokes, especially the personality of debaters and the overall youthful charm, are not available in the debate itself. Of course, since it is a debate, there will always be winners, so the two teams sitting on the court today are "determined to win." With a little attention, both sides will find a very interesting coincidence. In my opinion, it happens to be male left and female right. On the one hand, they are good at dancing with long sleeves, and on the other hand, they are "curious, good men want to fight with women." In the past, we all said "Long Hudou" and "Long Hudou". It seems that today will be changed to "Dragon and Phoenix Becoming Lucky".
Now let me introduce both sides of today's debate. Sitting on my right is the square-Nanjing University Team. Their four debaters are: Yi Zhong Yi Chen, a third-year student in sociology; Re-debate of Wu Jian's Department of Civil Law in Level 4: the third debate is Lu Han, a sophomore in economics; Four Debates: Yang Wei, a first-year graduate student of Chinese Department (applause). Then the team sitting on my left is Fu Jen Catholic University. If you have watched the past few games, you may be quite familiar with these debaters. They are: Gu Zhenhao, a third-year student of Yi Debate Law Department; Li Lishu, a classmate in the second debate, is a junior in the Finance and Economics Law Group of the Law Department. The third debate competition is Liu, a third-year student in the journalism department of the Department of Mass Communication; Four Debates Lin Zhengjiang, a junior in Finance and Economics Law Group of Law Department. (Applause)
Our jury today is composed of famous Li scholars at home and abroad. Let me introduce them to you. The five members are: Professor Ping Jiang from the Law Department of China University of Political Science and Law (applause). Professor Wei, Professor of History and Philosophy in China, Harvard University, and Academician of the American Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (Applause). Professor Wang Yuanhua, President of China Literary Theory Society and President of East China Normal University (applause). Professor Sun Kangyi, Director of the East Asian Language and Literature Department of Lu Na University (applause). Professor Yu from Shanghai Theatre Academy. (Applause)
Ladies and gentlemen, it is difficult to know what is easy and difficult to know what is easy is a classic proposition in the sense of traditional culture. All the Taisa people in the past dynasties sighed deeply and left many famous conclusions. In real life, it is easier to know than to do, and everyone will make different answers according to their own life experience. I hope today's eight debaters can also put forward convincing arguments on this issue. As an active team, the debate position of Nanjing University is "easier said than done". As the opposing side, the debate position of Fu Jen Catholic University team is: "It's easier said than done." The positions of both sides are decided by drawing lots.
First of all, let's welcome Zheng Yi's three-minute speech.
Professor: Thank you, Chairman! Dear judges, distinguished guests and another debater from Bao Dao, hello! 500,000 years ago, our ancestor Beijingers lived in this land under our feet. Things have changed, and the stars have changed, saying goodbye to the past of eating and drinking blood. They learned to drill wood for fire. The use of fire is a great discovery that transcends the times. However, it was not until more than 100 years ago that scientists uncovered the law that mechanical energy was converted into heat energy, thus scientifically explaining the real mystery of drilling wood for fire. This irrefutably proves our position that it is easier said than done. The so-called "behavior" is the process of human action on external things, including the use of "knowledge"; The so-called "knowledge" refers to the understanding of "doing" and solving the problems of doing what, why and how. Knowledge is both a process and a result. The so-called "easy to learn from difficulties" means that it is difficult to learn knowledge and easy to use. It's easy to do things while knowing difficulties, and it should not be confused with his view of words and deeds, which is easier said than done. We advocate walking despite difficulties for the following reasons: First, cognitive genetics tells us that after being a prophet, we should walk despite difficulties. People can do it at birth. The so-called "dancing". "But it is difficult to be a knowledgeable and charming gentleman like other debaters. Personal knowledge is endless, and human exploration is endless. " The deeper you drill, the stronger your back will be. "(1) Confucius his old man's house still insist on learning the Book of Changes, weft knitting three unique. Visible learning is difficult! Secondly, dialectics tells us that cognition and action are closely related. Human behavior is a process of continuous progress, in which knowledge is the key. The journey of ignorance is just a simple repetition. With knowledge, there will be conscious behavior; With knowledge, there will be development and introduction. As the understanding, generalization and summary of action, knowledge is the beacon and guide of action; Only by mastering the knowledge and methods of business can you succeed. Know that only long-term hard exploration will achieve something, so knowing is more difficult than doing. Third, daily experience tells us that it is not easy to do it. In the final analysis, knowing or not knowing is not enough. As the saying goes, "it is not difficult to meet people, but it is not difficult to meet difficult people." "That's the truth. Once you have mastered the knowledge and methods of doing things, you will be as skilled as an expert in understanding cows. To sum up, knowing is more difficult than doing. Thank you! (Applause)
President: OK, ladies and gentlemen, now let's see how the other side puts forward their views. Please debate the opposing side, and Gu Zhenhao will speak for 3 minutes. Please.
Against: Hello, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! The topic separates knowledge from practice, which requires us to discuss the difficulty. If pure cognition and action are confused, where do the difficulties come from? The first contradiction put forward by the opposing debater is the process of incorporating knowledge into the line. Is it necessary to discuss lines? Any era needs the cooperation of knowing and doing, but different eras need the theory of knowing and doing. Generally speaking, there are only two kinds of knowledge, one is the conscience of morality and ethics, and the other is the knowledge of so-called scientific experience. Next, I will discuss the relationship between "knowledge" and "behavior" from these two aspects. First, looking around today's society, education and technology are becoming more and more popular, but people's moral behavior is becoming more and more degenerate. The so-called eating, drinking, whoring, gambling, smoking, cheating, cheating, stealing and social unrest are the problems we should face. At this moment, we can't help wondering, is this really the case? Is it because knowledge, education and culture are not enough? Isn't the problem specific implementation and practice? Don't we know the so-called benevolence, righteousness, propriety and wisdom? Don't we know the so-called ordinary citizen morality? What does traditional Confucianism tell us? The so-called "goodness of human nature, even if it is still water, will decline." . There is nothing wrong with people, and there is no water. "Mencius didn't say. Is "benevolence, righteousness, propriety and wisdom" the four ends of human beings? Mr. Wang Yangming even told us that today's so-called conscience is inherent in the heart and is innate. Therefore, we already know some basic principles of dealing with people and the so-called general Buddhist morality. Conscience is what we hold in our hearts. Isn't it clear and simple? Where is the difficulty? The difficulty is "ok"! The difficulty lies in the specific practice. Because of the slack of people's hearts, due to various restrictions and variables of the external environment, it is harder to say than to know! From the second aspect-scientific experience, it is easier said than done. Top quarks have been able to prove the existence of so-called top quark particles in physics for a long time, but we can't really grasp this concept before the accelerator is produced. After Einstein invented the theory of relativity, it took a long time for people to build an atomic bomb. To sum up, what common problems can we find? Common faults are one thing to say and another to do. That's why I just want to analyze what is hard to know and what is easy to do here. What is easier said than done? Only by recognizing what you know easily can you recognize what you don't know but just don't want to do. Therefore, knowing is not only knowing, but also doing. Actions must be coordinated. Therefore, after understanding the truth that it is easier said than done, it is necessary to prescribe the right medicine and hope to cure the disease! Thank you! PRESIDENT: Thank you, Gu Zhenhao! Now, please ask Wu Jianmin, a student in the second debate, to further elaborate on the positive side. The time is also three minutes.
Professor: Thank you, Chairman! Hello everyone! The other debater put forward a point: "It's one thing to say, but it's another thing to do." Obviously, they stole today's "relationship between knowledge and action" into "relationship between words and deeds". Did you really know when you said it? Parrots can still speak human words after training, but can we say that these parrots are as knowledgeable as their opponents? Obviously not! (Applause) Today, it has become a world trend to respect knowledge and talents, develop high technology and open up new fields. Humans have deeply understood that it is easy to walk despite difficulties. Only by facing difficulties directly can we walk briskly. The reason why we think what we know is difficult to do is more based on the following reasons. Firstly, it is more difficult to create knowledge than to use it. Today, people have turned a blind eye to electric lights, but Edison went through hardships and never changed his mind. He tried more than 1600 materials, made more than 10000 experiments and wrote 20000 pages of notes. You can see how difficult it is! Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the great revolutionary forerunner, traveled around the world and devoted himself to revolutionary research. He almost died in London, and finally worked hard to form People's Republic of China (PRC)'s founding strategy. Faced with such a fact, does the other debater have to tell everyone that it is easy to know? Schopenhauer put it well: great thinkers and scientists are the beacon of classification. Without them, human beings will wander in the confused sea! Second, it is more difficult to explore methods than to use them. Seeking knowledge includes not only general principles, but also specific methods. Legend has it that ancient Gun blindly used the method of covering soil with water, which led to flooding. Yu took his father as a mirror, explored the method of dredging, and finally achieved a comprehensive victory in flood control and disaster relief. Third, it is more difficult to know the law than to act according to law. Understanding the law is a process of accumulating sand into gold. Law is not a salesman, it won't come to you by itself. It needs people's unremitting exploration. The transformation and utilization of desert resources is a difficult problem to understand the law. Once human beings have overcome this problem, desert to oasis will no longer be a mirage. To sum up, understanding is a difficult and tortuous process. He needs the sense of responsibility of "God will hand over the great task to the Sri Lankan people", the courage of "I will search up and down" and the perseverance of "many people will look for him". Once we thought it was difficult to know and easy to do! Thank you all. (Applause)
PRESIDENT: Thank you for your speech! Now let's see how the students who oppose each other refute the positive views. The time is also 3 minutes.
Objection: Hello everyone! What kind of proposition did the other debater tell us? What the other party wants to know is to tell us what we know but not what we can do. Just unknown! Another debater, under such a proposition, let's see where today's argument should stand. If that's the case, the other debater told us that all the knowledge, everything you know is false unless you experience it one by one. For example. Today we know that it is immoral to throw garbage, and I also know that it is moral not to throw garbage. Then when I am throwing garbage, can you tell me: I have forgotten morality at that time, don't I know morality? When I lost it, I suddenly realized that my morality appeared again. In other words, what did the other debater tell us? Under this framework, the other debater just tells us: knowing without doing it is just unknown. So what is knowledge? What is the unknown? Don't forget a sentence: "knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, just knowing." Don't confuse the opposing debater. Well, I'll tell you from three aspects. It may be difficult to know, but it's even harder to do. First of all, in terms of weather, Mencius said: "Although wise, it is better to guide the situation: although there is a foundation, it is better to wait for the time." If it weren't for the situation of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei would have taken care of the thatched cottage, and the east wind in Chibi was brilliant. Despite his strategic wisdom, Kong Ming would not have been able to show his talents and make a big splash, and he would eventually fall into a "place where heroes are useless." Let's take a look at the limitations of the geographical environment. With the advanced technology in today's architecture, it is easy for us to know what methods and materials should be used to build the Three Gorges Dam, but it will take 15 years from start to completion. This project is huge and arduous, and it is entirely caused by the environment. Moreover, it is the logic of our human life to know what is easy and difficult. Everyone knows that men and women should care about each other and men should treat women equally, but after 20 years of long women's movement, women's status has not improved, so we should hold a women's conference in Beijing to continue our efforts! (Applause) Moreover, what we want to tell you is that individuals in today's society, whether they are environmental protection, women's rights, democracy, legal system, education, peace, culture or morality, all embody the truth that it is easier said than done. Only by recognizing the true meaning of what is easier said than done can we understand and understand. It is a common problem for people in China to sit and not talk. Only by taking the right medicine can we get rid of the disease, let everyone stand up bravely and be ashamed of empty talk, and give full play to the true spirit of China's traditional foolish old man moving mountains! My application is over! Thank you! (Applause)
CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Mr. Lin Lishu! Now, please ask Lu Han, a student of the third debate on the active side, to speak for three minutes. Please.
Pro: Hello, everyone! The other party talks about morality and ethics with us, which means saying one thing and doing another. Do you really understand morality? Ask the other debater to explain to us what is "full of benevolence and morality, full of thieves and prostitutes"? Another debater also said that some people don't know, but they don't want to do it. So, is this an excuse for thieves? Because the thief said, "I really don't know that stealing is bad, but I can't help but reach out my third hand"! The other side argues that men need love more than women, so since the other side argues that it is easier said than done, we want to ask a question, how can we open a man's closed heart? How can we make a man an open man? Well, we think it's easier said than done. Over the mountain of history, the great cause of human understanding and exploration can be described as "earth-shattering, crying ghosts and gods." "Life is precious", but Lilienthal gave his life for science. "Love is more expensive", but Nobel lived alone for his career. Li Shizhen tasted a hundred herbs before he got the "rejuvenation", and Sima Qian made great efforts to make it a "family statement". As you must know, the theory of evolution was born after decades of painstaking efforts. Bruno condensed the truth with his life. "The soul goes back and forth." "Difficulties and hardships, Yucheng." Throughout the ages, it is this knowledge seeker who has knocked on the door of knowledge with blood and life, which has cast the backbone of human civilization. Facing up to real life is not always smooth as debaters say, but a deep understanding of what is known tells us that it is more difficult to know than to do. "The road to knowledge is long, and human beings are searching up and down." Peace is difficult, and the difficulty is that the understanding of all countries has not yet been reached; Anti-corruption is also difficult, and it is difficult to know the way to stop corruption; It is more difficult to cure AIDS, and the difficulty lies in the lack of breakthrough in medical knowledge. Knowing will make things easier. Extensive and profound knowledge and profound thoughts are really hard-won, but what you get is courage in action and calmness in work. Overseas telephone calls sent out "God never shuts one door but he opens another", and radio waves sent out heartfelt feelings; Credit card allows us to "travel all over the world with one card in hand".