近代世界观与人老年期幸福的失落

Modern Worldview and Lose of Sense of Happiness in the Aged

近代世界观是在近代欧洲出现的理解人的新观点,近代世界观的前提是把所有的存在都理解为相互分离、对立的东西。从这一角度看,人是跟自己之外的所有事物完全分离地、对立地、独立地、孤立地存在着。因为具有这样的存在论特性,所以人被看成是追求自身欲望和最大程度地满足自身欲望的存在者,决定人个体命运和社会价值的第一大要素便是自身的生理年龄阶段,欲望强的阶段社会价值大,欲望弱的阶段社会价值便小。年轻人既是欲望的主要生产者,也是欲望的主要消费者,他们构成了社会价值的主体、主流,消费的流变决定着社会价值的流变;而老年人随着欲望减弱、消费下降的“变老”,变成了“最无用的阶层”,“无用”即意味着“多余”,老年人沦落为劣等的社会存在,他们因此也突然失去了在社会中的话语权,人类自古以来崇老尊老的历史被颠倒了,人的老年时期沦落到了卑微痛苦的时期。近代世界观和由此而产生的价值观,是老年人命运失落的总根源。现代社会人的老年期越来越长,而这实际上意味着痛苦的、羞辱的人生越来越长,“幸福地变老”在现代文明中消失了,幸福地拥有整个人生变成了人类的幻想。只有改变分离的世界观,建立统一体的世界观,才能够开创和建立包括人的一生在内的人类幸福生活的新时代。

Modem world view is a new point of view originated from modem Europe for the understanding of mankind. Its premise is to understand all beings as separated and opposite objects. From such an angle, man is separated, opposed, independent and isolated being. Due to such ontological characteristics, man is regarded as being to seek its desire and to satisfy its desire to the maximum. The topmost factor to determine an individual＇s fate and social value is his or her biological age, with the age period having stronger desire higher in value, and the age period weak in desire lower in value. The young, as both the major producer and major consumer of desire, form principal part and main stream of social value, the change of consumption mode determining the change of social value; whereas the aged are reduced to low-grade social beings, therefore suddenly losing speech right in society. As a result, the human tradition of respecting the senior citizen has been overturned, the period of life advanced in age reduced to a painful period lowliness. The modem worldview and the value thus produced is the major root for the destiny of loses in the aged. In modem society, man＇s agedness grows longer and longer, which actually means the lengthy pains and humiliation, and the dream of ＂ enjoying aged period in happiness＂ has disappeared from modem civihzation, enjoying a whole life in happiness becoming a human illusion. Only by changing the separated worldview, and by establishing a united worldview, can a new era be initiated and established for human happy life with man＇s whole life included.