What are the similarities and differences between Jewish intellectualism and China traditional culture?

Similarities: China's traditional culture has a fine fashion of respecting teachers and attaching importance to education, especially the idea of "learning to be excellent and being an official", which to some extent combines intellectualism and utilitarian thought, and is very similar to the Jewish sacred-secular thought of "standing on the ground with wisdom and setting the sky with wisdom".

Difference:

1. Wisdom-worshipping thought and learning thought are second only to God-worshipping thought in Jewish culture.

In China, intellectualism lacked a solid foundation of sacredness and diachronic persistence from the beginning, accompanied by some non-intellectual opposing factors.

Confucianism emphasizes "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, kindness and courtesy", and the status of "wisdom" is not important.

Taoism, in a sense, is a typical anti-intellectualism thought.

Laozi: abandon wisdom and follow the holy.

Zhuangzi: Virtue depends on fame, and knowledge is indisputable. The famous are also rolling; People who know are also fighting for it.

At the same time, "wisdom" often became the victim of political struggles in past dynasties, and "burning books to bury Confucianism" was respected and imitated in later generations.

2. Learning is the Jewish world outlook, learning from everything, so as to survive and develop through learning.

China culture has never raised intellectualism to the height of world outlook, and learning is just a tool.

From the very beginning, China's "wisdom" was biased, confined to the field of humanistic knowledge, and ignored knowledge of nature's concern.

China's "imperial examination system" played a harmful role of "anti-intellectualism" to a certain extent. He studied hard and assiduously.

As for the status of intellectuals, all knowledgeable Jews are universally respected.

"I would rather sell all my property than marry my daughter to a scholar. In order to marry the daughter of a scholar, it doesn't matter if you lose everything. " (Hebrew proverb)

The status of intellectuals in China is subtle: Mr. Xu is a widowed doctor, and even during the Cultural Revolution, "the more knowledge, the more reactionary" and "smelly"

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