从经典出发,追问存在
我的思想探索,始于两个古老的问题:世界从何而来?人类将走向何方?《圣经》与《道德经》是引导我开始思考的两部经典。前者从天地的创造讲起,后者以“道生一,一生二,二生三,三生万物”描述万物的展开。它们属于不同的思想传统,却都促使我追问存在、变化与生命的根源。
经典对我而言,不是终止思考的答案,而是开始追问的道路。我尝试借助数学结构与哲学思辨,理解时间、秩序、差异与关系。我的 2ⁿ 理论,以及关于隐态统一、显现对立与关系态的研究,正是在这一探索中形成的思想尝试。
后来,我从世界如何展开,进一步思考生命为何渴望表达与连接。在《充盈与匮乏:渴望作为显化的动力因》中,我以“溢、缺、合”讨论充盈、距离与关系;在《世界是由渴望织成的》和《肉身:缺的器官》中,我继续思考情感、身体、有限性与爱。
从世界走向人类的过去与未来
当目光从世界的生成转向人类历史,我开始追问:为什么人类能够创造伟大的文明,却又一次次以信仰、秩序和正义的名义伤害彼此?
在尚未出版的中文书稿《韩战1950:猎文明的终局与土地文明的永生》中,我以朝鲜战争为切入点,回望中国自1840年以来面对的生存困境:一个社会如何获得保护自己、不被他人任意支配的能力?我把这道题写成一句话:我拒绝成为猎物。
但获得力量并不是终点。在另一部尚未出版的中文书稿《第二次拒绝:当我强大,精神能否让我停下》中,我继续追问:当一个人或一个民族终于强大,是什么使他愿意约束自己的力量?这便是第二道题:当我强大,我也拒绝成为猎人。
我将中国思想中的仁、恻隐、生生、知止,与基督教传统中人的尊严、良心和爱放在一起思考。我的目的不是断言哪种文明天然优越,而是追问:为什么保护生命的教诲有时会被权力扭曲?怎样让良心与制度真正成为保护弱者的边界?
文明的未来,最终是人的未来
人工智能与新技术正在不断扩大人类的能力,也让古老的伦理问题变得更加迫切:当我们有能力做更多的事,是否也知道何时应该停下?
文明不能只用财富、技术和力量来衡量。一个人能否自由地选择自己的生活,一个孩子能否安全地成长,一个弱者能否得到保护,同样是衡量文明的尺度。
我的写作跨越金融市场、数学、哲学、历史、文明与诗歌。它们看似不同,却始终围绕同一个愿望:理解世界的秩序,同时不忘记生活在其中的具体的人。
思想仍在路上
我不认为自己已经完成了一套终极理论。每一篇论文、每一部书稿、每一首诗,都是继续探索的一步。这个网站记录的,就是这条仍在延伸的道路。
从世界为什么存在,到人类应当如何存在。
从拒绝成为猎物,到拒绝成为猎人。
From the Classics to the Question of Existence
My intellectual journey began with two questions: Where does the world come from? And where is humanity going? The Bible and the Tao Te Ching first guided me toward them. One opens with the creation of heaven and earth; the other describes how the Tao gives rise to the myriad things. Their traditions differ, yet both invite reflection on existence, change, and life.
For me, these classics do not close inquiry; they begin it. Through mathematics and philosophical reflection, I have explored time, order, differentiation, and relationship. My 2ⁿ framework and my work on latent unity, manifest opposition, and relational states are part of that continuing inquiry.
My attention gradually moved from how the world unfolds to why life seeks expression and connection. In Plenitude and Lack: Longing as the Moving Cause of Manifestation, I explore overflow, lack, and union. In The World Is Woven from Longing and The Body: The Organ of Lack, I consider emotion, embodiment, finitude, and love.
From the World to Humanity’s Past and Future
As I turned toward human history, I began to ask: Why do civilizations capable of remarkable achievements also inflict suffering in the name of faith, order, and justice?
In my unpublished Chinese-language manuscript The Korean War, 1950: The End of Predatory Civilization and the Enduring Life of Land-Based Civilization (working English title), I use the Korean War to examine a question running through Chinese history since 1840: How can a society gain the power to defend itself against domination? I express this first question simply: I refuse to become prey.
Yet acquiring power is not the end of the story. In another unpublished Chinese-language manuscript, The Second Refusal: When I Become Powerful, Can Conscience Make Me Stop? (working English title), I ask what can restrain an individual or a people once they become strong. The second question is: When I become powerful, I also refuse to become a predator.
I bring Chinese ideas of humaneness, compassion, the nurturing of life, and knowing when to stop into conversation with Christian traditions of dignity, conscience, and love. My aim is not to declare one civilization inherently superior, but to ask how teachings meant to protect life can be distorted by power—and how conscience and institutions might protect the vulnerable.
The Future of Civilization Is the Future of Human Beings
Artificial intelligence and new technologies are expanding human capabilities, making an old moral question newly urgent: when we can do more, do we also know when to stop?
Civilization cannot be measured by wealth, technology, and power alone. Whether a person can choose their own life, a child can grow up safely, and the vulnerable can find protection are also measures of its worth.
My writing spans financial markets, mathematics, philosophy, history, civilization, and poetry. These pursuits share an aspiration: to understand the world’s order without losing sight of the people who live within it.
The Journey Continues
I do not consider my work a finished system. Every paper, manuscript, and poem is another step in an ongoing inquiry. This website records that journey.
From asking why the world exists to asking how humanity ought to exist.
From refusing to become prey to refusing to become a predator.
结语Final Note
每一颗星辰都需要高山来安放目光。
金之锋芒,源于土之沉默。Every star needs a mountain to rest its gaze.
The Metal shines only because the Earth is silent.— 庞伟 · Wei Pang