The reason why men want honesty is that in today's society, it is a big problem not to keep honesty.
In fact, everyone knows why we should be honest and ask others for honesty, but we don't practice much. It's like learning Buddha. Put it down? Everyone understands the truth, but few people really let it go. The reason is? Honesty? And then what? Put it down? Not only need to be reasonable, but also need faith!
Believing in honesty needs to know a truth: human beings dominate the world by virtue of the large-scale cooperation ability created by honesty. The evolution of human beings is always eliminating the dishonest individuals with variation.
Let's start with Darwin's theory of evolution. The species on the earth originated from? Natural selection, survival of the fittest . This process is gradually realized through genetic variation and natural selection and through the slow rolling of two wheels.
The essence of genetic variation and natural selection is simple: organisms are so prolific that they cannot all survive. There are always some different biological individuals? Okay？ Characteristics can make it easier for individuals who own it to survive and own it? Not good? Features are not so easy to survive. Many characteristics can be passed on to the next generation through gene coding. In this way, the next generation has more good functions and fewer bad functions. In the long run, creatures will change. Adapt to the environment, right? Okay？ .
The earth was born 4.6 billion years ago, cooled hundreds of millions of years later, and soon evolved its original life. After 2 billion years, eukaryotes were born, and after 65.438+0.5 billion years, complex multicellular life was born.
Then, in the brief moment of Cambrian about 530 million years ago, life evolved by leaps and bounds into a variety of animals, with new bodies, new organs and new predation and self-defense strategies. This is the big bang of Cambrian biological evolution.
In the book Blink of an Eye, the British zoologist Parker believes that in the past, animals could only perceive a small area near their bodies. During the CAMBRIAN period, the chemical composition of shallow sea and atmosphere changed, and the transparency was greatly increased. Vision has become the most important survival skill for animals. Predators can better track their prey, and prey can better see predators and avoid them.
Intense? Hunting and hiding? Games have promoted the rapid evolution of animals and created a large number of new species. Retina, fangs, claws, hard shells and other organs appeared, and the nervous system also evolved rapidly.
Since then, animals have evolved? Hunting? And then what? Hide? Expanded two dimensions. Today, 500 million years later, located in? Hide? The animal with the highest ability can take octopus as an example; Humans have achieved it by wisdom? Hunting? The pinnacle of ability. In the long process of evolution, the behavior of animals and early humans is largely due to genes, although environmental influences and individual particularities also play a role. Generally speaking, if there is no genetic mutation, their behavior will not change significantly.
Two million years ago, because of a genetic mutation, Jean? Homo erectus? This species appeared. They developed new stone tools technology, which is now regarded as their characteristic. Their stone tools remained unchanged for 2 million years before further genetic changes.
For a long time, human beings were not the most dominant species in evolution. Even about 70,000 years ago, our ancestors were on the verge of extinction.
About that time, an accidental genetic mutation changed the internal connection mode of human brain, making them think in an unprecedented way and communicate in a brand-new language. This is the so-called cognitive revolution.
The cognitive revolution produced syntactic human language, which led to the explosion of information. The human brain has extraordinary imagination, and the language with huge amount of information can express imaginary things, so that they can communicate, establish the same imaginary things, take them as true, believe them and use them to regulate their behavior, and culture is born.
The culture of honesty is like glue, which combines a large number of strangers together to form a huge joint force, making mankind the overlord of the world. Since the cognitive revolution, human beings have been living in a double reality. On the one hand, we have the physical reality of rivers, trees and lions; On the other hand, we also have the reality of God, Buddha, country and enterprise.
Can humans rely on imaginary reality to quickly adjust their behavior to adapt to changing needs and no longer obey? Only changing genes can change behavior? Limitations of this rule. This opens the door to adoption. Cultural evolution? The fast road is no longer hindered by slow genetic changes. After embarking on this road of rapid evolution, Homo sapiens' cooperative ability has advanced by leaps and bounds, and soon it has far surpassed all other human and animal species. Are you online? Cultural evolution? Although human genes and environment have not changed, human beings can quickly change their behaviors and pass on new behaviors to the next generation through cultural forms.
Honesty culture is a behavior way that human beings get by skipping gene mutation necessary for animal evolution and rapid cultural evolution. It has enabled mankind to gain the ability of large-scale cooperation. However, this behavior, which cannot be stored in human genetic code, is easily lost.
Once people's imagined reality changes, or is no longer really believed, they will lose their ability to restrain people's behavior. The culture of honesty will be lost, the ability of large-scale cooperation will disappear immediately, and human beings will lose their evolutionary advantage.
A history of human civilization is a history of struggle between honesty and dishonesty.
In every historical period, in every corner of the world, there are always some people who benefit from dishonest fraud, and honest people have a hard time. But honesty is the mainstream of human beings after all, because only in this way can human beings maintain the ability of large-scale cooperation and continue to evolve.
Where will cultural evolution take mankind?
Artificial intelligence enters the human body, becomes a part of the human body, and even completely blends together. This is an unstoppable process.
Artificial intelligence people are emerging. This is a new race, a fusion of machines and biological people, with some human feelings, but under the management of big data, it lacks privacy, is much stronger than human beings, and has a longer survival time. They will become the rulers of the earth and will compete for the position of the greater hegemon in the universe.
Human beings in our biological sense will disappear, and there is no need to go through the war between robots and humans. However, like all evolution, some advantages of human beings will be passed on to them, including the ability of large-scale cooperation and the culture of honesty it needs.
Life is short and fragile. One should at least realize the greatness of honesty in one's life and not become a dishonest mutant that must be eliminated in human evolution.
Reasons for Honesty ① Honesty and trustworthiness is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, the basic principle of being a man, the important content of building a harmonious society and the basic content of socialist core values.
Stick to honesty and you will win trust. If you don't stress honesty, you will lose faith in others, resulting in a crisis of trust, and it is difficult to gain a foothold in society.
Emphasize the importance of honesty. There are different types and forms of honesty. From the vertical historical coordinates, we can divide honesty into natural honesty in primitive blood society, family or interpersonal honesty in medieval agricultural society and public honesty in modern contract society. The natural integrity of primitive consanguineous society is related to consanguineous relationship, which arises from the needs of production and life within the original group, and the consanguineous group is the behavioral boundary of similar groups. In the primitive society where the level of productivity development is extremely low, individuals are completely dependent on blood groups and naturally have loyalty and credit to blood groups, so "keeping promises and building friendship" has become the basic code of conduct of primitive people. Moreover, this natural honesty is closely related to natural unity and courage, primitive collectivism and so on. At present, the natural factors of honesty are more than social factors, which are hazy, chaotic and lack of ideological information on the whole. The honesty of the peasant society in the Middle Ages is a kind of family or interpersonal honesty associated with the dependence of status and rank. Agriculture-based economy is a self-sufficient and closed inward-looking economy, which is limited by narrow time and space and communication. It relies on family ties and "acquaintance society" for production, exchange and consumption. People live in an acquaintance society, and thus constitute the moral principles and norms such as integrity that maintain this acquaintance society. In such a society, people have different status levels and enjoyment.
The rights and obligations of the first library network are different, so the information, nature and methods of honesty are also different. In modern market society, honesty is characterized by contract. The foundation of modern society and traditional agricultural society
The qualitative difference is from identity to contract, from acquaintance society to stranger society, from personal attachment to personal independence. Modern market economy is an open and export-oriented economy that connects production and consumption with exchange as the main way. It cut off the blood relationship between people and broke the traditional geographical restrictions, so that in such a society, the credibility of commodity exchange can only rely on contracts and contracts, which can be carried out under the protection of laws and systems. With the development of market economy, the norm of honesty has developed from subconscious to explicit ideology, and it has become increasingly clear and specific, becoming the most basic and universal criterion for regulating social relations.
From the perspective of horizontal realistic coordinates, we can divide the integrity of a society into economic integrity, political integrity and cultural integrity. Economic integrity refers to the integrity in economic life and material civilization construction, which is directly related to profit-making behavior, mainly manifested in corporate integrity. Market economy should be honest economy, and honesty is the soul of market economy. As a borrower, whether you can gain market trust depends on whether you will "enter the world of strangers". What is the debt repayment potential; As an operator, whether it can gain the trust of investors depends on its business potential; As an agent, whether other people's assets can be trusted depends on their potential to assume asset liability to others according to law; As a laborer, whether he can gain the trust of the labor market depends on his professionalism and career potential. With the rise of new trading methods such as e-commerce, online trading and futures trading, the spirit of credit ethics has become an important foundation for the healthy development of market economy. Experience at home and abroad proves that the more developed the market economy is, the more it needs to strengthen credit ethics, which is a prerequisite for integrating into the world economy and participating in international economic competition. Therefore, Franklin said, "Credit is money." Credit, trust and reputation are the passport of modern economic activities, as well as the power source and superior capital to ensure its success. Modern credit is the solemn commitment of the main body of economic activity to its own behavior and the positive evaluation of its performance by all walks of life. Credit includes professional credit (including commercial credit, bank credit and consumer credit) and social credit of general economic activities. Trust is the economic connection between the two parties on the basis of credit, only
Only trustworthy enterprises can gain the trust of the public and have a good business environment. Reputation is the sublimation of general credit associations. A trustworthy enterprise has a high reputation in the market and can be favored by other enterprises and consumers. Reputation is the spiritual wealth and value resource of an enterprise, a place and even a country, and even becomes a special capital. A reputable enterprise, with a good image and high popularity in the market, is itself a sum.
Huge intangible assets. Economic integrity includes production integrity, exchange integrity, distribution integrity and consumption integrity, which reflects the current economic decision-making, economic activities and economic evaluation.
Political integrity refers to the integrity in political life and political etiquette construction, which is mainly manifested in government integrity. Honesty should be emphasized in governing the country. Zi Gong was a student of Confucius. He asked Confucius how to govern the country. Confucius summarized it as "sufficient food and grass, many soldiers and people's trust." Zi Gong asked which of the three must be removed and which one to go to first. Confucius replied without hesitation: "To join the army." Zi Gong also asked which one should be removed first, "there is enough food" and "people believe that they have it". Confucius said, "Eat." In Confucius' view, "people have died since ancient times, and people can't stand without faith." Building people's trust in the government is more important than a strong army and adequate food for the "establishment" of the country. Xunzi also had a profound understanding of this. He believes that the law is strong if it wins the trust of the people, and the country is weak if it does not win the trust of the people. Therefore, the purpose and foundation of governing the country should be to establish faith. In modern society, political democratization has become a trend, which requires standardizing the behavior of the government and its officials according to the principle of good faith, increasing the transparency of government behavior, avoiding administrative monopoly and black-box operation of administrative work, making government affairs open, administering according to law, and establishing an honest government. In addition, political integrity also includes the integrity of political activities and political systems.