SAE · The Second Enlightenment · Paper 4: One's Good, Written in Advance / SAE 二次启蒙论 第四篇: 利被写好

SAE · The Second Enlightenment · Paper 4. This record holds the Chinese final text (v1.0) and the English edition (v1.0). The English edition is an independent rewrite, not a translation. It sets out propositions W22–W27, numbered continuously across the series. Abstract (English) Immaturity has two layers. The first is having a seriousness of one's own, yet speaking of it only as interest; Paper 5 examines it. This paper examines the more fundamental layer: even one's good, that is, what is good for oneself, has already been written in advance, and a person has had no chance to think it out, try it out and grow it for himself. This layer is judged only as a matter of opportunity; it does not judge what anyone's good is, or whether it is right. The paper shows this with a chain of stipulated examples: from school, through admission, choosing a field of study and looking for work, to the job itself, each place makes sense on its own, yet taken together only one measure is left, and a scale thereby comes to run exclusively, though no one designed it. The scale also produces "cannot let go," and the criterion does not look at where something came from. Not yet having grown is nothing to be ashamed of; it is a road not yet finished. 摘要(中文) 不成熟有两层。第一层,是有自己的认真,却只说成利益,第五篇写。这一篇写更根本的一层:连“利”,也就是什么对自己好,也已经被预先写好了;一个人没有机会自己去想、去试、去长出来。这一层只作机会判断,不判任何一个人的“利”是什么、对不对。这一篇用一条设例的链示范:从学校、升学、选专业、求职到工作,每一处单看都说得过去,合起来却只剩一种刻度,一杆秤由此取得了独占的运行,没有谁设计过它。秤也会生产“放不下”,判别不看它从哪里来。还没长出来,不羞耻,那是一段还没写完的路。 Related identifiers Relation Identifier Resource References 10.5281/zenodo.21611154 On the Colonization of Value (SAE Value Theory, Paper 3) References 10.5281/zenodo.23270384 Not Crossing the Line (SAE Institution Theory, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874133 What an Economy Is Not (SAE Political Economy, Prequel) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874138 Accumulation (SAE Political Economy, Paper 1) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874140 Chokepoints (SAE Political Economy, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874146 Conversion (SAE Political Economy, Paper 4) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874150 Growth (SAE Political Economy, Paper 5) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874154 Support (SAE Political Economy, Paper 6) These 8 identifiers are the 8 DOIs in the reference lists of the two texts (works of this system); the two lists carry the same set. This series The text cites these papers of this series by number (Prequel, Papers 1 to 7), not in the reference lists. Add them as References too if the record should link to them. Relation Identifier Resource References 10.5281/zenodo.24030393 What the Second Enlightenment Is Not (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Prequel) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030395 Is It Worth It? (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 1) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030397 For Oneself (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030401 Reading Structure, Not Minds (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 3) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030411 Calling It Worth It (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 5) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030413 No Longer Asking for Proof of Worth First (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 6)

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SAE · The Second Enlightenment · Paper 4: One's Good, Written in Advance / SAE 二次启蒙论 第四篇: 利被写好

Han Qin
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SAE · The Second Enlightenment · Paper 4: One's Good, Written in Advance / SAE 二次启蒙论 第四篇: 利被写好

Han Qin
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SAE · The Second Enlightenment · Paper 4. This record holds the Chinese final text (v1.0) and the English edition (v1.0). The English edition is an independent rewrite, not a translation. It sets out propositions W22–W27, numbered continuously across the series. Abstract (English) Immaturity has two layers. The first is having a seriousness of one's own, yet speaking of it only as interest; Paper 5 examines it. This paper examines the more fundamental layer: even one's good, that is, what is good for oneself, has already been written in advance, and a person has had no chance to think it out, try it out and grow it for himself. This layer is judged only as a matter of opportunity; it does not judge what anyone's good is, or whether it is right. The paper shows this with a chain of stipulated examples: from school, through admission, choosing a field of study and looking for work, to the job itself, each place makes sense on its own, yet taken together only one measure is left, and a scale thereby comes to run exclusively, though no one designed it. The scale also produces "cannot let go," and the criterion does not look at where something came from. Not yet having grown is nothing to be ashamed of; it is a road not yet finished. 摘要(中文) 不成熟有两层。第一层,是有自己的认真,却只说成利益,第五篇写。这一篇写更根本的一层:连“利”,也就是什么对自己好,也已经被预先写好了;一个人没有机会自己去想、去试、去长出来。这一层只作机会判断,不判任何一个人的“利”是什么、对不对。这一篇用一条设例的链示范:从学校、升学、选专业、求职到工作,每一处单看都说得过去,合起来却只剩一种刻度,一杆秤由此取得了独占的运行,没有谁设计过它。秤也会生产“放不下”,判别不看它从哪里来。还没长出来,不羞耻,那是一段还没写完的路。 Related identifiers Relation Identifier Resource References 10.5281/zenodo.21611154 On the Colonization of Value (SAE Value Theory, Paper 3) References 10.5281/zenodo.23270384 Not Crossing the Line (SAE Institution Theory, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874133 What an Economy Is Not (SAE Political Economy, Prequel) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874138 Accumulation (SAE Political Economy, Paper 1) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874140 Chokepoints (SAE Political Economy, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874146 Conversion (SAE Political Economy, Paper 4) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874150 Growth (SAE Political Economy, Paper 5) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874154 Support (SAE Political Economy, Paper 6) These 8 identifiers are the 8 DOIs in the reference lists of the two texts (works of this system); the two lists carry the same set. This series The text cites these papers of this series by number (Prequel, Papers 1 to 7), not in the reference lists. Add them as References too if the record should link to them. Relation Identifier Resource References 10.5281/zenodo.24030393 What the Second Enlightenment Is Not (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Prequel) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030395 Is It Worth It? (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 1) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030397 For Oneself (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030401 Reading Structure, Not Minds (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 3) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030411 Calling It Worth It (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 5) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030413 No Longer Asking for Proof of Worth First (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 6)

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