Fan Zhen, Zi Zhen, Dancing Yin Man. Famous thinkers, representative figures of Taoism, and outstanding figures during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Fan Zhen, who was upright by nature, had a rough life, and was not afraid of threats and inducements, so he also offended many eunuch children, and because of his "Van Fren" he offended many monks who were attached to the aristocratic ruling class. His Treatise on The Annihilation of God is one of the rare philosophical works of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Fan Zhen: The Theory of Annihilation
Keywords: atheism, anti-Buddhist debate, gengzhi, backbone
Fan Zhen was very opposed to Buddhism, he believed that Buddha did not exist, and that Xiao Ziliang, the king of Jinling, was a devout Buddhist believer, and Fan Zhen strongly advised King Jingling not to believe in Buddhism, saying: "Every year we have to spend a lot of money on those monks, it is better to use it to help the poor and save the world, strengthen the army and enrich the country, and dominate the world." "It seems that this guy is not simple, not only a thinker, but also an ambitious person, but unfortunately in the aristocratic political environment at that time, his governing ideas were still very difficult to reuse, and at the same time offended many current rulers.
Anti-Buddhist debate
Fan Zhen had a very wonderful debate with Xiao Ziliang, the King of Jinling, and a Buddhist monk.
Once, Xiao Ziliang asked, "You don't believe in karma, why are there riches and poor people in the world?" "
Fan Zhen replied: "Life is like a flower on a tree, with the same hair in one branch, the same blossom in the same stem, falling with the wind, some skimming the curtain drapery and falling on the mattress mat, some climbing over the fence wall and falling next to the dung pit." Those who fall on the mattress are people like His Highness; those who fall by the pit are people like xiaguan. Although the nobles are completely different, where is the cause and effect? "
Fan Zhen believes that the human form and spirit are inseparable, and when a person dies, the spirit is gone. He also believes that the reason why people have consciousness is because the spirit is attached to the body, and once the person dies, the spirit disappears, so the form has no consciousness.
In the anti-Buddhist debate, Fan Zhen single-handedly fought against the monks, whether it was the monks' every effort to make things difficult or Xiao Ziliang's coercion and inducement, did not let him put aside his own opinions, and such an obsessive person was really a rare person under the rule of that dark politics. Therefore, his atheistic philosophical ideas can be passed on to the world.
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