Dilemma And Redemption

Shi Tiesheng was young and sick.Accompanying his illness was his thinking about life,disaster,fate,and the meaning of life and the state of death.This article explores Shi Tiesheng's spiritual process of seeking salvation,and the spiritual affinity of his thoughts and traditional culture in different stages of the process,and then analyzes the traditional cultural factors that influence Shi Tiesheng's ultimate goal of human redemption.In addition to the introduction and conclusion,this article is divided into three parts:The first chapter analyzes Shi Tiesheng's early self-help attempts(before 1985).The first section analyzes Shi Tiesheng's recognition of the predicament in the early stage of disability,that is,the social reality dilemma that Shi Tiesheng faced in his early years.In the second section,through the change of Shi Tiesheng's attitude towards disability,he analyzes the Confucian doctrine of the golden mean in his thinking of receiving difficulties.The third section explains Shi Tiesheng's pursuit of social self-worth in the face of the loss of self-value and his relationship with Confucian views on the world.In the fourth section,this section mainly explains the reasons for Shi Tiesheng's transition from self-salvation to saving others,the factors of Confucianism implied in it,and the development of Shi Tiesheng's thinking on the simple humanism of Confucianism.The second chapter analyzes Shi Tiesheng's understanding and breakthrough of spiritual dilemma in the middle period of creation(1986-1996).In the first section,Shi Tiesheng's expressions of dilemma in his mid-century creations were compared with the earlier spiritual dilemmas of people who mainly focused on superficial social dilemmas,including the dilemma of death,the dilemma of desire,and the dilemma of fate.The second section analyzes Shi Tiesheng's answer to the dilemma of death and the Taoist ideas implied in it.The third section analyzes Shi Tiesheng's breakthrough on the dilemma of destiny and desire,uses Taoist dialectics to discern the spiritual dilemma and then resolve the dilemma,recognizes the existence of the self,and breaks out of the spiritual dilemma a way of life to resist suffering.In the fourth section,Shi Tiesheng advocates creating an aesthetic life to counteract all the difficulties of life.This attitude is partly influenced by the complementary outlook on life of Confucianism and Taoism.And the difference between Shi Tiesheng's aesthetic outlook on life and Taoist outlook on life.The third chapter,in the late period of Shi Tiesheng's creation(1996-2010),Shi Tiesheng went beyond thinking about the plight of specific individuals,and rose to a metaphysical thinking,focusing on the ultimate direction of man,such an ultimate The direction must be inextricably linked with religion,but the ultimate spiritual end of human beings proposed by Shi Tiesheng is very different from religion.This chapter starts from the characteristics of Shi Tiesheng's religious spirit and analyzes the religious and cultural factors implied in it.The first section analyzes Shi Tiesheng's metaphysical reflections on the predicament.From "disabled people",that is,self-suffering,to "human disability," that is,the dilemma that all people face together.The second section expounds the influence of the transcendental perspective given by religion,mainly Buddhism,on Shi Tiesheng's judgment on the solution to the survival dilemma and the thinking of the other side on the meaning of human beings.In the third section,the spiritual self-salvation in the late period includes the thoughts of the early and middle periods and deepens,including the shaping of individual aesthetic life and the transcendence of salvation to others.These two aspects together constitute the entire content of Shi Tiesheng's redemption thought.