爱可以分为许多种:自私的爱、相互的爱、无私的爱……,同样,爱也有许多种表现方式,引起的结果则各不相同。每个人对爱有着各自的阐释与追求,那么哲学大师们怎么看待这个问题呢,让我们一起聆听他们“爱的箴言”。
Francis Bacon 培根(1561—1626,英国哲学家,英语语言大师,英国唯物主义和实验科学的创始人)
It is not selfishness to strive for the emancipation of oneself alone. It is selfishness if you consider yourself as a separate entity and work with the sole intention of amassing wealth, power, titles and such other benefits for yourself. But in a state of emancipation, when the entity of Self itself disappears, how can there be selfishness?
追求个体的自我解放并不是一种自私,而把自己看作完全独立的个体,仅仅谋求自身的财富、权力与地位以及其它的好处则是一种自私。因为,在个体获得解放的状态下,他的自我就消失了,自私怎么可能还存在呢?