Seeing the Way of Reconstructing Values ​​in the West in the Age of Reason from "Sad"

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"In the heyday of this civilization, as long as there is still social oppression, as long as the world is forced to become a hell with the help of laws and customs, so as to create misery for the sacred destiny of mankind; as long as the three major problems of this century - men's moral corruption due to poverty , women degenerated by starvation, children debilitated by darkness—not all solutions; as long as in some areas, there may be social repression, in other words, in a broader sense, as long as the world exists Ignorance and poverty, then this type of book is not useless." The above passage is the author's preface written by Hugo in the original novel "Les Miserables", and the translation used here is Mr. Li Yuming's translation. It is not difficult to see from this preface that the author Hugo paid special attention to the issue of human morality in the social environment. Yes, since ancient times, the issue of the education of human nature has always been an important matter. In ancient my country, opera was adopted to educate the common people to be loyal, filial, benevolent and righteous. For Western people, take Les Miserables as an example, in this dark The most humanistic light in the world is some religious people, and the meaning of "Sorrow" today is how to raise the banner of kindness in the age of theological decline.

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