I have some feelings about the inevitability and contingency of things. Because human beings need energy input, people have to eat. Eating is "inevitable"; What to eat, when to eat, and how much to eat are accidental. Similarly, because people are organic life, and organic life always goes through the process of growth, maturity, weakness and death (natural law), so people always die.
It is inevitable that people will die, but when and how they die are accidental. I woke up today and found the road wet. We speculate that it may have rained last night, but it may have been watered (accidentally). If there was a heavy rain last night, we would definitely say that the road surface must be wet this morning.
We are used to finding out the reason of one thing, and if possible, we'd better find the final reason. Human nature has the desire to get to the bottom of it. The ancient Greeks faced a complicated world and wanted to find the final explanation of the world. From Thales' world originated from water to Plato's idea, people are not satisfied with the empirical explanation of events, hoping to find a final, inevitable and rational explanation.
Hegel, the master of dialectics, has reached the pinnacle of dialectical logic in his interpretation of contingency, inevitability and their relationship. "Accidental things have a certain basis because they are accidental, and there is no basis because they are accidental; Accidental things are inevitable, and inevitability defines itself as contingency. On the other hand, this contingency is quite absolute necessity.
Marxism inherited Hegel's dialectical thought and became the methodological basis of its own philosophy. The understanding of contingency and inevitability naturally has a more ingenious explanation. However, one shortcoming is that in the field of historical view, the idea of economic determinism is often criticized by the world.
The idea of economic determinism gives people the impression of fatalism and historicism. There is no doubt that economy is a powerful material foundation to promote the progress of history, but the occurrence of historical events is full of variables that are not conditional on material quantity, and psychology, external factors, traditional customs and personal actions of great men are all factors that cannot be ignored. The statement of historical inevitability often causes people's disgust, because inevitability ignores the individual's actions and significance.
Human society is moving towards globalization, which is a post-modern trend. Humans began to move from a narrow personal space to an information age with closer and more frequent contacts. There are more and more accidental factors, and the preaching of inevitability is increasingly unrecognized.
In the era when inevitability dominates, people talk about ideals and the meaning of life, pointing to an eternal inevitable field: the world of truth, the world of value and the world of ideas dominated by inevitability.
Nowadays people still believe that there are not many such eternal worlds, so how can life be meaningful? My answer is: live in a real accident and experience the world that the accident shows me with all my heart.
There is no need to believe what is bound to happen in this world-because it is false and unreliable-and there is no need to pursue a so-called eternal truth-because there is no eternal truth-and the inevitable truth is just an accidental fact, which is revealed by the accident in life. It's no big deal.
I am not sure what tomorrow means to me, and I don't need to know exactly what will happen. But I'm sure tomorrow will be a new day for me, different from today and yesterday. It's the same for others. Marx put it well: it is better to explain the world than to change it.
"If you are not a hero and don't study in the Three Kingdoms, how can you not understand loneliness if you are a hero?" At the end of the Eastern Ha