American zoologists once did an experiment: they stuffed sodium chloride tablets into mutton and fed them to wolves. After eating mutton, the wolf suffered from indigestion and vomiting for a short time, which was very painful. The wolf who tasted the pain lost his appetite for mutton sheep and ate other meat instead. Because the mother wolf eats what food, her milk tastes like what food, and once the wolf changes her diet, it will also affect her cubs. After the wolf changed his diet, zoologists domesticated it and used it to protect the sheep. Wolves are strong, good at running, loyal to their duties and can drive away stray sheep without hesitation. When a sheep sees a wolf, just as a mouse sees a cat, it obeys the wolf's mercy. In the wild, the wolf's main food is voles and other harmful animals, so taming wolves and herding sheep indirectly protect forests and grasslands, which is conducive to ecological balance.
Analysis: This case shows that-
1, people are not passive and powerless before the law, but can play their own subjective initiative to understand and apply the law. Zoologists know the eating habits of wolves, so they began to change their eating habits, and then trained them to make wolves change from eating sheep to herding sheep. This is the performance of understanding and applying the law to benefit mankind.
2. Connection exists objectively, but people can change the state of things and establish new concrete connections according to their inherent connections. Zoologists prove this by changing the eating habits of wolves, so that wolves can eat harmful animals, such as voles, instead of sheep.
3. As one of the basic forms of practice, scientific experiment plays an extremely important role. Scientific experiments can improve people's understanding and transformation of nature, and enable people to obtain material information from nature more reasonably.
Two or three fires
In the cold winter, a group of people lit a fire. The fire is blazing and people are warm. A person thought: it's so cold, I must never leave the fire, or I'll freeze to death. Everyone else thought so, so this pile of firewood was quickly put out and all the people froze to death.
Another group of people lit a fire. One of them thinks that if everyone just keeps warm and doesn't check the firewood, the fire will go out sooner or later, and so will others. As a result, everyone went to collect firewood, and no one kept warm. They all froze to death on the way to collect firewood, and finally the fire was put out because there was no firewood.
Another group of people lit the third fire. Not all the people gathered around the fire to keep warm, and not all of them went to collect firewood. Instead, they made a system of taking turns heating and collecting firewood. Half heating, half collecting firewood, so everyone went to collect firewood, and everyone got warm. The fire burned brightly because it got enough firewood, and the fire and life continued into the next spring.
Analysis:
1, materialist dialectics holds that the connection between the whole and the parts is a form of universal connection of objective things. Their status and role are different. When all the parts form an orderly and reasonable structure, the overall function will be greater than the sum of all the parts' functions. Just like the third fire, the third group used the optimal combination. When dealing with the contradiction between heating and firewood collection, they adopted a rotation system, half heating and half firewood collection, which took care of both the overall interests and the individual interests, taking into account the long-term interests and immediate interests. They chose the best plan to do things and achieved the optimal goal (to keep fire and life alive until the next spring). They must make a wise move. When some parts form a disordered and unhealthy whole, the original performance of each part can't be exerted, the strength is weakened, and even offset each other, so that the overall function is less than the sum of the parts: like the first and second fires and groups, either they only care about heating, no one picks firewood, or they only pick firewood and don't know how to keep warm. In either case, the continuation of fire and life is not the best solution, and it will end in tragedy!
2. Contribution and demand are interrelated and inseparable. To correctly handle the relationship between the two, we should not only create and contribute to society, but also get something from society and get the necessary satisfaction. It is wrong to emphasize one side and deny the other. Like the first group, everyone only knows how to keep warm, but not how to collect firewood. They only know how to take and don't know how to contribute, which separates the relationship between contribution and taking. The second group, however, only knows how to collect firewood: they don't know how to keep warm, but only talk about contribution, not asking for it, which also separates the relationship between contribution and asking for it. The wrong practices of both groups have led to irreparable losses. The third group, that is, talking about contribution and demand, properly handled the relationship between contribution and demand. No wonder their life and fire can last until the next spring!
From the above two examples, we can easily find how important philosophy is to us, which enables us to better understand the world and promote the development and progress of mankind.