Keep the Dignity of Life

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      The one who keeps his own personal dignity knows that he should respect others’ personal dignity. Likewise，if you insult someone, you do the same to all human beings and also yourself.

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        Being a member of the human society, we should be virtuous. While doing something, we should be efficient. Keeping one’s morality is for the sake of one’s conscience, while keeping efficiency of doing things is responsible for one’s life.

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        Among all the fundamental values of human beings, one has long been forgotten. It is to be virtuous

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         In the western human traditional culture/ In the humanist tradition of the west, personal dignity is an important notion. Concord’s comment that human beings are ends is the classical demonstration of this idea. According to this notion, everyone is a spiritual existence with personal dignity and they cannot be used as means. For a lot of people of our country, this notion is so strange that they only take themselves as means for interests. And they also take others as means for interests. They never think others and also themselves as spiritual existences with dignity.

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         There is a kind of people in the world with no sense of personal dignity and they are impervious to reason. I don’t know how to deal with these people because I believe that a sense of dignity is the single basis for communication among people and the only weapon to fight against others is to keep oneself reasonable. It’s convincing that these people are infinitely far away from me in terms of biological relations.

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          The meaning of life is determined by the conditions of one’s spiritual life. The worldly meaning, i.e. happiness, depends on the richness of one’s spirit, while the holy meaning rests with the nobleness of one’s spirit.

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          Being a member of the human society, we should keep a fundamental confidence i.e. the confidence of being equal to all other members. Under czarism, this kind of confidence is doomed to suffer universal destruction. When all the people are forced to kneel down, the only one who still stands has become a god.

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        One should be true to himself. And this truth is nowhere to be found in the world. It is an attitude of us toward the world. It is that we finally find the belief and criterion for our life.