有限与无限的对立与统一
有限与无限的对立和统一
（The Opposition and Unify of finite and infinite）
——谈生论死
——talking about the life and death
王康
Wang Kang
1. 生与死是自然法则之父所生的一对的孪生兄弟。两者是一种相辅相成的共生关系，但却又是一对短暂与永恒的矛盾体。而这对矛盾体是永远无法调和的。
Life and death are (a pair of) twin brothers created by the father of natural law. They are symbiotic and complementary, but are a paradox of ephemerality and eternity (durability) which is inharmonious (incompatible) in perpetuity.
人类应该是远在史前时期之前就深知自然法则赋予自己的这种无法摆脱的宿命了。
Human should learn this inextricable destiny endowed by natural law long before prehistoric times.
尽管如此，人类探究生与死的奥秘，探寻如何突破生命极限使之获得永脚步一刻也没有停歇过。
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Still and all, people never stopped to delve into the life and death, and to explore the method of breaking through the limit.
2. 然而因受挫于严酷的现实世界，人类只有寄希望于自己富于想象的精神世界了。各种不同宗教当中所描绘的彼岸世界就是人类丰富想象力的精神文化产物。
However, becau of the frustration and harshness in the real world, human beings can only hope for their imaginative spiritual world which is regarded as the “other world” with the description of assorted religions.女娲补天的意思
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不过各种宗教的彼岸世界不尽相同。基督教把彼岸设在了天上，皈依基督就意味着皈依者有可能获得天堂门票。在天堂里，愉悦的彼
岸生活正等待着他的到来并经久不衰。然而前提条件是，在末日审判到来之时，上帝在根据逝者生前的行为举止做出最终裁决时，逝者一定要得到上帝的眷顾。
But the disparate religions have their own “other shores”such as the Christians allocate the “other world” in heaven. The conversion to Christianity indicates that the convert stand a chance of getting a ticket of heaven where the joyous life is awaiting him enduringly only if he is blesd by God when the final ruling is given according to his behaviors before Armageddon.
3、道教把彼岸也设在了天上，那里是玉皇大帝陛下及其家眷居住的地方，同时也是他在仙界的臣工们的协助下管理天庭以及下界俗世的地方。
At the same time, the “other world” in Taoism is also t in heaven, where the Jade Emperor lives with family, and administrates heaven and earth with the assistance of celestial ministers.
凡夫俗子有望像道家神话中的八仙那样成为神仙享有长寿。但是必须是在经过多年的自我艰苦的修炼之后，才有可能被神榜提名。Ordinary people are hopefully longevous when become immortal as the Eight Immortals, and can be nominated in the Spirit Tablet only after a painstaking lf-cultivation for ages
4.佛教不同于基督教与道教，它的彼岸世界是建立在其生死轮回
三世理论之中的。
Differing from Christianism and Taoism, Buddhism…s other world is t in the “Three Phad Theory”(three generation's theory) of reincarnation cycles (Metempsychosis).
依据佛教的这一理论，一个个体生命所经历的时间被分为三个阶段：前世，现世以及来世。任何一个个体对其前世与来世都一无所知，唯一清楚的就是自己的今生今世。逝者的彼岸生活将是在西方
净土或叫做极乐世界里，在哪里幸福无极无疆。
In accordance with the theory, the past life, cular life and afterlife are three phas of individual?s lifetime who know nothing about his past life and afterlife but his cular life. The other world of the dead is in the western or the Pure Land where they happy endlessly.
5.无论某一宗教将其彼岸世界构建于何处，这或许都有助于降低甚至于完全消除人们对死亡的害怕或恐惧。自古以来，无论是神学家或是无神论学者都一直在著书立说，谈生论死，鼓励人们直面死亡。在西方历史上许多哲学家或思想家为我们留下了大量关于生死的精彩论述。
Wherever the other world is allocated by the religions, it might conduce to diminish and eliminate human’s fear toward death. Since ancient times, not only the theologists but also atheists were writing books, talking about the life and death and inspiring people to confront death. In the west history, massive splendid comments about life and death are left to us by the philosophers and ideologists.
以下是一些精选名言：
Following are some lective quotes:
1). 我决不肯背义求全而屈服于任何人，我不怕死，我宁死不屈。
——苏格拉底，参阅柏拉图：《苏格拉底的申辩》
双警家庭I would never renounce honor and strive for existence to submit to anyone. I don?t fear death and I would rather die than submit.
——Socrates, refer to Plato: Socrates’ defend
2). 你们如顺从肉体活着必要死，若靠着圣灵治死身体的恶行必要活。
——保罗，《罗马书8章，
13节》
If it must die after live when it is obedient to flesh, then
the rascality which kills the flesh must live.
——Paul,Romans 8:13
3). 如果有神，那么离开人世就不再是一桩可怕的事情。
——奥勒留
《沉思录》
If gods exist, then passing away is not a terrible thing any
more.
——Aurelius, Meditations
4). 如果我们知道如何恰当而平静地生的话，我们就将知道如何
格力空调扇恰当而平静地死。
——蒙泰涅《论文集》
If we know how should live properly and tranquilly, then we
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腰肌劳损的症状有哪些would learn how should die properly and tranquilly.
——Montigne,Memoir
5)…生命本身即具有死亡的种子。——黑格尔《小逻辑》
Life itlf is ed of death. ——Hegal,The logic of Hegal
6). 死是最坚定的共产主义者，它使百万富翁与乞丐，皇帝与
无产者都一律平等。
——费尔巴哈《从人本学观点论
不死问题》
Death is the most determined communist which equalize
millionaire and beggar; emperor and proletarian.
——Feuerbach, discuss athanasia from the point of humanism.
7). 我们无所惧于死亡，正如太阳无所畏于黑夜一样。
——叔本华《作为意志和表
象的世界》
We don?t fear death as the sun doesn?t dread the dark. ——Schophehauer. World of Volition and Prentation
8). 每个人都欠大自然一笔账，每个人都得还清账——一句
话，死亡是自然的，不可否认的，无法避免的。
——弗洛伊德《目前对战争与死亡的看法》
Everyone owns the nature and needs to pay back——namely, the death is natural, deniable and inevitable.
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——Freud,Views Towards the War and Death 6. 与倾向于寻求解释生与死本质的西方学者相比，我们中国人似
乎更喜欢注重生与死的意义、价值与社会效应。列举如下的是从浩瀚的中国经典中轻而易举地挑选出来的代表性警句与诗句：Compared with the western scholars who are inclined to explain t he esnce of birth and death, the Chine pay more attention to the meaning, value and social effects of birth and death. The foll owing ntences are the reprentative epigrams and vers tha t can be easily cho from the vast China classics:
