Chinese, Ancient Greek Mythology and 'Human Essence': The Exploration of 'Human Nature' From the Perspective of Information Philosophy

摘要

The issue on "human essence" has always been a hot philosophical issue. Historically, this concept has been newly annotated in different historical periods. The creation of mythology is the first attempt of mankind to pursue their essence. They first imposed their own nature upon gods, and then tried to find the sources and explanations for all their actions. They even imposed their existing political system, differences in gender and status as well as clothing features, and all these attributes of human society to gods. In this means, mankind had gods created themselves and made themselves children and successors of gods and further intended to replace gods to take the control over everything in nature in the age as gods hide. As a result, human essence and gods were then constructed. The essence of god functions as an intermediary between mankind and the outside world (society and nature), while human essence is "sons of gods". At this time, the most valuable initial attempt of mankind in defining human essence is that they began to learn to construct intermediary and use intermediary to construct and define themselves. Wu Kun's philosophy of information has opened up a new ground in philosophic thinking; so at the same time, it also provides a new perspective to interpret "human essence". "Human essence" was actually formed through multidimensional construction. In addition to the multidimensional construction, there were the dual construction of existence and non-existence as well as the combination of ego, id and superego under arrow of time.