A marginal note in the fourth issue of “Philosophical Research” in 1965
(1965)


In 1965, Issue 2 of “Philosophical Research” featured Zhao Jibin’s work, “A New Exploration of the Analects.”
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The Confucian school is replete with contradictions.
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This issue also published Zhao Jibin’s article, “On the Problem of the Formation Process of the Categories ‘One’ and ‘Two’,” which constitutes Chapter Two of the author’s preliminary manuscript for the book “Interpretation of ‘One’ and ‘Two’.” The book traces the historical development of the terms “one,” “two,” and their related derivatives as they appear in the Classic texts and the writings of the Masters, examining the struggle and evolutionary patterns between pre-Qin dialectical and metaphysical worldviews. It is divided into eleven chapters.
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Zhao Jibin was, at the time, a professor at the Central Party School of the CPC.
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“A New Exploration of the Analects,” authored by Zhao Jibin and published by the People’s Publishing House in 1959.
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This is a marginal note written by Mao Zedong on page 44 of the fourth issue of “Philosophical Research” in 1965, above the title of Zhao Jibin’s article, “The Ideological Origins of Confucius’s Doctrine of ‘Harmony Yet Difference’ and the Logical Outcome of His Theory of Reconciling Contradictions.” The article addresses six key issues:
First, the transformation of the meanings of the characters “harmony” and “sameness” in light of the evolving class struggles at the end of the Spring and Autumn period;
second, the new semantic interpretations of “harmony” and “sameness” found in the thought of You Ruo and Fan Chi;
third, the class-struggle implications of the concepts of “appointing the worthy” and “rule by virtue,” as revealed through the phrase “the people are not compliant”;
fourth, the principle of reconciling contradictions embodied in the notion of “benevolence” and the methodological approach of “governing all under heaven with one unifying principle”;
fifth, the opposition between two contrasting perspectives on contradiction—namely, “to learn one thing and understand ten” versus “to learn one thing and understand two”; and
sixth, the nascent seeds of dissent within the Confucian school and the logical trajectory of the ideological struggles therein. This article forms Chapter Three of the author’s preliminary draft of “Interpretation of ‘One’ and ‘Two’.”


In 1965, Mao Zedong was together with Wang Hairong.