So, we read French philosophers, who have a delicate expression of emotions, an intuitive response to the current environment they face, and even regard this response as a universal truth, and then apply it to the world.

For British philosophers, however, this is not the case. They emphasize more on an empirical principle and on advancing our understanding of the world in an empirical way, in other words, in a way that can discover effects. Therefore, it aims to accumulate knowledge.

British philosophers aim to accumulate knowledge and constantly emphasize how we can expand human knowledge to make our understanding of "knowledge" more accurate and comprehensive. This is what British philosophers are trying to do; For French philosophers, their job is to express their understanding of the world unidirectionally and to spread this understanding to all parts of the world into universal principles; For German philosophers, they emphasize more on how to grasp the close relationship between us and society within a specific social context.

So, let's say that Western philosophy is not a monolithic entity. You can't say that Western philosophy has a common feature. I say that Western philosophy has no common feature, and there is nothing that Western philosophy has in common. You can't talk about a common feature of Western philosophy. We can only say that they have similarities. The similarities between the cultural traditions of different countries' philosophies constitute the characteristics of the entire Western philosophy.

However, it is unimaginable to say that they share a common characteristic that almost every philosopher follows.

This is different from Chinese culture. When we talk about Chinese culture, of course, we mainly refer to the traditional Chinese culture based on Confucianism. It has a common feature, but it is difficult to say in the West that there is a unified philosophical tradition. Although they come from ancient Greece, they have been separated since the separation of ancient Greek philosophy, especially after the evolution from the Middle Ages to modern philosophy. You suddenly realize that you do not know Western philosophy because Western philosophy is no longer as rigid as before. It has become very diverse and complex, and can be said to present us with a rich and colorful world of thought.

So, in this sense, when we talk about Western philosophy, we must distinguish which part of Western philosophy we are talking about, which philosophical tradition we are talking about, and which philosopher's ideas we are talking about?

So, when it comes to the ideas of different philosophers, they will have their own distinct characteristics.

It can be said that the influence of Wolfe's philosophy on the latter is significant, so Hegel gave a high evaluation of Wolfe in his "Lectures on the History of Philosophy". Of course, this evaluation is not only aimed at Wolf. He said, 'When you master a science in your own language, we can say that this science belongs to this nation, so this is the most necessary for philosophy.'.

This is a famous quote from Hegel that we are familiar with, "Because thought precisely has such a link, that is, it should belong to self-consciousness, and thoughts should be expressed in their own language, so that these concepts that are directly related to consciousness are inherent to themselves, and they deal with themselves, not with an external thing

This is why Germans are confident in philosophy, and their language is also mixed, more of a kind of spoken language, but its spoken language is a mixture of several ethnic groups, so they express themselves very fluently, their own nation is easy to understand, and people in other languages have a big head.

A nation can speak philosophy in its own language, and this idea originated from the philosopher we saw earlier, Thomasius, because he was the first philosopher to oppose using Latin to discuss philosophy and advocated for philosophy to be spoken in German for the first time.

In fact, in the 16th and 17th centuries, not only philosophers, but most scholars wrote in Latin. By the 18th century, more philosophers began to use French, so French was seen as replacing Latin and becoming the "official" language of Europe. The official quotation marks indicate that all scholars believe that using this language to express ideas is the most fashionable and understandable way for people to understand and accept them.

And the language of Germany, which we understand as Germanic language, is actually a combination of mixed languages. It does not have a single Germanic language, but is a collection of many minority languages, because it was originally a highland language, which is one of the main sources of Germanic language. However, it also integrated the languages of other ethnic groups to form Germanic language.

However, such a mixed language is difficult to be seen as an officially accepted language in the cultural context of Europe as a whole. So, German has always been seen as a language that is more derived from rural farmers. This idea went to Heidegger, who said, 'I like to write in German because I think German is the most suitable language for farmers to write.'.

Heidegger always referred to himself as a farmer, believing himself to be the son of the earth. Therefore, he was filled with emotions towards the earth, and he believed that my philosophy was written for the earth. Only those who are ultimately grounded in the earth can truly understand what my philosophy is saying.

In Heidegger's words, if you stand high and far away from the earth, you will certainly not understand my philosophy. So, my philosophy is written for farmers to listen to, so I must use a farmer's language to express my philosophy clearly. Therefore, German is seen as a more vulgar language to draw an equal sign, it is a primitive language that has fallen from the soil.

I think Heidegger was already a figure in the mid-20th century. Since he spoke like this, it means that in the 20th century, people understood German as a European language that could not be considered sophisticated, inferior to French or even English. Therefore, Germans, who advocate their own nation, must use their own language. They firmly oppose the invasion of German by other foreign languages. Even when they speak philosophy, they prefer to speak German rather than French or English on other occasions in Europe.

Of course, this shows a sense of pride in their language, but at the same time it also indicates a lack of confidence. If you want confidence, you won't insist on using your own language in any situation. For philosophers in the 18th century, being able to propose for the first time that philosophy should speak German was already a remarkable idea.

So, after Thomasius proposed this idea, he directly used German to write in Wolfe. Therefore, the language of Leibniz that we know today is written in Latin. Only after Wolfe did we see the philosophy of German writing. Therefore, Hegel had such a positive evaluation of Wolfe.

Of course, we also emphasize that philosophy should speak Chinese. Some people who do not understand the historical background may find it strange to say "let philosophy speak Chinese" because we are using Chinese to speak philosophy, and using "Chinese to speak philosophy" and "let philosophy speak Chinese" are two completely different concepts.

Don't think that we are now using Chinese to talk about philosophy, that's not the same thing. Being able to let philosophy speak Chinese means that we have infiltrated the Chinese unique way of thinking into the general understanding of philosophy, so that when people around the world talk about philosophy, they must talk about it and use Chinese from China, which is called letting philosophy speak Chinese.

You cannot achieve this. Today, the main language of Western philosophy is expressed in three languages: English, German, and French.

These three languages can be said to be the three ways in which philosophy can express itself. We cannot say that philosophy can only be spoken in Chinese, just like many philosophies today are expressed in English. However, when we speak philosophy in English, it is still different from whether philosophy is really speaking English.

In fact, in the entire history of modern philosophy, which language is truly used to analyze and express philosophy is the most authentic philosophy. We can clearly tell everyone that there is only one language, and that is "German". So, studying philosophy requires going to Germany. Without going to Germany, you cannot understand what philosophy is doing.

So, when you go to England, you can't feel what philosophers are doing. You can only feel the feelings of some philosophers. When you go to France, you can only feel the feelings of some writers. Only in Germany can you feel the power of philosophy. Therefore, after Mr. Gao Xuanyang wrote this book, if he wrote a book review, the title would be "Germans are born philosophers".

What is innate?

It refers to its language itself, its way of thinking, and its incorporation of philosophical methods. The construction and expression of its language are a philosophical expression. So, from Wolf to Hegel, they successfully made philosophy speak German.

Until now, we still have many truly creative ideas, which do not come from Britain or the United States. American philosophy is the least creative, and it is a kind of popularization, mainly an introductory way to tell you how to use it. It is not creative, and the truly creative philosophy is in Germany.

So, German thinkers often impress the world's philosophical community by proposing many philosophical ideas, which are important issues that later philosophers continue to discuss. Some of the important German philosophers we are familiar with today, not to mention the classical German philosophy, can be said to be modern philosophy, from Hegel and Nietzsche to Schopenhauer, all the way to Husserl, Heidegger, and even Wittgenstein, as well as the philosophers we are familiar with such as Habermas. Their philosophical penetration and originality far exceed that of many other philosophers.