什么是物的意义?——庄子、海德格尔与我们的对话

Zhuangtzu's thoutht about thing strikes a chord-response in Heidegger. They both think that the meaning of matter is uselessness, and that it is unnecessary for man to care about it. Nevertheless there is still a great difference between Zhuangtzu and Heidegger. Zhuangtzu interprets the meaning of matter as Nature (Tao), and Heidegger conceives of it as World(Poetry). In contemporary information society, because of the emergence of a new kind of matter, namely "virtual world", we have to reexamine the meaning of matter and distinguish the virtual world from the real world. In terms of this, we can make a distinction between matter and human, and let matter be matter and human be human.