SAE · The Second Enlightenment · Paper 2: For Oneself / SAE 二次启蒙论 第二篇: 为己
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: SAE · The Second Enlightenment · Paper 2. This record holds the Chinese final text (v1.0) and the English edition (v1.0). The English edition is an independent rewrite, not a translation. It sets out propositions W8–W14, numbered continuously across the series. Abstract (English) The "interest" of Paper 1 is the share of self-interest: reckoning whether a thing pays for oneself. This paper separates it from something else, which it calls being for oneself: a person planning for himself, protecting the share he cannot let go of, which is exactly the side on which he is an end. Self-interest is calculation; being for oneself is that share itself, and that share has no equivalent. Whether what drives a person in doing something is being for himself or self-interest, only he can see by looking back; what direction the thing carries toward others can be read from its structure, and being for oneself does not guarantee that it is not colonization. Violation is another line: crossing a person's inviolable boundary, decided by structure, not by motive and not by feeling. Not every harm is a violation; losing out in a competition is not in itself a violation, while an agreement such as a non-compete takes away a person's very choice of where to go. Being for oneself is no exemption for crossing the line. 摘要(中文) 第一篇说的“利益”,是利己那一份:算一件事对自己划不划算。这一篇把它和另一样东西分开,叫为己:一个人为自己打算,护着自己放不下的那一份,正是自己是目的的那一面。利己是算计,为己是自己那一份本身;这一份没有等价物。一个人做一件事的驱动是为己还是利己,只有他自己回看得到;这件事对别人带着什么方向,可以照结构读,为己不保证它不是殖民。侵是另一条线:越过一个人不可越的那条线,由结构定,不由动机定,也不由感受定。伤害不都是侵;在竞争里落选本身不构成侵,竞业那样的约定拿走的,却是一个人往哪里去的那个选。为己不豁免越线。 Sources. Renderings from Chinese are the author's own. 来源:英文版的中文引语为作者自译。 Related identifiers Relation Identifier Resource References 10.5281/zenodo.19037566 One's Own Law: The SAE Critique of Ethics and Morality References 10.5281/zenodo.20262737 The Institutional Architecture of Mixed Reality (SAE Moral Law, Paper 9) References 10.5281/zenodo.21212595 On the Limitation and Violation of Basic Rights (SAE Rights, Paper 5) References 10.5281/zenodo.22970758 Anti-Colonization (SAE Action Theory, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.22970777 Not Legislating for Others (SAE Action Theory, Paper 6) References 10.5281/zenodo.23270384 Not Crossing the Line (SAE Institution Theory, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.23545047 What a Relation Is, and What It Is Not (SAE Relation Theory, Paper 1) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874133 What an Economy Is Not (SAE Political Economy, Prequel) References 10.5281/zenodo.24021385 A Way Out, a Way Forward (SAE Political Economy, Special Study) These 9 identifiers are the 9 DOIs in the reference lists of the two texts (works of this system); the two lists carry the same set. This series The text cites these papers of this series by number (Prequel, Papers 1 to 7), not in the reference lists. Add them as References too if the record should link to them. Relation Identifier Resource References 10.5281/zenodo.24030393 What the Second Enlightenment Is Not (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Prequel) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030395 Is It Worth It? (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 1) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030401 Reading Structure, Not Minds (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 3) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030409 One's Good, Written in Advance (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 4) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030411 Calling It Worth It (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 5) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030415 At the Door (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 7)
Author: Qin, Han
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225451824