Faith _Translated from Power Analysis「权力分析」 (Ch. 7.1) [Author’s self-translation]

Faith is an essential requirement and a fundamental need intrinsic to humans as spiritual beings. Because humans possess consciousness, and will is an inherent component of consciousness—its origin and core—humans need to live in the process of fulfilling their will. In other words, humans need to live in hope. Consequently, faith arises. Faith is the hope humans create for themselves. The significance of this hope for humans does not lie in the necessity or the objective likelihood of achieving the goal, but precisely in this hope itself.Faith serves as humanity's spiritual pillar—a systematic, complete, and independently existing ideology. It assimilates and integrates elements of human consciousness such as knowledge, emotions, ideals, convictions, and morality, forming an organic whole. Not only does it provide purpose and direction for human life, but it also supplies principles for conduct and spiritual fortitude, ensuring humans eternally dwell in hope while fulfilling their multifaceted spiritual needs. Faith is a human necessity and simultaneously a political imperative, for a society requires shared faith to maintain cohesion. As the administration tasked with governing and serving society, politics ought to cultivate and guide public faith. This constitutes both the proper duty of politics and a service to politics itself, functioning as a vital means to promote political stability.