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Al Gore: An Inconvenient Truth (2006) / A Truth Hard to Ignore

History of Science & Scholarship2006.11.21
Al Gore: An Inconvenient Truth (2006) / A Truth Hard to Ignore
Al Gore An Inconvenient Truth Highly recommend this film. A documentary about global warming. Starring former U.S. Vice President Al Gore (the same one who ran against George W. Bush back then). It’s deeply shocking. Even though I already had some awareness of the environmental crisis, I was still very shaken. For some people who remain unmoved by the environmental crisis, or who keep speaking in vague and equivocal terms, it is truly “their duty” to watch this film. Screenshot: the upper line shows changes in the level of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere over the past 650,000 years, as examined through Antarctic permafrost ice cores, while the lower…
book reading notes environment responsibility
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Nov 21, 2006
Film and Television Appreciation Midterm Assignment

Life & Notes2006.11.17
Film and Television Appreciation Midterm Assignment
Midterm Assignment for Film Appreciation A、“Request for Feedback” Questions: 1. Is the difficulty and depth of this course appropriate? Is there enough knowledge content? Please give examples. I feel the difficulty is appropriate. As for the depth, since I don’t have much else to study as a point of comparison, it’s hard to say. Through this course I learned a great deal about the artistic and technical aspects of film, and came to understand that film, as the “seventh art” and as a kind of “culture,” is something very special and important. Compared with the vast topic of film art, the “knowledge content” a general elective course can provide is…
book reading culture notes art
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Nov 17, 2006
Some Loose Thoughts on “Democracy”

Culture & Public Commentary2006.11.15
Some Loose Thoughts on “Democracy”
This piece is something I wrote out of a sudden feeling, but it was written in fragments over several days when my thoughts were not flowing smoothly, so the structure is a mess; the basic ideas, however, do not go much beyond a high-school level. I am just writing casually. Since entering university, I have very rarely discussed politics, and yet this was precisely the subject of the most heated arguments during class breaks in high school. For the past few years I have kept saying: “Political philosophy is deep water…” What I mean is that my energy is limited, and I am neither able nor daring enough to wade…
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Nov 15, 2006
Neil Postman: Amusing Ourselves to Death, translated by Zhang Yan, Guangxi Normal University Press, 2004

AI & the Future of Technology2006.11.11
Neil Postman: Amusing Ourselves to Death, translated by Zhang Yan, Guangxi Normal University Press, 2004
In buying books and reading books, there often turn up certain experiences that can be explained as “mystical”: when, during a certain period, I have been thinking about some questions, then one day I suddenly wander into a bookstore and find a certain book in a spot I usually seldom pay attention to; I buy it on all sorts of other impulses, and when I bring it home and browse through it, I slap the table and say, “Isn’t this exactly what I’ve been wanting to say?” As if the book had been written by me in the past, and some kind of revelatory power had led me to find…
book reading notes media book review
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Nov 11, 2006
What Day Is November 10?

Life & Notes2006.11.10
What Day Is November 10?
November 10 is marked in the almanac, in large type, as “World Youth Day.” China’s Youth Day is May 4, obviously commemorating the May Fourth Movement. So where did World Youth Day come from? I looked it up online and found nothing but “a Catholic religious gathering founded by Pope John Paul II in 1984.” “This festival was created to reverse the tendency of young people with Catholic faith to drift away from the Church.” But this Youth Day is not the one we mean today. With just a little careful looking, one can tell that this Catholic gathering is actually held at different times every year, and there is…
everyday life faith religion
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Nov 10, 2006
A Supplement on “Preserving Common Ground While Seeking Differences”

Philosophy & Thought2006.11.08
A Supplement on “Preserving Common Ground While Seeking Differences”
Today, in the course on globalization issues, the topic of dialogue among civilizations happened to come up, and I went ahead and advocated my own position of preserving commonality while seeking difference. There were many issues raised in the discussion. I’ll make a few supplementary remarks here. I acknowledge that diversity is a reality. But in what sense is it a reality? On the level of ontology, differences are certainly prior to dialogue; the fact of plural coexistence already existed long before plural dialogue got underway. But that is the ontological level—what about the level of knowledge? From the epistemic point of view, those differences may be known to us,…
philosophy culture discussion pursuit
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Nov 8, 2006
A Discussion of the Question of Abolishing Traditional Chinese Medicine

History of Science & Scholarship2006.11.08
A Discussion of the Question of Abolishing Traditional Chinese Medicine
Again, this is a comment posted on Professor Liu’s blog: http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/485ea879010005nw Whether Chinese medicine is science, and what kind of science it is, is a major issue in the philosophy of technology, and it always deserves serious thought. Let me now post some preliminary discussion (there was already some discussion in last semester’s Introduction to Philosophy of Science course assignment), Neither Chinese medicine nor Western medicine is “science”; they are “technology,” after all. The technology of medicine is very special indeed, and in the West it too has sources and traditions different from those of science. Medicine exists to cure illness; it is not human biology, not a science pursued…
science philosophy of science pluralism Galileo
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Nov 8, 2006
When the Fisherman Meets the Shepherd

Life & Notes2006.11.08
When the Fisherman Meets the Shepherd
Occasionally I write some words that make no sense at all. Literati and recluses of old have always had a special fondness for “retiring to the mountains and forests.” Though I hardly count as a man of letters, in recent years I too have developed an increasingly strong hankering for seclusion and withdrawal from the world. Of course, I am still young, and have not even yet stepped into this “world”; how could I talk about escaping it? It is only idle fancy. I will always have to go wild in this world for a while, and only after I have played to my heart’s content will I go in…
philosophy everyday life China faith
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Nov 8, 2006
Preserving Common Ground, Seeking Difference—A Pluralist View of Dialogue

Philosophy & Thought2006.11.07
Preserving Common Ground, Seeking Difference—A Pluralist View of Dialogue
Keeping the Common While Seeking the Different “Seek common ground while reserving differences” is a good phrase. When the various parties differ in position and judgment, one can first set aside hostility, consider those claims on which everyone agrees, cooperate first, and then gradually negotiate the differences. This attitude is very important in many practical activities that require cooperation, and especially necessary for urgent issues such as ecological protection. However, “seeking common ground while reserving differences” is not enough to capture the attitude toward exchange held by pluralism. It is a very good attitude for cooperation, but not quite the best attitude for dialogue. The pluralist view of dialogical coexistence…
philosophy culture China discussion
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Nov 7, 2006
[Eng.] McGrath: Introduction to Christianity, translated by Ma Shulin and Sun Yi, Peking University Press, 2003

Philosophy & Thought2006.11.05
[Eng.] McGrath: Introduction to Christianity, translated by Ma Shulin and Sun Yi, Peking University Press, 2003
It’s been a long time since I last wrote a reading note… I don’t even know whether lately I’ve been lazy, decadent, irritable, depressed, fallen, or just down in the dumps… On the one hand, I’ve been reading much less, and when I do read I can’t be bothered to jot down any notes or impressions; at most I just use a highlighter to mark things directly in the book, sigh…… This is a book worth recommending. The author of this book is the same person who wrote *An Introduction to Science and Religion*. The book is not thick, and in four parts it introduces the core of Christianity (Jesus),…
book reading notes faith religion
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Nov 5, 2006

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