Year: 2007

Zhao Lin: “Between God and Newton — A Collection of Zhao Lin’s Lectures (1)”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.08.31
Zhao Lin: “Between God and Newton — A Collection of Zhao Lin’s Lectures (1)”
Zhao Lin: “Between God and Newton—Zhao Lin Lecture Collection (1),” Dongfang Publishing House, May 2007, 21 yuan Zhao Lin is indeed quite good. I hear he has also appeared on the Lecture Room program; that kind of venue really ought to have more talks like this. This collection gathers lectures Zhao Lin delivered at universities around China. The audience was neither students in the philosophy department nor ordinary TV viewers, but rather people with a certain knowledge background who enjoy thinking through questions—or, to put it another way, ordinary university students. Taken as a whole, these talks are essentially popular introductions to philosophy and Christianity, the most elementary sort of…
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2007年8月31日
Cooking, cooking~

Life & Notes2007.08.30
Cooking, cooking~
Today I finally cooked for myself for the first time~ I said I was going to learn to cook during summer vacation, but I really didn’t learn much at all; at most, when Mom or Grandma was cooking, I just watched from the side, and I didn’t even do that very many times. Anyway, cooking isn’t something all that hard, so I’ll just figure it out myself when the time comes~ Today I finally did it myself, so let’s start with something simple: washing rice and cooking rice doesn’t seem to have much difficulty. It looks like I controlled the water-to-rice ratio pretty well too; the rice came out neither…
everyday life China tradition
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2007年8月30日
Reflections on the Social Practice Project “The Preservation of Traditional Culture and Its Relationship with Tourism”

Life & Notes2007.08.30
Reflections on the Social Practice Project “The Preservation of Traditional Culture and Its Relationship with Tourism”
Our social practice project was themed “The Protection of Traditional Culture and Its Relationship with Tourism.” With this question in mind, we examined places such as the ancient city of Pingyao and Mount Wutai in Shanxi. Below, I will mainly connect my impressions from the visit and investigation of the ancient city of Pingyao to offer my views on this topic. First, if we look at this theme more concretely, it gives rise to three main questions: first, what is tradition? Second, how should it be protected? Third, what is the significance of tourism—after all, is tourism to be developed in order to protect tradition, or is tradition to be…
everyday life culture history tradition
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2007年8月30日
Platonic Love

Philosophy & Thought2007.08.29
Platonic Love
Someone may ask, “Do you believe in Platonic love?” Questions like that are baffling. Is it really so hard to believe that Platonic love exists? Only the childish sort of person who imagines that everyone thinks exactly as he does would disbelieve it. Since we can believe in the existence of all kinds of unreasonable people, and even believe in the existence of all kinds of perverse feelings, why would we not believe in the existence of a certain kind of love? The question really worth asking is, “Do you approve of / recognize / long for Platonic love?” Of course, before that, we also need to make clear what…
philosophy Plato
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2007年8月29日
Bits and Pieces, Episode 1

Philosophy & Thought2007.08.29
Bits and Pieces, Episode 1
Thinking of things in passing from time to time, it seems not bad to jot down a few stray words and phrases. However, if I were to post every little paragraph as a separate entry, my blog would inevitably become cluttered and fragmentary, so I will wait until each collection of stray words has accumulated more than a thousand characters before posting it. Below is the first entry. l If one gives up Darwinism and believes that survival and reproduction are not necessarily the most important, or even the only important things. Then, for a nation or a culture, seeking to live and survive is certainly important, but by no…
philosophy science faith pluralism
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2007年8月29日
[U.S.] Paul Woodruff: “Reverence—A Forgotten Virtue” (Reverence) —★

Philosophy & Thought2007.08.29
[U.S.] Paul Woodruff: “Reverence—A Forgotten Virtue” (Reverence) —★
[US] Paul Woodruff: Reverence—A Forgotten Virtue, translated by Lin Bin and Ma Hongqi, Commercial Press, July 2007, 14 yuan—★ I personally highly recommend this book! The topic of this book is very much to my taste: “Reverence”—that is, what we have all along been talking about as “敬畏” (awe and reverence). The author discusses Reverence from the standpoint of virtue ethics—that is, from the perspective of what I have all along been calling virtue ethics—which is quite to the point, and says many things I have long wanted to say but have not yet said. I also very much agree with the author’s use of Reverence to interpret the Confucian…
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2007年8月29日
At Last, All the Various Delays Have Been Settled

Life & Notes2007.08.27
At Last, All the Various Delays Have Been Settled
All Kinds of Procras——————tination Have Finally Been Resolved This summer, all sorts of things that should have been finished long ago, or should have been started long ago, kept getting delayed… delayed… First is my magnificent thesis. In the plan, by this moment it should have reached the final-draft stage, but the reality is that the reading project has not even systematically begun yet… I can only buckle down in the next week or two! (Of course… even during the period of idleness, there was not absolutely no progress; at least I did think about some questions…) This matter was delayed for about a month and a half. Second is…
everyday life education Peking University report
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2007年8月27日
This Issue’s Music: The Legend of Sword and Fairy Original Soundtrack, Battle Music

Life & Notes2007.08.26
This Issue’s Music: The Legend of Sword and Fairy Original Soundtrack, Battle Music
I first saw people playing the earliest Chinese-language 95 version of *Xianjian* at someone else’s home, and afterward I bought the just-released 98 “Romantic Edition” myself. *Xianjian* is the only RPG I’ve played no fewer than three times (I can’t remember exactly how many times), and even now I’m still willing to play through it again. The most recent time I replayed *Xianjian* was when the TV drama adaptation aired and I simply couldn’t stand it anymore, so I played it again. Let me stress once more: absolutely do not watch the *Xianjian* TV drama, or if you do, do not connect it with *The Legend of Sword and Fairy*…… …
everyday life China music anime
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2007年8月26日
A One-Month Running Account of Stock Trading

Life & Notes2007.08.24
A One-Month Running Account of Stock Trading
Before I knew it, I had been dabbling in stocks for more than a month, and a summer vacation that ought to have been the busiest of all is now clearly on the verge of being wasted away in vain (of course, not because of stock trading). And as my life rhythm returns to normal, and my stock-trading ideas grow increasingly mature, I will no longer spend more time researching stocks. So I’ll just casually jot down here my reflections from this past month of stock trading: Stock trading counts as yet another “social practice” I’ve done this summer. Originally, the point of my parents’ letting me trade stocks was…
everyday life economy capitalism practice
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2007年8月24日
On Protecting Tradition and What Tradition Is, and So On

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2007.08.19
On Protecting Tradition and What Tradition Is, and So On
First, I’m reposting a discussion from the Ceiling blog. http://ariela.ycool.com/post.2668095.html Omitted above… mist @ 2007-07-29 10:29 If contemporary people are only preserving tradition, then where are we to create the spirit of our age? Ceiling @ 2007-07-30 00:11 I believe that tradition and creation should, in essence, be continuous. Besides, what is being shouted about most fervently right now is the preservation of tradition, even more than the creation of spirit…… so I’m chiming in *_^ 古 @ 2007-08-05 21:35 I recommend that Mist listen to a lecture by Wu Guosheng~ Which occasion of “creating the spirit of an age” has not taken preserving tradition as its basis?…
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2007年8月19日