Suixuan

Year: 2008

  • Comeback Preview~

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    Comeback Preview~

    Locking the blog was pretty pointless; it didn’t help change my way of life as I had expected. Rather, it has made my life even less regular, and there’s even the danger that it will sap my vitality. By the way, my mood lately has been very complicated, with all kinds of emotions mixed together, but on the whole I’m a bit exhilarated, with a strong urge to write; writing with a pen is no longer enough to vent it all~  And then, hey, even Wu Laoshi has started blogging too, wahahaha~~ wahahahahaha~~  So I’m planning to come back earlier than expected, though it will probably be about a month…

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  • Secluding Myself and Shutting Down the Blog

    Secluding Myself and Shutting Down the Blog
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    Secluding Myself and Shutting Down the Blog

    As of today (such a 222 kind of day), the blog is under lock and key. The time of reopening is undecided. In any case, let everyone first welcome the Olympic Games. Comment replies    huyong 2008-06-25 00:47:56 [reply] Very envious; I very much hope to join you all, and long to receive help!    Gu Du 2008-03-29 21:30:47 [reply] I don’t know the situation in Peking University’s Marxist philosophy, so I can’t make a judgment. Personally, I still don’t see much of a future for the Marxist philosophy circles in China; Marxist philosophy anywhere isn’t going to be all that great. The key is simply which advisor you end…

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  • Why Suixuan Is Not Afraid of Plagiarism

    Why Suixuan Is Not Afraid of Plagiarism
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    Why Suixuan Is Not Afraid of Plagiarism

    Not long after Suixuan first started running, a friend reminded me to be a little careful: academic articles posted there would always inevitably face the risk of plagiarism and theft. More recently, an older fellow student also suggested that I might as well submit more pieces to newspapers, which would both earn a bit of author’s fee and, to some extent, protect copyright. But for me, whether writing for newspapers or submitting papers to magazines, first, it is not commensurate with my present qualifications and level; second, it more or less sacrifices freedom; third, it is unnecessary, because I am neither short of money nor afraid of plagiarism and theft….

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  • Things This Semester

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    Things This Semester

    The graduating thesis is really a minor matter; after all, writing papers has already merged into daily life. The key point is that, for various reasons, this semester I must take 10 credits of natural science courses, and I must also launch a decisive campaign against English. This means that my way of life this semester will definitely no longer be “ordinary”; I’ll have to live in a way I never have before. At first I wanted to take biology as my science course. On the one hand, it might be of some use for my future specialization; on the other hand, it might be a bit easier to get…

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  • The Inertia of the Bystander

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    The Inertia of the Bystander

    On the operation of blogs and the management of BBS forums, the most vexing problem is not that nobody reads, but that those who do read are often willing only to be “audience,” not to participate, and not even willing to leave a single word now and then (such as “great, upvote, dizzy, read, re, omg, orz,” etc.). But it is not that they are uninterested, or simply disdain it. In fact, many people come by frequently to have a look, and some of them will occasionally say “inspiring” (which, after all, is also a form of feedback, albeit an indirect one). But on the whole they are just too…

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  • Philosophy of Media: An Introduction

    Philosophy & Thought

    Philosophy of Media: An Introduction

    Wu Laoshi once mentioned that in the future Xiaogu might perhaps be able to do some specialized research in the philosophy of technology of media; of course, that is something to think about later. Indeed, for me, concern with media is by no means a spur-of-the-moment interest, but a very fundamental, connecting perspective. Wu Laoshi once distinguished between two kinds of “philosophy of technology” (or, more generally, “XX-philosophy”): one is as a departmental philosophy, that is, taking XX as the object of philosophical reflection; the other is as a philosophical character, that is, taking XX as the foundation, direction, or point of departure of the whole of philosophy (in this…

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  • “Love” as the Ultimate Meaning

    “Love” as the Ultimate Meaning
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    “Love” as the Ultimate Meaning

    What is the meaning of asking about the meaning of a thing? Broadly speaking, it is asking why one does this thing. But the purpose of a thing is often very hard to determine: the meaning of eating is to eliminate hunger, or to increase nutrition, or to satisfy taste, or perhaps to serve several purposes at once. At the same time, meaning can be further questioned. For example, if I say eating is for the sake of increasing nutrition, then one can ask again: what is the meaning of increasing nutrition? Continuing to ask about the meaning of increasing nutrition, one might answer that it is for the sake…

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  • What Logic Do We Use in Everyday Discussion?

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    What Logic Do We Use in Everyday Discussion?

    Today I listened to Hu Ge’s “intuitionistic logic.” The first class naturally began with a bit of introduction and overview before moving on to the logical system itself. What I was interested in was the introductory part. Hu Ge works in mathematics, so the philosophical disputes were brushed past in a sentence and did not take up much time. Hu Ge’s sketch of intuitionistic logic was still quite concise and on point: intuitionism is aimed at mathematics, not at everyday communication; in everyday communication, the law of excluded middle remains reliable, because the world with which daily life comes into contact is finite. And intuitionistic logic is not some paranoid…

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  • Philosophy of Love: Introduction

    Philosophy of Love: Introduction
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    Philosophy of Love: Introduction

    https://yilinhut.net/2008/02/17/1855.html（Song of Scientism） This song grows more and more admirable the more I listen to it. Every line is so apt, so concise, and so vivid; and it portrays scientism so comprehensively that it says everything that needed to be said, without a single irrelevant word! The subtlety with which this song depicts scientism is something that ordinary scholars who oppose scientism can hardly hope to match. The question is: how was this done? Why is it that the lyricist of a pop song, composing a popular love song, could depict “scientism” so precisely? Of course, I think “he did not mean to”; he was not deliberately setting out to…

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  • Value and Rights—The Ethics of Reification

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    Value and Rights—The Ethics of Reification

    This topic had already been discussed long ago in The Second Assignment for the Special Topic on Life and Death in Ethics: On the Value of Life and Outline for the First Discussion in the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology, but those earlier discussions were tucked away inside two assignments, and perhaps not prominent enough. Since this issue is quite important for my own “system of thought,” I am putting together a special post on it. I have not done any etymological detective work myself; I am simply going by Kingsoft PowerWord and a philosophical dictionary. The lineages of words like “value” and “right” are probably something like this: “to…

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