Author: 胡翌霖

This Issue’s Music: The Pure Land Dhāraṇī (in a Tibetan Folk Song Style)

Life & Notes2007.06.05
This Issue’s Music: The Pure Land Dhāraṇī (in a Tibetan Folk Song Style)
http://buddha.goodweb.cn/music/musicdownload/jingtu_tln.mp3 Pure Land Dhāraṇī (in the style of a Tibetan folk song) http://buddha.goodweb.cn/music/musictxt/wangsheng.asp The one posted above is incomplete; the one below is long enough, though it’s a bit large, and it stuttered in the middle: http://buddha.goodweb.cn/music/musicdownload/jingtu_tln2.mp3 This installment of music continues the journey eastward; after the guqin, let’s go farther west and find a piece of Tibetan music. Tibet has always been one of the places I most yearn for. I seem to have posted a Tibetan folk song before. This time I originally wanted to do “A Sister Drum,” but listening to the “Six-Character Great Bright Mantra” inside A Sister Drum, I thought it would be better to…
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2007年6月5日
Yilin’s Little Retreat

Site Matters2007.06.04
Yilin’s Little Retreat
I had often wanted to find a blog other than Yeku as a secondary base—both for backups and to hide some things as well as add some things. In short, changing the style a bit might well be interesting. But after checking out various blogs, I all felt that I wasn’t used to them (I’m the sort of person who gets used to something and then can’t be bothered to change), and in the end I gave them all up. Recently I saw that Yeku allows one user to register two blogs, so I casually registered one, and then just as casually went over to Bokee and registered one there…
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2007年6月4日
[Repost] The Progressive View of History and the View of History as Redemption (Weiming BBS)

Life & Notes2007.06.03
[Repost] The Progressive View of History and the View of History as Redemption (Weiming BBS)
i—— When Professor Wu was lecturing, he said that the progressive view of history is the secularized version of the history of salvation, but I didn’t quite understand it. Could some expert help explain it?? I’d be extremely grateful 🙂 Gǔ Huà—— Ancient people’s views of history rarely involved linear progress; more often they took all kinds of cyclical forms—either saying that history was declining ever more deeply (for example, from a Golden Age to an Iron Age), or saying that history would be an endless cycle (as in Heraclitus’s “Great Year”). In the East, cyclical theories were even more common. In short, the progressive view of history is a…
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2007年6月3日
[Repost] The Top 20 Philosophy Departments in Chinese Universities in 2007

Life & Notes2007.06.03
[Repost] The Top 20 Philosophy Departments in Chinese Universities in 2007
http://edu.qq.com/a/20070330/000076.htm http://edu.qq.com/gaokao/ztq/slzl.shtml In the undergraduate major catalog, philosophy consists of only one disciplinary category, with 3 undergraduate majors. According to statistical data published by the State Council Academic Degrees Office, philosophy bachelor’s degrees granted by universities in our country account for 0.19% of the total number of bachelor’s degrees, philosophy master’s degrees account for 1.36% of the total number of master’s degrees, and philosophy doctorates account for 1.73% of the total number of doctorates. According to statistics on doctoral supervisors released by the Higher Education Students Affairs Department of the Ministry of Education, among the 37,078 doctoral supervisors in universities nationwide, 539 are philosophy doctoral supervisors, accounting for 1.45% of…
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2007年6月3日
[Repost] Beijing Haidian Book City Pedestrian Street Reopens

Life & Notes2007.06.03
[Repost] Beijing Haidian Book City Pedestrian Street Reopens
http://www.whxw.com.cn/Article/gg/200706/20070601090150_97206.shtml Source: “Jinghua Times” Updated: 2007-6-1 9:01:50 Traditional Chinese One of the city’s 10 distinctive commercial streets; studios for animation, film, and other fields are distributed among them This newspaper report: On the morning of May 30, the Haidian Book City Pedestrian Street, after more than 10 months of renovation and transformation, was officially opened. This pedestrian street is the earliest completed project among the 10 city-level distinctive commercial streets planned to be completed in this city before 2008, and it is also the largest single street of book culture in the country. The newly completed pedestrian street is 220 meters long, about 10 meters wide, with a floor area…
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2007年6月3日
“Chess Game” and Rational Pluralism

Philosophy & Thought2007.06.02
“Chess Game” and Rational Pluralism
The paper I wrote on philosophy of technology before was too rushed—I only decided to switch from Heidegger to Feenberg at two in the morning on Tuesday, spent all of Tuesday and Wednesday reading, and didn’t finish the paper until 6 a.m. on Thursday morning… In fact, many places could still have been developed further. On the question of plural rationality, the example Feenberg gives is a very good one— In the paper I wrote: Here, Feenberg agrees with historicism and social constructivism in holding that not only the content of rational beliefs, but also the principles and forms of reason itself, are historical and culturally plural. In order to…
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2007年6月2日
This Issue’s Music: Drunken Fisherman Sings at Dusk (guqin)

Life & Notes2007.05.31
This Issue’s Music: Drunken Fisherman Sings at Dusk (guqin)
http://xybbs.bonze.cn/cgl/cp/gzj/02.mp3 http://hyl510.googlepages.com/zuiyuchangwan.MP3 (It seems the Googlepage link can’t be reached…) What music should I pick for this issue? … Headache… There are too many pieces worth choosing from, and I don’t know where to begin. j Let’s keep looking for a few more pieces with an Eastern flavor. Last time I put up some Mongolian music; this time I should return to the Huaxia tradition, right: the guqin. “Drunken Fisherman Sings at Dusk”: http://baike.baidu.com/view/800984.htm “It sounds the same as ‘Fisherman’s Song’ but differs in mode. This piece truly has the meaning of laughing at the clouds and mist, and of drunken contentment in a world of wine; it is not…
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2007年5月31日
[Repost] About Philosophy in Secondary School and Philosophy Departments

Philosophy & Thought2007.05.31
[Repost] About Philosophy in Secondary School and Philosophy Departments
http://www.gotopku.cn/forum/viewthread.php?tid=38381&fpage=1 The previous post doesn’t seem to have been moved over to the blog, has it? Today I ran into yet another classmate who became interested in the philosophy department after reading a Marxist philosophy textbook from the 1980s, so I suppose this needs to be clarified…… But in fact, perhaps the connection is not all that important. As long as one likes thinking, in the end, by a roundabout stroke of luck, one will probably still end up liking the philosophy department. Author: Title: Recommended: "Popular Philosophy" Previous topic | Next topic su Jinshi Points 4017 Posts 2255 Registered 2005-10-16 From Guangzhou Status Offline #1 Recommended "Popular Philosophy" Posted from: Future…
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2007年5月31日
A Third Path One Can Choose—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology

History of Science & Scholarship2007.05.31
A Third Path One Can Choose—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology
The Third Path That Can Be Chosen—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology Introduction American philosopher of technology Andrew Feenberg is a representative of contemporary Western Marxist philosophy of technology. His critical theory of technology seeks to open up a “third path” in philosophy of technology—Feenberg hopes to carve out a new route between the traditional optimism and pessimism about technology, inheriting the critique and reflection on modern technology found in the Frankfurt School, Heidegger, Ellul, and other pessimists, while also retaining something of the utopian ideal found in Marx and in theorists of technology as a tool. Feenberg believes that he will “preserve the strengths of both theories while…
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2007年5月31日
The Third Way—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology (Reading Notes)

Philosophy & Thought2007.05.31
The Third Way—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology (Reading Notes)
As usual, let me first post a rough draft of the essay. I had originally planned to write about Heidegger, but Heidegger’s articles are really too ethereal; when I read them, it’s all clouds and fog, impossible to get a grip on… Among the philosophy of technology thinkers discussed so far, aside from Marx, Feenberg is still the one most to my taste, though Ellul and Mumford are also worthy of respect. [US]Andrew Feenberg: Critique of Technology, translated by Han Lianqing and Cao Guanfǎ, Peking University Press,2005 Preface, p. 1, v, (first sentence) Must humanity submit to the harsh logic of machines? Or can technology be fundamentally redesigned so that…
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2007年5月31日