Author: 胡翌霖

Group research may be worth considering.

Life & Notes2007.06.15
Group research may be worth considering.
This time my academic-year paper was rated excellent. That was no surprise, really; after all, among ten people I ought to be able to squeeze in somehow. As expected, Teacher lsl places considerable emphasis on undergraduate research. What he said hit the nail on the head: if problems only surface when it comes to the graduation thesis, then the teachers really have no choice but to “swallow bitter huanglian and stay silent,” because in general no one has the heart to stop a student from graduating just because of the final paper. This is true not only of undergraduates, but of master’s students as well, just as Teacher Liu put…
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2007年6月15日
Negative Ontology

History of Science & Scholarship2007.06.15
Negative Ontology
Negative Ontology ——A Critical Appraisal of Kant’s Ontological Thought Abstract: This essay aims to interpret Kant’s ontological thought in Critique of Pure Reason and Introduction to a Future Metaphysics. Kant’s ontology differs radically from the tradition; it is what may be called a “negative ontology,” that is, an ontology whose aim is not to expand knowledge, but to set limits to it. The thing-in-itself is precisely Kant’s ontic ground; Kant emphasizes that the thing-in-itself is unknowable, yet must be thinkable and acknowledged. The positing of the thing-in-itself, on the one hand, restricts the arrogance of dogmatism; on the other hand, it also restrains the lawlessness of skeptics. In the realm…
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2007年6月15日
Repost: 2007 French Baccalaureate (BAC) Essay Questions

Life & Notes2007.06.13
Repost: 2007 French Baccalaureate (BAC) Essay Questions
发信人: Eagle (Kuma), 区: Philo 标题: 2007 French Baccalaureate (BAC) Essay Questions 发信站: Peking University Unnamed BBS (2007年06月13日11:30:34 Wednesday) , site message June 11, 2007 Time: 4 hours Graduates in the literary, economics and social sciences, and science tracks may each choose one of the following three topics: Questions for literary-track candidates 1) Is any realization of insight also a liberation from the shackles of thought? （Toute prise de conscience est-elle libératrice? ） 2) Are works of art realities like any others? （Les oeuvres d'art sont-elles des réalités comme les autres? ） 3) Explain Aristotle’s discussion of “responsibility” in Ethique à Nicomaque （Expliquer un extrait de "Ethique à Nicomaque"…
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2007年6月13日
Repost: Are Artificial Species About to Appear?

Life & Notes2007.06.13
Repost: Are Artificial Species About to Appear?
Artificial species are about to make their debut http://news.sina.com.cn/w/2007-06-09/074011988076s.shtml http://www.sina.com.cn 2007年06月09日07:40 Sichuan Online – Huaxi Metropolis Daily According to a report on the 8th by American media, several American biologists are using the method of synthetic biology to synthesize the smallest and simplest genome from DNA fragments carrying specific genetic codes, and then implant that genome into bacteria from which the genetic code has already been removed, thereby forming a new microorganism. At present, this new artificial species is about to come into being. According to reports, the scientist leading this research is named Venter, and he has long been devoted to artificially creating new microorganisms at an institute in…
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2007年6月13日
Outline for Discussion on “Religious Knowledge”

Philosophy & Thought2007.06.12
Outline for Discussion on “Religious Knowledge”
Xu Lao-shi is really something… It’s already the last class, and we still have to discuss things, and still have to write a discussion outline… Fortunately the paper can be turned in at the end of the month. Let me write it in a hurry then—I seem to have written a discussion outline for the first time in the form of an outline rather than a paper. But this time it seems to have gone to the other extreme, scattered all over the place… does it have a bit of Vico’s spirit?~ “Religious Knowledge” Discussion Outline According to Kant, intuition and concept are the two elements of knowledge. However, the…
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2007年6月12日
This Episode’s Music: A Night in the Forest (Bandari Orchestra)

Life & Notes2007.06.12
This Episode’s Music: A Night in the Forest (Bandari Orchestra)
http://www1.hrbust.edu.cn/zuzhijigou/gonghui/music/03/01.mp3 A while ago I bought this CD set: http://www.joyo.com/detail/product.asp?prodid=bkmu610380 The key thing was seeing a user comment saying, “This set should be every bit as famous as Bandari,” and, combined with the over-the-top introduction, I ended up buying it. But this set of discs really disappointed me—it’s nothing more than taking some classical music or easy listening and adding bird calls or the sound of running water and such. And this is supposed to be the sound of heaven? This is supposed to be natural music? With so little creativity, it can’t even begin to catch up to Bandari and George Winston; now that is what you call natural…
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2007年6月12日
Yangroupao Residence Renamed Winter-Cold-Summer-Hot Residence…

Life & Notes2007.06.11
Yangroupao Residence Renamed Winter-Cold-Summer-Hot Residence…
Lately I’ve really been growing more and more dissatisfied with this “ju”… The construction noise mentioned earlier has still shown no sign of easing up (by rights, shouldn’t it at least be quiet for two days before the college entrance exam? They’re even more industrious than the examinees…), and a couple of days ago, for some unknown reason, they put up an extra wall at the entrance—now, although it’s directly opposite Peking University’s south gate, there’s a wall in between, and you have to take a huge detour to get in. Once the wall went up, of course the storefronts that do business there couldn’t stand it, and the mutton-soup…
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2007年6月11日
The Poor Supporting Characters… Do You Still Remember These Three People?

Life & Notes2007.06.09
The Poor Supporting Characters… Do You Still Remember These Three People?
Ha ha… remember? Hint: Steel###, one airplane, one sports car, one speedboat… for the author to forget these three such distinctive characters is really fz啊… @@ Latest Comments UNIC 2007-06-09 21:42:26 Anonymous 222.82.77.107 [Reply] I have never seen them before. the left one is the most handsome one… Gu Chu 2007-06-10 00:26:45 http://epr.ycool.com/ [Reply] Hehe~ You really are young; it’s understandable that you don’t have a deep impression of the early part of this cartoon. But you must have seen at least some of the later parts, right? If this cartoon weren’t known to every man, woman, and child, I wouldn’t need to make such a fuss over…
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2007年6月9日
A Brief Discussion of the Question of Euthanasia

History of Science & Scholarship2007.06.08
A Brief Discussion of the Question of Euthanasia
One piece counts as two pieces… though that is not right, I really can’t make it in time… A Brief Talk on the Issue of Euthanasia The Basic Definition of Euthanasia Euthanasia refers to “the act or practice of, out of mercy, killing patients or injured persons who have no hope of recovery by a relatively painless method, or allowing them to die.”[①] The above is only a dictionary definition, and in academic discussion there are naturally many imprecisions in it. However, I do not intend to offer a new definition. In what follows, I will mainly discuss euthanasia in relation to issues of life and death. “Euthanasia can be…
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2007年6月8日
The Starry Sky Belongs to Children

Life & Notes2007.06.07
The Starry Sky Belongs to Children
During the winter vacation, when I went to Nanbei Lake with my relatives (a dozen or so people), I casually mentioned whether you could see a few more stars here at Nanbei Lake than in Shanghai. At first, Mom, Dad, uncles, and aunts all seemed completely at sea, until I added that nowadays in Shanghai you can hardly see even a few stars at night; then the “adults” were all astonished— in their impression, the night sky still looked full of stars, so many that they were beyond counting. How could there be only the seven or eight stars you can count on your fingers left? That day happened to…
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2007年6月7日