分类：Life & Notes

How wonderful it is to fly through the air and kiss the earth when it rains…

Life & Notes2009.06.08
How wonderful it is to fly through the air and kiss the earth when it rains…
The situation was like this: This evening, after finishing my English exam at 8:30 and coming back from school, there was a drizzling rain, wet pavement, dim streetlights…… I rode my bike to the intersection of Zhongguancun Avenue and the Fourth Ring Road; the light was basically green. As I rode to the middle of the road, a car coming toward me, either making a U-turn or turning, suddenly appeared. I stopped, preparing to turn aside and go around it, but it lurched forward (it seemed to accelerate) and hit the front of my bike head-on, after which I was thrown to the ground. Since the turning car was not…
everyday life self emotion death
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2009年6月8日
Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-06-06 [and Part Two of the Announcement for the Next Round of Salons]

Life & Notes2009.06.06
Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-06-06 [and Part Two of the Announcement for the Next Round of Salons]
Today there weren’t many people who came, but the good thing was that at last a newcomer dropped by again. From our initial contact, judging by things like his motivation for study, academic background, interests, and personality, he belongs to the type I look favorably upon. I hope you’ll continue to take part in my salon or other activities next semester. As for the specific conversation, it mainly included my asking about his situation, and my restating some of my own basic ideas, introducing a bit about philosophy of technology, as well as talking about philosophy department courses and other casual chatter. I won’t go into that further here. As…
philosophy everyday life history of science Wu Fei
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2009年6月6日
Notes from Today’s New Island Salon, 09-05-30 [and a Preview of the Next Round of Salons]

Life & Notes2009.05.30
Notes from Today’s New Island Salon, 09-05-30 [and a Preview of the Next Round of Salons]
Unexpectedly, quite a few people came today, especially since someone surnamed Li happened to be passing by on the way, which made me very pleased… I’m thinking about the form of the forum next semester. In addition to keeping its current openness and spontaneity, I also want to add some more proactively organized activities, such as reading groups and regular presentations. For some reasons, I feel that perhaps the regular-presentation format is more suitable. Of course, a reading group might also be organized at the same time, but the latter requires some fixed members with particular strengths in order to function well, whereas the former is comparatively more flexible and…
everyday life book reading scholarship blog
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2009年5月30日
Notes from the New Island Salon, 09-05-23

Life & Notes2009.05.24
Notes from the New Island Salon, 09-05-23
今天……就我一个人…… Looks like this semester’s salon is getting ready to wrap up… though maybe we can still hope for a few people during those two weeks after everyone’s exams and before they go home on vacation? Anyway, if nobody comes, that’s perfect—I can use the time to study…… Today, thanks to the fact that nobody came, I finally got started on the translation assignment for the original-text course in sociology of science. The article by Winner that I chose, “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” had two ready-made Chinese translations available for me to consult (I really wasn’t choosing it on purpose): one was the published translation in the *Classic Reader on…
everyday life scholarship philosophy of science translation
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2009年5月24日
Contracts and Spells in Love

Life & Notes2009.05.18
Contracts and Spells in Love
This article is meant to lay out some matters. Since bringing these things up still leaves me with a thousand tangled threads, this essay has no fixed theme; I’ll write as far as I get. As for my own romantic experiences, I already gave some account of them in some earlier articles, but clearly that was not enough, and I also did not devote a special treatment to them in the “Talking Love — Speaking of Love” folder, which makes it seem insufficiently sincere. So here I’ll write a dedicated piece to gather my thoughts. When I was a sophomore, I had a little, short-lived romance, and afterward I lay…
philosophy autobiography pluralism self
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2009年5月18日
Today’s Xindao Salon Jottings 09-05-16

Life & Notes2009.05.16
Today’s Xindao Salon Jottings 09-05-16
With finals approaching, maybe this was a dying flash of the setting sun? This issue of New Island saw an astonishing number of people showing up, especially those rare and hard-to-see exotic beasts, including four old-timers I had summoned, as well as Senior Brother Botian, who parachuted in on his own! Originally I had pulled those folks together for lunch; as it happened, there are usually no outsiders around before and after noon, which gave the old-timers plenty of room to let loose. Who would have thought that a certain group of people wouldn’t show up for lunch until around half past one or two o’clock = =||| In the…
everyday life China scholarship blog
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2009年5月16日
Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-05-09

Life & Notes2009.05.09
Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-05-09
Today’s salon was just as bleak; dr didn’t come either T_T. Only byz and xxj showed up to lend support, in the afternoon and evening respectively. But byz basically didn’t talk about anything; he spent ages reading books, while I was writing the reading notes from the previous post. As for xxj, who just left, we didn’t chat much either, including the relationship between life and reading (I believe reading is itself a part of life and should not be split off into some other activity that is either above or below life), and we also touched on a few questions about games (and childhood), as well as some strange…
philosophy everyday life book reading discussion
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2009年5月9日
Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-05-02

Life & Notes2009.05.02
Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-05-02
Today the throne was actually occupied; apparently it had been booked two days in advance. So I had no choice but to sit in the middle seat by the window next to it instead of in the corner. If a stranger happened to come by looking for me and failed to find me, then there was nothing to be done. This time it was even more miserable than last time: there was practically no one at all. Of course, it is perfectly normal for comrades to be busy and lazy in the latter part of the semester, and this sort of fluctuation in turnout was something I had expected from…
philosophy everyday life history Christianity
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2009年5月2日
Miscellaneous Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-04-25

Life & Notes2009.04.25
Miscellaneous Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-04-25
Given that not many people came today and I’ve had a pretty heavy load these past two days = =, I won’t write much…… In the afternoon and evening, one person came each time, but the exchanges both seemed to feel pretty good. In the afternoon we discussed political philosophy, and in the evening we talked about aesthetics—both fields where I am extremely weak and am just about to start wading into, so what I said seemed rather superficial, but by and large the direction was still fairly on target, right? I’ll keep honing myself slowly…… Spotted here today: dr/xxj Next time I’ll try to proactively drag in a few…
philosophy everyday life scholarship politics
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2009年4月25日
Notes from the Xindao Salon, 09-04-18

Life & Notes2009.04.19
Notes from the Xindao Salon, 09-04-18
· Today’s salon had some newcomers dropping by, though the meaning of the café had not yet fully revealed itself to them. Welcome, friends, please keep spreading the word~ · The little ones were calling for Senior Brother Bu Tianshi, hmm~~ · In my view, a double major and a minor are not very meaningful. If you want to sit in on classes, it would be better to use the electives allotted by your own department to choose courses. But I won’t say too much about this either. · As for questions like course selection guidance, it is better to ask senior students than to ask your advisor~ · Science…
philosophy everyday life knowledge Plato
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2009年4月19日