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Brief Notes from the First/Third/Fourth Day of Classes in the New Semester

Life & Notes2006.02.23
Brief Notes from the First/Third/Fourth Day of Classes in the New Semester
A Brief Note on the First Day of the New Semester’s Classes Xingding posted on 2006-02-20 22:12:01 1. Liu Zhuanghu: Set Theory — Teacher Liu is very likable. Unlike Xing Taotao, who paced back and forth slowly in front of the blackboard, Teacher Liu dashed rapidly back and forth… I copied the textbook; at first glance, set theory still seems like a difficulty one can bear. Set theory is quite important. If one is studying philosophy of science and technology, one must understand science; it is unacceptable to stand on a humanistic position and speak in airy abstractions while having no understanding of science at all. One can begin to…
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2006年2月23日
Winter Vacation Reading Notes, 2006: Introduction / Conclusion / Contents

Life & Notes2006.02.19
Winter Vacation Reading Notes, 2006: Introduction / Conclusion / Contents
2006 Winter Vacation Reading Notes: Preface/Conclusion/Contents Last year, in order to write a paper on ecological philosophy, I “finished” 117 books within two months. It looked “fierce,” but in fact, aside from a little over a dozen books I read closely, the rest were mostly skimmed by reading the beginning, the end, and selected relevant passages, and that was that; it was not solid work, and the books I read then will need to be read again in the future. This winter vacation, however, I made a major change in style: for the vast majority of books I adopted a “read through” method, meaning that I made sure my eyes…
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2006年2月19日
A Call for Submissions for “Gongqingyuan”～～

Life & Notes2006.02.14
A Call for Submissions for “Gongqingyuan”～～
Sender: EPR (Xingding), Section: Philo Subject: About submissions for “Qingqiuan”~~ Posting station: Peking University Weiming Station (Tuesday, February 14, 2006 10:59:42), internal message Submissions for the 40th issue of “Qingqiuan” have long been solicited in secret, and because of my negligence I never posted an ad… It had originally been planned to put out an issue after the winter break ended, but that now seems rather difficult; still, I will do my best to rush it out, and the plan to publish two issues this year has not changed. The next issue of “Qingqiuan” may be organized around a special topic, but this issue has no fixed theme. Any…
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2006年2月14日
It Turns Out That the People Who Support the Market Economy Most Are the Chinese

Life & Notes2006.02.07
It Turns Out That the People Who Support the Market Economy Most Are the Chinese
I came across an article in yesterday’s Cankao Xiaoxi, and found the full text online: http://business.sohu.com/20060206/n241679830.shtml This passage is quite thought-provoking: For a long time, there have been statements internationally such as “Chinese are born knowing how to make money,” “Chinese are economic animals,” and “Overseas Chinese are the Jews of the East.” A recently released global public opinion survey seems to have, to some extent, confirmed these claims. The University of Maryland’s Program on International Policy Attitudes and the polling organization “Global Scan” jointly conducted a sampled public opinion survey in 20 countries around the world. The results found that Chinese people are even more enthusiastic about the free…
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2006年2月7日
Selected Diary Entries of Kierkegaard

Life & Notes2006.01.23
Selected Diary Entries of Kierkegaard
[Denmark] Søren Kierkegaard: Selected Kierkegaard Diaries, selected and edited by [Denmark] Peter P. Rohde, translated by Yan Kejia and Yao Beiqin, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press, 1996 Kierkegaard is one of the philosophers of irrationalist currents whom I admire rather more. What I admire in him chiefly are his “three stages of life” and his view of religion (it seems that a thinker’s attitude toward religion is what most determines how much I like him; only after that comes his attitude toward science). Of course, admiring a thinker’s ideas does not in the least mean agreeing with them. I take a reserved attitude overall toward the excerpts below that…
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2006年1月23日
A fortunate chat with Professor Li Deshun

Life & Notes2006.01.14
A fortunate chat with Professor Li Deshun
Alas, I’m so tired today, I won’t record it…… Latest comments Me 2006-01-14 21:52:45 [reply] Just jot down a few odds and ends: We were told to assemble at nine in the morning. I wasn’t properly awake; ZW had a nosebleed; CG sprained his wrist. It seemed everyone was having a pretty rough time. LY overslept; at first, when we texted and called, he didn’t respond at all, and I even thought something had happened to him, like he had chipped a front tooth or something. In the end, we confirmed it was because he had stayed up all night and only gone to sleep at six. We didn’t bring…
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2006年1月14日
Ice Skating Is So Fun~~

Life & Notes2006.01.09
Ice Skating Is So Fun~~
RT Latest Comments mist 2006-01-10 20:54:16 [Reply] What a comfortable fall 🙂
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2006年1月9日
On the South China Tiger Incident

Life & Notes2006.01.08
On the South China Tiger Incident
http://hps.phil.pku.edu.cn/bbs/read.php?tid=282 Lately it’s felt a bit like repressed feelings have suddenly burst out in one concentrated explosion, with momentum gushing up from the stomach~ Maybe it’s borrowed from Schopenhauer’s stimulation? As for the South China tiger affair, I’d long wanted to say a few things, but had never managed to get them out. Taking the repost on the forum, and riding this surge of momentum, I finally can’t keep quiet anymore. This is a joke post—surely I can see that, can’t I? Of course I can. The moment I saw “reposted from XX forum” and “repost MP,” I knew it was only a joke, and a really brilliant one at…
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2006年1月8日
I Am a Realistic Idealist, or an Ideal Realist (A Supplement to the Previous Essay and the Debate It Sparked)

Life & Notes2006.01.07
I Am a Realistic Idealist, or an Ideal Realist (A Supplement to the Previous Essay and the Debate It Sparked)
I just debated with ZW for more than an hour. It’s already started to have a bit of the flavor of “directing the realm from the mountaintop” (just kidding—don’t take it seriously), and although I did get something out of it, I’m exhausted. Because my personal political views are very easy to misunderstand—easy to mistake for “counterrevolutionary” or “fool-the-masses”—but perhaps it’s not a misunderstanding after all. If revolution is understood as a revolution against China as it exists in reality, then I am a resolute “counterrevolutionary.” Of course, someone may say: as social development reaches a certain stage, there is always the possibility that revolution will become necessary; so am…
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2006年1月7日
What Do I “Want” to Do?

Life & Notes2006.01.03
What Do I “Want” to Do?
Heaven knows how I still had the leisure to write an essay during final-exam season. Contemporary politics and economics have already been smashed to pieces, tomorrow’s English is hopeless too, and I can’t even finish reading Chinese philosophy…… Sigh. But today during a group chat CG mentioned that he wanted to “bring social, political, and economic studies into one coherent whole,” of course just as casual chatter, but it made me think of some questions. Someone once shouted the slogan “bringing Chinese, Western, and Marxist thought into one coherent whole,” and very soon someone else coined the matching line, “boasting of smashing through ancient and modern cattle.” To shout about…
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2006年1月3日