分类：Philosophy & Thought

What Is the Story Behind Kant’s Hundred Thalers?

Philosophy & Thought2007.03.01
What Is the Story Behind Kant’s Hundred Thalers?
What’s the Story with Kant’s One Hundred Thalers? Xingding posted on 2007-03-01 22:12:32 What’s the Story with Kant’s One Hundred Thalers? At last, the grades for last semester’s courses finally all came out. Political Theory and the general elective were both3.0; both courses in religious studies were3.7; General History of Science, Research on Globalization Issues, and Popper’s Philosophy of History were all4.0. All in all, it was still very satisfying. Who would have thought that the grade for the last course to appear—Metaphysics—was only2.0, instantly canceling out the0.03 points ofGPA I had so painstakingly clawed my way up to. The reason this course’s grade came out so late was that…
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2007年3月1日
[U.S.] Jaakko Hintikka: “Wittgenstein”

Philosophy & Thought2007.02.11
[U.S.] Jaakko Hintikka: “Wittgenstein”
[U.S.] Jaakko Hintikka: “Wittgenstein” Xingding posted on 2007-02-11 23:25:47 [U.S.]Jaakko Hintikka: “Wittgenstein,” translated by Fang Xudong, Zhonghua Book Company, May 2002 I read this on the plane and at the airport on my way back to Shanghai. Since the book is very thin, I originally thought I could finish it during the waiting period, but in the end it took much longer than expected to read it (these past few days I had been reading only light stuff, and this one at last has some connection with philosophy). As a result, I nearly missed boarding… Since I still have not begun an in-depth reading of Wittgenstein’s original works, for the…
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2007年2月11日
[Eng] John Hick: Philosophy of Religion

Philosophy & Thought2007.02.02
[Eng] John Hick: Philosophy of Religion
[Eng.] John Hick: “Philosophy of Religion” Xingding 发表于 2007-02-02 10:49:07 [Eng.] John Hick: Philosophy of Religion, translated by He Guanghu, proofread by Gao Shining, Sanlian Bookstore, January 1988 This book is probably the first translated work on philosophy of religion published in mainland China. In fact, even up to now, there are still very few fairly good overview or introductory books on philosophy of religion on the market. The original works one can mention include Xie Fuya (1998), Shan Chun (2003), as well as the one in the recently published translation series of classic foreign philosophy textbooks from the Renmin University Press. Compared with them, Hick’s book, as an introductory…
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2007年2月2日
[English] John Hick: “The Rainbow of Faith—A Dialogue with Critics of Religious Pluralism”

Philosophy & Thought2007.01.21
[English] John Hick: “The Rainbow of Faith—A Dialogue with Critics of Religious Pluralism”
[Eng.]John Hick: Rainbow of Faith — A Dialogue with Critics of Religious Pluralism, translated by Wang Zhicheng and Sizhu, Jiangsu People’s Publishing House2000, February2. Pages2~3. The purpose of dialogue between theology and philosophy is not necessarily to reach agreement—though that is what the interlocutors hope for, and sometimes agreement really is reached—but rather, more precisely, to find out where they differ from one another, and to look at the issues from both the affirmative and the negative sides,////—I very much appreciate Hick’s view of dialogue. Page32. Kant held that perception is not a passive recording of perceived objects, but is always an active process of selection, grouping, association, inference, and the conferring…
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2007年1月21日
[Eng.] John Hick: “Reason and Faith — Problems of Religious Pluralism”

Philosophy & Thought2007.01.20
[Eng.] John Hick: “Reason and Faith — Problems of Religious Pluralism”
[Eng]John Hick: Rationality and Faith — Questions in Religious Pluralism, translated by Chen Zhiping and Wang Zhicheng, Sichuan People’s Publishing House2003January pp. 15–16 P14 Religious language expresses our understanding of God in mythic patterns. That these patterns are human in character and culturally conditioned is a fact, and to some people this fact reveals the following possibility: in depicting divine reality, the different mythic systems of the major religious traditions are less in competition with one another than complementary to one another. However, in such theological work there is a genuinely internal problem or tension. Religious life is practiced primarily on the basis of symbols and myths. The eternal Son…
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2007年1月20日
Is Non-Euclidean Geometry Favorable to Apriorism?

Philosophy & Thought2007.01.16
Is Non-Euclidean Geometry Favorable to Apriorism?
Non-Euclidean geometry is generally thought to be a “fatal blow” to Kantian transcendental theory. In an earlier article, I expressed doubt about this overly simplistic idea. But recently, as I happened to mull over the question again, an even bolder thought popped into my head — the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry is actually favorable to transcendental theory! It should be noted that Kant’s transcendental theory is neither empiricism nor rationalism. Kant is not saying that if one first finds a few axioms in human a priori intuition, then one can deduce the true state of the objective world. Kant is answering this question: since human experience of this world is…
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2007年1月16日
How Locke, Kant, and Dostoevsky respectively viewed the relationship between Christianity and modern society (draft)

Philosophy & Thought2007.01.13
How Locke, Kant, and Dostoevsky respectively viewed the relationship between Christianity and modern society (draft)
Locke is a representative figure of empiricism and natural theology; empiricism and natural theology, together with Baconian science (that is, experimental science), make up the basic tendency of modern and contemporary thought—in precise terms, these three are simply three aspects, in philosophy, theology, and science respectively, of the same intellectual current. Reason and freedom are the key words in Locke’s view of religion, and of course they are also the main thread of modern and contemporary thought. Locke placed reason above revelation, holding that wherever reason can provide certain knowledge, faith should not interfere; if faith oversteps its bounds, fanaticism is inevitable. Only in those matters that reason cannot confirm…
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2007年1月13日
The Religious Questions I Care About

Philosophy & Thought2007.01.02
The Religious Questions I Care About
Clearly, my interest in and concern with religion is not limited to Christianity; it also includes other religions, and even the concept of religion itself. Tracing it back to its source, I first began to care about religious questions in high school. Back then I had already been thinking about the “crisis of faith” in contemporary society. At the time, I lamented the absence of faith in contemporary China—Confucian culture had been destroyed, and Marxism was also being neglected. Then I still styled myself a Marxist (strangely enough, to this day I still style myself a believer in Marxism; in a few days, if I get the chance, I’ll come…
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2007年1月2日
In the Epistle to the Romans, how did Paul understand Jesus’ Passion?

Philosophy & Thought2006.12.04
In the Epistle to the Romans, how did Paul understand Jesus’ Passion?
At the very opening of Romans, it is already said that “this gospel [is that] which God had before promised by his prophets in the holy scriptures concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was descended from David according to the flesh, and was declared with power to be the Son of God according to the spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead. Through him we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the nations for his name” (1:2–5). We can see that Jesus’ death and resurrection are, first, the “promise,” second, the “declaration,” third, “grace,” and fourth, what teaches…
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2006年12月4日
A Brief Discussion of the Popularization of Philosophy (Final Published Version)

Philosophy & Thought2006.11.27
A Brief Discussion of the Popularization of Philosophy (Final Published Version)
Theoretical Weekly, Page 12, November 27, 2006, Guangming Daily http://www.gmw.cn/01gmrb/2006-11/27/content_513411.htm http://www.gmw.cn/01gmrb/2006-11/27/4453_b.htm In our country, work on the popularization of philosophy once received a high degree of attention and produced enormous influence, though of course it also had certain problems and shortcomings. Since the 1990s, owing to changes in philosophy’s status, work on popularizing philosophy has no longer been taken seriously, and an academicized orientation has become the sole pursuit, bringing with it even more problems. This article offers a few of my personal views, in the hope of prompting people to rethink this issue. Both philosophy and science need popularization; that is to say, they need to enable people outside…
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2006年11月27日