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  • Nature as Raw Meat or Bacon

    History of Science & Scholarship

    Nature as Raw Meat or Bacon

    Today in discussion class, Liu Ping’s paper, which he will be presenting next week, came up. He wants to write on “wilderness and flesh,” attempting an environmental-philosophical reading of Merleau-Ponty’s later philosophy. It sounds very interesting. This important concept in Merleau-Ponty’s later philosophy is usually translated as “flesh,” but Liu Ping said this translation is not good, because it misses a great deal of meaning. But don’t be like Liu Zhe: since we are using Chinese to do phenomenological thinking, rather than working as mere scholars of texts—and foreign scholars of texts at that—to do philological research, of course we should still ultimately translate these concepts. Even if some meaning…

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  • Regarding the Third Assignment for Ke Tong: “On Bacon’s Science”

    History of Science & Scholarship

    Regarding the Third Assignment for Ke Tong: “On Bacon’s Science”

    As final exams approach, the teaching assistants are all busy too… This time I was a bit lazy with the assignment and didn’t annotate and reply to each student one by one. In fact, last time I did annotate and reply individually, many people simply didn’t even look at my comments, and the citations were still nonstandard. That really disappointed me… Of course, if you would like to communicate with me, you can take the initiative to contact me. Given that this assignment was relatively open, the standards were also hard to set, and it was the final assignment, I suggest grading somewhat leniently, with 8 points as the basic…

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  • Printing, Natural History, and the Birth of Modern Science

    History of Science & Scholarship

    Printing, Natural History, and the Birth of Modern Science

    Introduction This article attempts to point out a certain connection among the three things named in the title—what is the relation between the invention of printing, the revival of natural history, and the birth of modern science? Is there perhaps some profound link among them, such that if we want to understand the essence of modern science and even “modernity,” we must begin by examining the influence of printing? Among these three matters, the date of printing’s appearance in Europe is the clearest: in the 1440s, Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany, invented movable-type printing. Whether or not Chinese printing indirectly influenced Gutenberg’s invention, the fact that the era of print in…

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  • Science and Judgment

    History of Science & Scholarship

    Science and Judgment

    Bacon believed that the purpose of science was to “torture out nature’s mysteries”; nature must be “pursued relentlessly as she wanders,” made into a “slave,” and “forced to render service.” (This paragraph is from the internet; the source is to be verified.) I For now I will not dwell on the “rape” metaphor for modern science, but instead note that the word “torture” is itself an extremely apt metaphor for a key feature of modern science. In the “rape” metaphor, science’s subject is implied to be “male domination,” while nature, though always “female,” has fallen from “mother” to “female slave”; the “method” of scientific research is “relentless pursuit,” its “attitude”…

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  • [Eng] F. Bacon: Essays

    Philosophy & Thought

    [Eng] F. Bacon: Essays

    [English] Francis Bacon: Essays, translated by He Xin, revised edition, Hualing Publishing House, April 2001 This may well count as one of the oldest and most famous “self-help” books in the world. The edition I read is precisely one of the so-called “New Century Youth Self-Help Bookshelf” series; among the same series are Machiavelli’s The Prince, Adler’s Overcoming Self-Doubt, Schopenhauer’s On the Sufferings of Love and Gender, and Rousseau’s Reveries of a Solitary Walker. These sorts of “self-help” books are obviously far more meaningful than things like The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People or Live Happily and Wealthily All Your Life. Of course, as a rule I don’t read…

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