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[Austrian] Erwin Schrödinger: “Nature and Ancient Greece”

History of Science & Scholarship2006.02.19
[Austrian] Erwin Schrödinger: “Nature and Ancient Greece”
[Austrian] Erwin Schrödinger: *Nature and Ancient Greece*, translated by Yan Feng, Shanghai Scientific and Technical Publishers, May 2002 (Translator’s Preface) p. 3 Although Schrödinger loved mathematics and physics in middle school, he did not reject the liberal arts; he did very well in both Greek and Latin, and also taught himself French and English. Later, he read and wrote the four modern languages of English, French, Italian, and Spanish just as well as Greek and Latin. He once translated Homer’s epic poems into English, and translated French poetry into German. He also published a personal poetry collection in 1949. He loved drawing and sculpture, and had a special passion for…
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2006年2月19日
[French] Jean Ladrière: “The Challenge of Science and Technology to Culture”

History of Science & Scholarship2006.02.18
[French] Jean Ladrière: “The Challenge of Science and Technology to Culture”
[French] Jean Ladrière: “The Challenge of Science and Technology to Culture,” translated by Lü Naiji, Wang Zhuojun, and Lin Xiaoyu, Commercial Press, November 1997 Page I (Publisher’s Preface) This book was prepared by the philosopher and scientist Jean Ladrière at the invitation of UNESCO, in response to the organization’s “Science, Ethics, Aesthetics” symposium, held in 1974 at its philosophy division in Paris and attended by philosophers and scientists from around the world. Pages 2–3 However, it is becoming increasingly clear that science, as a method for understanding reality, relies primarily not on imagination but on action; this is the meaning of “knowledge is power.” ………… Today, science is no longer…
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2006年2月18日
[U.S.] Thomas Nagel: “Your First Philosophy Book”

Philosophy & Thought2006.02.18
[U.S.] Thomas Nagel: “Your First Philosophy Book”
[U.S.] Thomas Nagel: Your First Book of Philosophy, translated by Bao Shu, Contemporary China Publishing House, February 2005 Today I had a lot going on, and I didn’t finish the reading task I had planned. To barely make it up to one book a day, I dug out this tiniest of philosophy books and read it straight through. This book is really far too short. I found its English electronic edition online; the English text is just a little over 20,000 words, and the Chinese edition is priced at 15 yuan. Alas… Still, this book isn’t bad. You can tell from the Chinese title alone (the English title is What…
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2006年2月18日
Wang Hongbo and Ma Jianbo, eds., Crossing the Chasm—Science in a Cultural Perspective

History of Science & Scholarship2006.02.16
Wang Hongbo and Ma Jianbo, eds., Crossing the Chasm—Science in a Cultural Perspective
Wang Hongbo Ma Jianbo eds.: Cross the Gorge—Science in a Cultural Perspective, Fujian Education Press, February 2002 Kang Yanwu: An Incomprehensible Humanistic Spirit (Second Paragraph) Page 16 In the fourth paragraph of Zhou Wen, he says: “The real danger of modern technology does not lie in visible consequences such as the explosion of an atomic bomb, but in this mode of dealing with things already contained in its very essence: it strips all things of their real existence and intrinsic value, leaving them only a functional, false existence.” This is truly an arcane piece of abstruse talk. What exactly is “this mode of dealing with things”? How does it “strip all things…
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2006年2月16日
[U.S.] Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan: “Tilted Truth—On Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution”

History of Science & Scholarship2006.02.15
[U.S.] Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan: “Tilted Truth—On Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution”
[U.S.] Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan: *Tinkering Truths—On Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution*, translated by Li Jianhui et al., proofread by Su Xiangui, Jiangxi Education Press, October 1999 http://mqxx.mhedu.sh.cn/ebook/ZX/ZX/qxdzl/index.htm Chapter One: Sunday Visit to Oppenheimer P10~11 pp. 17~18 Karl, a little younger than I was, liked the feeling of magnifying his own importance. He grasped Copernicus’s lesson only superficially: Galileo’s views were accepted for logical reasons, not emotional ones. Although Ptolemaic thought had been obsolete for centuries, my ambitious astronomer acted as if the earth (especially Ravi) were the absolute center of the universe. His mother, endlessly circling around her son, would ask questions that were hard to answer: “Where did…
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2006年2月15日
[U.S.] Edwin Arthur Burtt: “The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science”

History of Science & Scholarship2006.02.14
[U.S.] Edwin Arthur Burtt: “The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science”
[U.S.] Edwin Arthur Burtt: The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, translated by Xu Xiangdong, Peking University Press, January 2003 P16 p. 2 The central place of epistemology in modern philosophy is by no means accidental; it is the natural inference from something deeper and more meaningful, namely, the concept of man, especially the idea of man’s relation to the world around him. P18 p. 3 For mainstream medieval thought, compared with the physical world, man occupied a more important and more definite position in the cosmos. But for mainstream modern thought, nature has a more independent, more definite, and more enduring status than man. P24 p. 11 Just as…
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2006年2月14日
[Eng] F. Bacon: Essays

Philosophy & Thought2006.02.12
[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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2006年2月12日
[German] Rickert: “Cultural Science and Natural Science”

History of Science & Scholarship2006.02.11
[German] Rickert: “Cultural Science and Natural Science”
[German] Heinrich Rickert: “Culture and Natural Science,” translated by Tu Jiliang, proofread by Du Renzhi, Commercial Press, March 1986 http://rwxy.tsinghua.edu.cn/rwfg/ydsm/ydsm-qw/j06/000.htm Page vi On the other hand, although the scope of any historical concept is limited by a certain object or phenomenon, it must itself necessarily contain something general. For example, although no one would doubt that Goethe was only a particular individual, that there was no second Goethe, does Goethe not have the same characteristics as others? Can one explain Goethe’s characteristics without using certain general concepts? Can historians give a scientific account of any historical figure without understanding the universal laws governing social and historical development? In fact, no…
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2006年2月11日
[Eng.] Raymond Firth: “Human Types,” translated by Fei Xiaotong

Culture & Public Commentary2006.02.10
[Eng.] Raymond Firth: “Human Types,” translated by Fei Xiaotong
[UK] Raymond Firth: “Human Types,” translated by Fei Xiaotong, Huaxia Publishing House, January 2002 Page 124 Science and magic are usually regarded as the two extremes of the rational and the irrational. Yet if human behavior is sharply divided into two parts, the rational and the irrational, this boundary is not easy to draw. Take, for example, the relation between technical knowledge and magic: we see that in various kinds of attitudes and activities, there are elements of both rationality and irrationality. Some of the substances used in healing magic do seem to have curative effects. Other healing magicians are enthusiastic about reasonable experiments. On the other hand, science in…
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2006年2月10日
Noya Keiichi: “Kuhn—Paradigm”

History of Science & Scholarship2006.02.09
Noya Keiichi: “Kuhn—Paradigm”
[Japanese] Noya Keiichi: “Kuhn—Paradigm,” translated by Bi Xiaohui, proofread by Chen Huabei, Hebei Education Publishing House, January 2002 There are some books that one must read, cannot not read, books it is impossible to imagine not reading; for me, Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is a typical example. And yet I seem to have this lazy habit: since I will have to read it sooner or later, there is no harm in reading it a little later. And so, dragging it on, I still haven’t read it. Next semester I will officially begin studying philosophy of science, and the books that must be read have finally become impossible to…
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2006年2月9日