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Collected Final Exam Essay Questions for the Modern Western Philosophy Course (Combined)

Philosophy & Thought2005.12.15
Collected Final Exam Essay Questions for the Modern Western Philosophy Course (Combined)
A Compilation of Final Exam Reflection Questions for the Course on Modern Western Philosophy: 0. Introduction EPR posted on 2005-12-15 19:35:11 A Compilation of Final Exam Reflection Questions for the Course on Modern Western Philosophy: 0. Introduction Initial intention: Study the major course well! Purpose: Copy the material from the book and then type it into the computer; this is a way of sorting through and consolidating knowledge. At the same time, posting the organized material online can also provide a reference for classmates. Method: This is not an outline, nor is it my own subjective reflections, nor is it an answer written according to the questions. I have simply…
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2005年12月15日
He Qinglian: “We Are Still Looking Up at the Starry Sky”

Culture & Public Commentary2005.12.14
He Qinglian: “We Are Still Looking Up at the Starry Sky”
He Qinglian: “We Are Still Gazing Up at the Starry Sky,” Lijiang Publishing House, January 2001 edition, third printing in February 2001, print run: 20001–40000 I came across this book quite by chance at Boya Hall. Because it was on the economics shelf, and since entering university I have hardly read many books on economics anymore. Yet in my senior year of high school, books in this area were ones I was quite immersed in—eighth grade I read science (the first was A Brief History of Time), tenth grade philosophy (the first was Twentieth-Century Western New Marxism), eleventh grade history (Stavrianos’s A Global History and Huang Rennyu’s The Great Chinese…
book reading China notes economy
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2005年12月14日
Annotations on the Analects…………

Culture & Public Commentary2005.12.13
Annotations on the Analects…………
Today I picked up a strange book at the Inward Bookstore and ended up reading it until I was almost out of breath…… Peking University Department of Philosophy Class of 1970 worker-peasant-soldier students: Annotations to The Analects, Zhonghua Book Company, 1974 Below I randomly excerpt two relatively short “criticisms”: 10·22 A friend dies, with nowhere to turn, and he says: “It is for me to bury him” [Notes] 1 Friend — refers to someone who shared Confucius’s aspirations and path; this person died and nobody took care of him, clearly a decadent aristocrat. [Translation] (Confucius’s) friend died, and no one took responsibility for him; (Confucius) said: “Let me take charge…
book reading notes history Confucianism
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2005年12月13日
[U.S.] R. P. Feynman: “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out”

History of Science & Scholarship2005.12.10
[U.S.] R. P. Feynman: “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out”
[美]R·P·费曼：《发现的乐趣》，张郁乎/译，湖南科学技术出版社2005年 P143-144 ……Scientific knowledge is a kind of capacity: it can do good things, and it can do bad things. But it does not by itself tell people how to use this capacity; obviously, this capacity has value—though that value may perhaps be denied on account of what he does. On my trip to Honolulu, I learned a way of formulating this universal human problem. It was in a Buddhist temple there. The caretaker gave visitors a brief explanation of Buddhism. Then he told the audience that he had some words to say to them, and he wanted them never to forget these words—he ended his speech with them, and…
book reading notes philosophy of science scientific spirit
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2005年12月10日
The Tree of Philosophy [US] Pang Sifen / author Zhai Pengxiao / translator Wang Lingyun / proofreader Guangxi Normal University Press 2005.5

Philosophy & Thought2005.09.09
The Tree of Philosophy [US] Pang Sifen / author Zhai Pengxiao / translator Wang Lingyun / proofreader Guangxi Normal University Press 2005.5
This is a rather good introductory book to philosophy. I wish I had found it sooner. I’ll write notes about it slowly later on. Latest Comments I benefited greatly from it. 2005-10-20 22:53:08 [Reply] I’ll try to find it and read it when I get the chance, and exchange impressions. I wonder how much more benefit I’ll get from it, hehe 🙂
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2005年9月9日
Silent Wonder

Life & Notes2005.09.07
Silent Wonder
Although ripples on the water are lively, only still water can best reflect the whole of that vividly colorful world. Those whose hearts are like still water are precisely the ones with the richest, most genuine, and most delicate emotions.Unless otherwise noted, all articles are original works by Gu Ba; please indicate “reposted from Suixuan” when reprinting. Or refer to the copyright statementThis article link: https://yilinhut.net/2005/09/07/98.html
everyday life book reading notes self
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2005年9月7日
Feynman: Poets Always Say That Scientists Cannot See the Beauty of the Planets—

History of Science & Scholarship2005.08.11
Feynman: Poets Always Say That Scientists Cannot See the Beauty of the Planets—
Poets always say that scientists cannot see the beauty of the stars—stars are, in the eyes of scientists, merely a mass of gathered gaseous atoms. Nothing is “merely” anything. I can see the stars in the desert night sky, and I can feel them too. But do I see them less than others, or more? The vast sky stirs my imagination—gazing up at this turning dome of heaven, with my small eyes I can catch the light that was emitted a million years ago…… or I can observe these stars through the big eye on Mount Palomar (the telescope), which can gather together the light emitted from the same source…
book reading science notes physics
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2005年8月11日
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind [Fr.] Gustave Le Bon / by

Culture & Public Commentary2005.07.31
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind [Fr.] Gustave Le Bon / by
《Crowds: A Study of the Popular Mind》[Fr.] Gustave Le Bon / author, Feng Keli / translator, Zhongyang Bianyi Press, 2004.1 This book, written in 1895, was judged by Freud to be “a truly great work” and “an exquisitely detailed description of the collective mentality”; the great American social psychologist Allport went even further, calling it the most “influential” work in the field of psychology to date. And yet this book has also drawn an enormous amount of controversy and refutation. Clearly, it is a book full of prejudice, but that cannot erase its profound insights and far-reaching influence. Le Bon points out that once an individual enters a group, his…
book reading notes politics human nature
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2005年7月31日
Perpetual Motion Machines and the Goldbach Conjecture / by Tian Song

History of Science & Scholarship2005.07.31
Perpetual Motion Machines and the Goldbach Conjecture / by Tian Song
《Perpetual Motion Machines and Goldbach’s Conjecture》By Tian Song, Shanghai Science and Technology Press, 2003.11 The most striking manifestation of the current public lack of scientific literacy is how readily people “believe” things; the core of the scientific spirit lies in “doubt”! But I often do not like to bring up this word, because advocating a spirit of “doubt” often leads to misunderstandings. For example, the abuse of doubt. Tian Song’s little book *Perpetual Motion Machines and Goldbach’s Conjecture: Science in the Jianghu* offers many other forms of misunderstanding the scientific spirit—namely, pseudoscience. The prevalence of pseudoscience is also closely related to the direction of public opinion in society. Society has…
book reading notes scientific spirit Copernicus
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2005年7月31日
A Short History of Nearly Everything [U.S.] Bill Bryson / by

History of Science & Scholarship2005.07.31
A Short History of Nearly Everything [U.S.] Bill Bryson / by
[American] Bill Bryson, author; translated by Yan Weiming and Chen Yong; Jieli Publishing House, 2005.2 I’ve just finished reading A Short History of Nearly Everything. As a popular science book that is both lively and entertaining, it is certainly well worth recommending. The Chinese translation has an impressive lineup of consultants: Xu Zhihong, Gan Zizhao, and He Zuoxiu; and of reviewers: Wu Guosheng, Liu Huajie, and Zhang Butian. Just seeing these familiar names is reason enough to buy a copy. However, both translators are literature scholars and translators from foreign-language institutes, rather than, like many of the translators in the First Push series, people with a scientific background. In the…
book reading science notes Wu Guosheng
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2005年7月31日