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[US] Jacques Thillo, Keith C. Lassman: Ethics and Life (9th Edition)

Philosophy & Thought2008.10.01
[US] Jacques Thillo, Keith C. Lassman: Ethics and Life (9th Edition)
[US] Jacques Thirou, Keith Klusmann: Ethics and Life (9th Edition), translated by Cheng Lixian, Liu Jian, et al., reviewed by Zhou Fucheng, World Book Publishing Company, August 2008, 58 yuan Not recommended. Although I only flipped through it for about half an hour before putting it aside. But I can confirm that this book is not to my taste. First let’s look at the promotional slip attached to the cover (what is the technical term for this thing?): “On February 2, 2006, the very day the revised manuscript of the ninth edition of this book was completed, Professor Jacques Thirou suddenly passed away, leaving the world this labor-of-love work that…
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2008年10月1日
[Spanish] Fernando Savater: “The Invitation to Ethics” —★

Philosophy & Thought2008.09.21
[Spanish] Fernando Savater: “The Invitation to Ethics” —★
[西]Fernando Savater: “An Invitation to Ethics,” translated by Yushi Yang, Peking University Press2008, 9月,20 yuan——★ As for the earlier An Invitation to Philosophy (see https://yilinhut.net/2007/11/01/1070.html), I had a very high opinion of it; the author’s better-known An Invitation to Ethics was also long anticipated. It finally went on sale a few days ago, and after buying it I finished it in a little over an hour. It is indeed quite good, and worth recommending. Printed at the top of the cover of this book is the sentence: “The only purpose of ethics is to strive to improve oneself, rather than to drone on condemning others.” Even if I had not…
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2008年9月21日
Re-reading “Big Questions—A Brief Introduction to Philosophy”

Philosophy & Thought2008.08.26
Re-reading “Big Questions—A Brief Introduction to Philosophy”
The second edition of *Big Questions* has been on the market for some time. During the Olympics, on a whim, I read it all over again from start to finish, and was filled with a thousand thoughts and feelings. The first Chinese edition of *Big Questions* came out in 2004. That was when I had just entered university, just begun taking philosophy courses, and was fortunate enough to encounter this book. I bought the book roughly in the second week of classes, the exact date being around September 20, 2004. Why do I remember it so precisely? Because in the forum for the “Introduction to Philosophy” course at the time,…
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2008年8月26日
A Tour Guide to the Mathematical World — “Two-Dimensional at Home and Abroad”

History of Science & Scholarship2008.06.26
A Tour Guide to the Mathematical World — “Two-Dimensional at Home and Abroad”
This is the first time I’ve been invited to write and submit a book review, and in the spirit of this year’s Guangdong College Entrance Examination essay topic, I took on the task~ Writing an article for submission is painful. That piece “A Brief Talk on the Popularization of Philosophy,” though it was published too, had been written rather casually at the time; writing specifically for submission really was a first for me, and it seems I’m still not quite suited to it. Ideally I could have written it better, but on the one hand I was rushing to finish it before my graduation trip, and on the other hand…
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2008年6月26日
[U.S.] Erich Fromm: The Art of Loving——☆

Culture & Public Commentary2008.05.31
[U.S.] Erich Fromm: The Art of Loving——☆
[U.S.]Erich Fromm: The Art of Loving, translated by Li Jianming , Shanghai Translation Publishing House2008, April,15 yuan—☆ Because The Art of Loving is easy to find online in electronic form, which saves me quite a bit of typing work, I therefore include more block quotations. The passages I would have selected if I had typed them myself are marked with underlining; the especially important parts are marked in bold; and my comments, as always, are set in Kai type. Preface, page1 This book will surely disappoint every reader who expects to derive from it the secret of mastering the art of loving. Quite the contrary, this book wants to…
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2008年5月31日
An Overview of Theories of Human Origins (Animal Biology Assignment)

History of Science & Scholarship2008.05.28
An Overview of Theories of Human Origins (Animal Biology Assignment)
The second assignment for *Animal Biology* took me a full two days and more, the greater part of which was spent fruitlessly searching Chinese Academic Journals for reference papers. In the end I once again discovered that nine out of ten papers written by Chinese people are garbage; books are still useful. And among books, only those written by foreigners are useful. Although the bibliography includes two Chinese books, one a textbook and the other one I bought specially, both clearly plagiarize whole passages from Richard Leakey’s *The Origin of Humankind*. But does saying that a book is “compiled” rather than “authored” mean one can omit notes? Even if “compiled”…
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2008年5月28日
[U.S.] Deborah Tannen: “Men and Women in Intimate Conversation” — ★

Culture & Public Commentary2008.05.23
[U.S.] Deborah Tannen: “Men and Women in Intimate Conversation” — ★
[U.S.]Deborah Tannen: *You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation*, translated by Wu Xingyi, Nanfang Publishing House, 2008——★ During my period of seclusion, I didn’t read very many books, and I don’t want to go through them one by one. This one book, however, I am willing to spend some time excerpting, since it also has a direct bearing on what I am going to write next. Of course, this book is by no means the only one that talks about the differences between men and women. Before it, there had already been highly publicized books such as *Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus*, and books of…
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2008年5月23日
[Western] Ortega y Gasset: The Revolt of the Masses —☆

Culture & Public Commentary2008.02.14
[Western] Ortega y Gasset: The Revolt of the Masses —☆
[西]Ortega y Gasset: “The Revolt of the Masses,” translated by Liu Xunlian and Tong Dezhi, Jilin People’s Publishing House, October 2004, 16 yuan——☆ I read this book on the train while I was going home; thanks to a delay, I happened to finish it in one sitting. But the excerpts below were not entered into the computer until the last day before I returned to Beijing, which shows how completely I wasted my time at home. This is a wonderful book, so much so that I wanted to classify it as a “★” recommendation. After much hesitation, I lowered it by one grade, because I felt that the book’s mode…
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2008年2月14日
Impressions and Notes on Heidegger and Schopenhauer

Philosophy & Thought2008.01.11
Impressions and Notes on Heidegger and Schopenhauer
This semester I only took these two courses: Heidegger’s *Being and Time* and Schopenhauer’s *The World as Will and Representation*. The day before yesterday I finally finished my paper on schedule, so this semester can be counted as a complete success. I still didn’t take these two courses very seriously; I skipped more than half the classes, and I only finished both books at the very last minute. But since the teacher for the Heidegger course was only giving rather general, introductory explanations, and the Schopenhauer course was even more centered on student presentations, skipping class didn’t really matter. At least I seized the opportunity to grit my teeth and…
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2008年1月11日
[U.S.] Lin Wengang, ed.: Media Ecology

AI & the Future of Technology2007.12.04
[U.S.] Lin Wengang, ed.: Media Ecology
[U.S.] Lin Wengang, ed., *Media Ecology: Intellectual Development and Multiple Perspectives*, translated by He Daokuan, Peking University Press, October 2007, 45 yuan This is another book in the Media Ecology translation series, a collection of essays on the development of media ecology. The core of the collection consists of several introductions to figures of major significance in the “intellectual development” of media ecology. The first figure is Mumford, the second is Ellul—there are two essays introducing Ellul, the second of which focuses specifically on his theological perspective. The third figure is Innis; the fourth is McLuhan; the fifth is Neil Postman, and here almost all of Postman’s important works are…
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2007年12月4日