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Some Thoughts on the Future of Energy

AI & the Future of Technology2010.12.26
Some Thoughts on the Future of Energy
Today the science-technology-philosophy group discussed energy issues. I’ve jotted down some thoughts here. The present energy system cannot possibly be sustained forever; within a few decades major adjustments will have to be made, and this is beyond dispute. But how exactly to adjust it, and how to anticipate and act, remain questions to be explored. The usual modern Western mode of imagining things is Christian + classical mechanics. By the Christian mode of imagining, I mean a messianic complex: the belief that human beings will eventually be saved, that our fallenness and incompetence do not really matter, and that there will always be some savior who comes to save…
philosophy technology Heidegger politics
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2010年12月26日
Postscript After Grading the 2010 General History of Science Exam

Teaching & Courses2010.06.21
Postscript After Grading the 2010 General History of Science Exam
This time I was in charge of grading all three essay questions, and since I also had to watch the World Cup, the grading went a bit slowly. But the two teaching assistants who graded the short-answer section together had already taken a week to get it to me, and they hadn’t arranged the order of the exam papers for me at all, nor had they prepared the electronic roster properly, so my speed was probably still pretty good. This time, because I had to assign grades for the graduating class first, I rushed through the papers of the class of ’06, and in the process fixed the grading scale….
history of science course Peking University Christianity
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2010年6月21日
Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 10-01-16 [Final Issue]

Life & Notes2010.01.16
Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 10-01-16 [Final Issue]
At exactly 9 o’clock, after taking our seats, in order to let the waiter notice that there were people in the non-smoking area, I pressed the order button first. Not long after, a waiter poked his head in and looked around, then brought in a glass of water. But after that there was no further movement; not until 9:41 did classmate Bai arrive, and I had no choice but to call the waiter over to place the order, otherwise who knows how long it would have taken before he remembered me…… Classmate Bai sat there for a whole morning, leafing through the *Introduction to Phenomenology* I had brought, and also…
everyday life culture China Christianity
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2010年1月16日
Grades and Comments on the First Question of the Second Assignment in General History of Science

Teaching & Courses2009.12.13
Grades and Comments on the First Question of the Second Assignment in General History of Science
(The topic was a self-devised one on the relationship between the Scientific Revolution and Christianity.) 00846142 90 Viewing it from the standpoint of a believer is not bad, but you should also keep in mind that this is a paper on history of science, and should first and foremost engage closely with the “Scientific Revolution” and the relevant historical context. The paper’s argument is not very clear overall and is rather essayistic in style, but it does grasp some key points. The attitude is serious, and it feels pretty good. The bibliography is a little thin; among books on science and religion, The Soul of Science is not really a…
history of science course Scientific Revolution Christianity
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2009年12月13日
Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-05-02

Life & Notes2009.05.02
Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-05-02
Today the throne was actually occupied; apparently it had been booked two days in advance. So I had no choice but to sit in the middle seat by the window next to it instead of in the corner. If a stranger happened to come by looking for me and failed to find me, then there was nothing to be done. This time it was even more miserable than last time: there was practically no one at all. Of course, it is perfectly normal for comrades to be busy and lazy in the latter part of the semester, and this sort of fluctuation in turnout was something I had expected from…
philosophy everyday life history Christianity
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2009年5月2日
“Anthropocentrism” and “Pride” as the Root of Sin: A Collaborative Research Proposal

Philosophy & Thought2007.11.10
“Anthropocentrism” and “Pride” as the Root of Sin: A Collaborative Research Proposal
The team-based project topic mentioned last semester (see 团体研究可以考虑考虑) has finally begun to take shape. It seems that because there are hardly any people doing philosophy of science and technology, the teachers have roughly planned to support one project in political philosophy and one in religious studies. Since an excellent term-paper author is needed to take the lead, the religious-studies part is basically a matter for Yali. The elder brother recommended that I also join the religious-studies team, and I am very grateful for that. Of course, whether I can actually join still depends on their decision. Yali originally wanted to set up a project on investigating Haidian Church. Setting…
philosophy freedom human nature modernity
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2007年11月10日
Zhao Lin: “Between God and Newton — A Collection of Zhao Lin’s Lectures (1)”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.08.31
Zhao Lin: “Between God and Newton — A Collection of Zhao Lin’s Lectures (1)”
Zhao Lin: “Between God and Newton—Zhao Lin Lecture Collection (1),” Dongfang Publishing House, May 2007, 21 yuan Zhao Lin is indeed quite good. I hear he has also appeared on the Lecture Room program; that kind of venue really ought to have more talks like this. This collection gathers lectures Zhao Lin delivered at universities around China. The audience was neither students in the philosophy department nor ordinary TV viewers, but rather people with a certain knowledge background who enjoy thinking through questions—or, to put it another way, ordinary university students. Taken as a whole, these talks are essentially popular introductions to philosophy and Christianity, the most elementary sort of…
philosophy book reading notes Christianity
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2007年8月31日
This Episode’s Music: Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Organ)

Life & Notes2007.06.15
This Episode’s Music: Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Organ)
http://csm01.csu.edu.tw/0361/Instru-Organ-Bach-565.mp3 I hunted down quite a few pieces of music that sounded good to me recently, but I couldn’t find any of them online, and I can’t even get into Google Pages anymore—it really drives me mad. Oh well, never mind; I’ll just post something I found before at random. Back when I was choosing Bach pieces, I hesitated between the harpsichord and the organ. This time I might as well just post the organ one too~ The piano is said to cover the whole range, but the organ is even wider. If the piano is the king of instruments, then the organ is a god—it really is generally only…
everyday life religion Christianity
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2007年6月15日
[Repost] The Progressive View of History and the View of History as Redemption (Weiming BBS)

Life & Notes2007.06.03
[Repost] The Progressive View of History and the View of History as Redemption (Weiming BBS)
i—— When Professor Wu was lecturing, he said that the progressive view of history is the secularized version of the history of salvation, but I didn’t quite understand it. Could some expert help explain it?? I’d be extremely grateful 🙂 Gǔ Huà—— Ancient people’s views of history rarely involved linear progress; more often they took all kinds of cyclical forms—either saying that history was declining ever more deeply (for example, from a Golden Age to an Iron Age), or saying that history would be an endless cycle (as in Heraclitus’s “Great Year”). In the East, cyclical theories were even more common. In short, the progressive view of history is a…
everyday life history Christianity Enlightenment
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2007年6月3日
First Assignment for the Special Topic on Ethical Questions of Life and Death: On Train-Hitting-Person Cases and DDE

Philosophy & Thought2007.03.19
First Assignment for the Special Topic on Ethical Questions of Life and Death: On Train-Hitting-Person Cases and DDE
First Assignment for the Bioethics Special Topic: On the Train Running People Over and DDE DDE（Doctrine of Double Effect, the doctrine of double effect）： When some actions inevitably bring about double consequences, namely one intended good result and another foreseeable bad result, the doctrine of double effect holds that such actions are good (that is, necessary under natural law) if and only if all of the following conditions are met at the same time: 1） The action must not be immoral 2） The bad consequence must not be the means to the good consequence 3） The intention of the action must be directed only toward the good consequence, although the accompanying…
philosophy Christianity virtue choice
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2007年3月19日