标签：Confucianism

The Qufu Church and the Time and Space of Chinese Tradition

Culture & Public Commentary2011.01.13
The Qufu Church and the Time and Space of Chinese Tradition
Today (yesterday), I was dragged by Classmate Slim to take part in a salon event, where we discussed the question of Confucianism and Christianity, East and West, using the incident of building a church in Qufu as our thread. Although I’ve lately been rather lazy and reluctant to move, I still went, after all, academic salons are activities I’ve always highly esteemed, and since a classmate was organizing it and had actively come to invite me, there was no reason to demur. I had originally planned merely to go along and make up the numbers, but when I arrived I discovered that there were in fact fewer participants than expected,…
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2011年1月13日
The Way of Balance and Breadth — From the Philosophy of Science and Technology Conference Back to the Yangzi Lectures

Philosophy & Thought2010.11.28
The Way of Balance and Breadth — From the Philosophy of Science and Technology Conference Back to the Yangzi Lectures
The first Beijing-area Graduate Student (Innovation) Forum in philosophy of science and technology was finally done and dusted. Although I didn’t really contribute much, I was nevertheless given the title of chair of the academic committee; before the event I was responsible for reviewing submissions, and during the conference I was in charge of chairing one session and taking part in the comments. What I had originally been assigned to comment on was suli’s paper, but suli seems to have suffered some kind of accident all of a sudden (bless him/her), and didn’t come today, so there was no chance to say anything. A bit of a pity. Based on…
philosophy philosophy of science phenomenology truth
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2010年11月28日
Reviving the Culture of the Court Historian——The Institution of the Court Historian as a Religious System

Culture & Public Commentary2010.11.09
Reviving the Culture of the Court Historian——The Institution of the Court Historian as a Religious System
Earlier I wrote a paper on “natural history,” but it was rather hasty, and there is still much work to be done. On the one hand, the inner connection between the rise of natural history and the rise of historiography in modern Western thought still awaits examination from the standpoint of intellectual history; on the other hand, the relationship between history and nature also deserves further philosophical reflection. Senior Brother Ke suggested that I read Foucault’s The Order of Things; he seemed to mean that the book would support the translation “natural science” [博物学], but when I flipped through it roughly, it was clearly supporting my line of thought. In…
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2010年11月9日
“The Two Cultures”: Science and Literature, or Science and the Humanities? — Reflections on Liu Bing’s Lecture

History of Science & Scholarship2010.10.29
“The Two Cultures”: Science and Literature, or Science and the Humanities? — Reflections on Liu Bing’s Lecture
Today Teacher Liu Bing’s topic was “STS and Science Communication in Drama and Fiction.” He first introduced some background on what Snow called the “two cultures,” and then discussed three dramatic works: *Life of Galileo*, *The Physicists*, and *Copenhagen*. There wasn’t time to talk about the fiction section, and the presentation was mainly a display of examples rather than a line of argument, so I’ll write my reflections on one issue from the background material. When Snow spoke of the “two cultures,” he meant scientific culture and literary culture. Teacher Liu mentioned that nowadays we more often speak of “science and the humanities.” “Humanities” is much broader in meaning than…
culture science Confucianism science communication
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2010年10月29日
The benevolent are invincible: some associations

Culture & Public Commentary2010.10.09
The benevolent are invincible: some associations
Sensitive words have won the Sensitive Nobel Prize; in any case, that is worth celebrating. Unfortunately, China still seems not to have a “citizen” who has won the Sensitive Nobel Prize. A lot of classmates on the campus network have once again dug up Mr. Sensitive Word’s “final statement” from the eve of last Christmas to share. It was titled “I Have No Enemies,” and of course the relevant information was quickly harmonized. I ought to have reposted this article, but for the safety of my blog, I decided against it. To express remembrance and respect, I will at least quote one line here; I won’t note the source, since…
culture freedom politics Confucianism
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2010年10月9日
Lecture 46 of the Keke Forum: Professor Li Ruiquan of Taiwan on the Ethical Distinction Between Reproductive Cloning and Therapeutic Cloning

History of Science & Scholarship2007.12.19
Lecture 46 of the Keke Forum: Professor Li Ruiquan of Taiwan on the Ethical Distinction Between Reproductive Cloning and Therapeutic Cloning
**Lecture 46 of the KeKe Forum: Professor Li Ruiquan of Taiwan on the Ethical Distinction between Reproductive Cloning and Therapeutic Cloning** **Lecture 46 of the Peking University Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology** **Time:** Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 3:00–5:00 p.m. **Venue:** Meeting Room, First Floor, Department of Philosophy, Peking University (Fourth Courtyard) **Speaker:** Professor Li Ruiquan (Director, Institute of Philosophy, National Central University, Taiwan) **Topic:** The Ethical Distinction between Reproductive Copying and Therapeutic Copying Today’s lecture was quite interesting. I have read some books on bioethical topics like cloned humans before, and what Mr. Li introduced today was not unfamiliar to me. What was somewhat special…
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2007年12月19日
On the “Naturalness” of Laozi and Zhuangzi

Life & Notes2007.10.16
On the “Naturalness” of Laozi and Zhuangzi
Recently I helped a new first-year junior sister look over a paper, and in passing I jotted down a question here. This question is rather naive, but many people still make this mistake. Quite naturally, like many beginners and even some scholars who comment on Laozi and Zhuangzi only in part, she understood “自然” as the “自然” in “自然界” (“nature” as the natural world). But in ancient China and ancient Greece, the word “自然” did not have this meaning at all (see my earlier article “Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy and the Scientific Spirit”). Exactly what the word meant in ancient Greece may still require detailed textual verification, but in ancient…
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2007年10月16日
[U.S.] Paul Woodruff: “Reverence—A Forgotten Virtue” (Reverence) —★

Philosophy & Thought2007.08.29
[U.S.] Paul Woodruff: “Reverence—A Forgotten Virtue” (Reverence) —★
[US] Paul Woodruff: Reverence—A Forgotten Virtue, translated by Lin Bin and Ma Hongqi, Commercial Press, July 2007, 14 yuan—★ I personally highly recommend this book! The topic of this book is very much to my taste: “Reverence”—that is, what we have all along been talking about as “敬畏” (awe and reverence). The author discusses Reverence from the standpoint of virtue ethics—that is, from the perspective of what I have all along been calling virtue ethics—which is quite to the point, and says many things I have long wanted to say but have not yet said. I also very much agree with the author’s use of Reverence to interpret the Confucian…
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2007年8月29日
On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: An Interpretation of the University

Culture & Public Commentary2007.05.01
On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: An Interpretation of the University
One Interpretation of the University 2007-04-28 09:19:49 http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/48c5bb42010009ql Tags: university Confucianism education general education personality formation one interpretation of the university Mei Yiqi [Tsinghua Journal] (The main text omitted) Comments (16)┆Quotation┆Reads (45)┆Circle┆Print┆Rewarded Report Article Comments The following comments from netizens represent only their personal views and do not represent the views or position of Sina.com [anonymous] Xinzhai Old Jiang 2007-04-28 16:39:14 Tired from working, I’ve come up to chat a few words: my office is Xinzhai, so I took it as a condition for my screen name, because among the teachers working in Xinzhai, I’m the only one surnamed Jiang. Next door are Mingzhai and Shanzhai, and in front are…
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2007年5月1日
The Religious Questions I Care About

Philosophy & Thought2007.01.02
The Religious Questions I Care About
Clearly, my interest in and concern with religion is not limited to Christianity; it also includes other religions, and even the concept of religion itself. Tracing it back to its source, I first began to care about religious questions in high school. Back then I had already been thinking about the “crisis of faith” in contemporary society. At the time, I lamented the absence of faith in contemporary China—Confucian culture had been destroyed, and Marxism was also being neglected. Then I still styled myself a Marxist (strangely enough, to this day I still style myself a believer in Marxism; in a few days, if I get the chance, I’ll come…
philosophy religion Kant pluralism
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2007年1月2日