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The Allegorical Meaning of the Fruit of Wisdom in Genesis Concerning the Fundamental Nature of Humanity

Culture & Public Commentary2005.12.07
The Allegorical Meaning of the Fruit of Wisdom in Genesis Concerning the Fundamental Nature of Humanity
Adam and Eve, because they secretly ate of the “fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,” had their eyes opened; they knew that they were naked, so they covered themselves with fig leaves. When God discovered that they had come to know shame, He knew that they had eaten the fruit of wisdom and discerned good and evil, and therefore punished them by casting them down into the mortal world to become human beings…… This is the Bible’s account of the origin of humanity. It is very uninteresting to talk about the conflict between the Bible and evolution; let us instead look at the profoundly thought-provoking…
culture faith religion human nature
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2005年12月7日
The Shortcomings of “Eradicating Feudal Superstition”

Culture & Public Commentary2005.12.04
The Shortcomings of “Eradicating Feudal Superstition”
Nowadays, when Chinese people with a bit of culture mention “feudal superstition,” they mostly grind their teeth and radiate murderous intent, striking an attitude of not stopping until every last trace has been eradicated. Yet on closer reflection, this hides certain shortcomings. In modern civilization, science and technology have attained supreme and unquestioned dominance, but this has also given rise to the predicament of “value” finding no place to stand. Why should people speak of morality? Why does society need ethical norms? — these were originally such self-evident questions, yet they have become a conspicuous source of perplexity in modern civilization. Science can only tell us what “is,” but it…
philosophy culture China tradition
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2005年12月4日
Remove the dross, keep the essence?

Culture & Public Commentary2005.09.16
Remove the dross, keep the essence?
I often hear the line “remove the dross, retain the essence,” and it always makes me feel uncomfortable. Now I’ve finally realized that this attitude itself is profoundly problematic! Follow the logic of that sentence, and on the surface you seem to be looking for “essence,” but in reality you are always picking out “dross.” People take such delight in pointing out faults that they forget what they ought to be doing instead! A whole pile of fruit, some sweet and some rotten—are you “removing the dross, retaining the essence”? First, there are so many rotten ones that you’ll never finish sorting them out; second, if you keep digging and…
culture tradition value
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2005年9月16日
Midterm Exam for Introduction to Civilization and Environment

Life & Notes2005.07.31
Midterm Exam for Introduction to Civilization and Environment
1. Enumerate the major achievements attained by early Holocene Chinese ancestors in the realms of social economy and spiritual culture, and, on the basis of the several stagewise leaps in the development of human productive forces, attempt to demonstrate why human society thereafter entered an era of accelerated development. The early Neolithic cultures of China in the Holocene were spread across the country, including dry-farming cultures in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the Liao River and Hai River basins, irrigated rice agriculture in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, as well as hunter-gatherer zones distributed throughout the country. China is the place of…
everyday life culture China history
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2005年7月31日