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Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-05-09

Life & Notes2009.05.09
Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-05-09
Today’s salon was just as bleak; dr didn’t come either T_T. Only byz and xxj showed up to lend support, in the afternoon and evening respectively. But byz basically didn’t talk about anything; he spent ages reading books, while I was writing the reading notes from the previous post. As for xxj, who just left, we didn’t chat much either, including the relationship between life and reading (I believe reading is itself a part of life and should not be split off into some other activity that is either above or below life), and we also touched on a few questions about games (and childhood), as well as some strange…
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2009年5月9日
There Are No Experts in Philosophy

Philosophy & Thought2009.01.01
There Are No Experts in Philosophy
I said very early on—sophomore year, maybe freshman year?—something like, “I don’t want to be an expert; I want only to be a master.” At first it was just something said privately among friends, but then it spread, and so I could only regard it as public speech. Of course I have always been able to stand behind that sentence. It is based on how I situated myself and on my understanding of philosophy. Over these years I have, I think, come to understand philosophy more deeply, and so now I can offer some more penetrating interpretation of what I said back then. First, we need to ask: what exactly…
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2009年1月1日
[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
[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
I am the man who will become the Pirate King!

Life & Notes2007.03.24
I am the man who will become the Pirate King!
I Am the Man Who Is Going to Become the Pirate King! The One Piece anime has already reached episode 300. I only started watching it over this winter break, and I watched the more than 200 previous episodes and several theatrical films in one go. Of course, it is a very good anime. The first 200-odd episodes are the most exciting, especially the first few dozen. And like other very long anime series, the further it goes, the more the plot begins to feel drawn out, and the tension of the story lessens and less. This is probably due to the interference of commercialization. But I am still full…
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2007年3月24日
On CCTV Airing a Paranormal Video

Life & Notes2007.02.08
On CCTV Airing a Paranormal Video
About CCTV Broadcasting Paranormal Videos I happened to see a QQ News item, http://news.qq.com/a/20070208/000611.htm To say whether what CCTV is promoting is “pseudoscience” is hard to say, but one thing can be certain: it is not promoting science, and even less the spirit of science. I already mentioned the badness of CCTV’s “Exploration·Discovery” program in an earlier article, The Zodiac, Easter Island, and the Predicament of Popular Science. I have always recommended: if you want to know more about science, it is best to watch less television. Whether it is “Exploration·Discovery” or “Discovery,” the contribution to the public understanding of science is probably extremely negative. I am less and less…
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2007年2月8日
The Actual Effect of the Philosophy Popularization Display Boards

Life & Notes2006.09.17
The Actual Effect of the Philosophy Popularization Display Boards
Today, as soon as I got off the train in Beijing, I headed straight to the Ditan Book Fair. Going on a wild book-buying spree is the best way to brighten one’s mood; Sanlian Bookstore and many other academic presses were all at 50% off, so I bought a whole pile in one go…… And of course, while I was at it, I had to take a look at how the display boards I wrote had turned out. What I provided was the (original) text and the (excerpted from Philosophy Coffeehouse) illustrations; the boards were produced by the Beijing Philosophical Society and exhibited at Ditan in the Social Science Popularization…
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2006年9月17日
What Do I “Want” to Do?

Life & Notes2006.01.03
What Do I “Want” to Do?
Heaven knows how I still had the leisure to write an essay during final-exam season. Contemporary politics and economics have already been smashed to pieces, tomorrow’s English is hopeless too, and I can’t even finish reading Chinese philosophy…… Sigh. But today during a group chat CG mentioned that he wanted to “bring social, political, and economic studies into one coherent whole,” of course just as casual chatter, but it made me think of some questions. Someone once shouted the slogan “bringing Chinese, Western, and Marxist thought into one coherent whole,” and very soon someone else coined the matching line, “boasting of smashing through ancient and modern cattle.” To shout about…
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2006年1月3日