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[Repost] Do We Need a Revival of Faith? (Xu Youyu)

Life & Notes2007.09.29
[Repost] Do We Need a Revival of Faith? (Xu Youyu)
http://vip.bokee.com/20070924389448.html I happened upon this article quite by chance, and several passages are quite interesting. I might as well repost it here, and in passing introduce Xu Youyu’s blog as well—Xu Youyu’s blog was also discovered by me in a very accidental way, in a very accidental place, though now I only go there once in a great while… The blog column on “Blog China” really is a mess; not to mention all the clutter on the right side of the page, the articles themselves are full of all kinds of inexplicable automatic links that one has to check. The comments are also far too chaotic; in this state, it…
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2007年9月29日
Bits and Pieces, Episode 1

Philosophy & Thought2007.08.29
Bits and Pieces, Episode 1
Thinking of things in passing from time to time, it seems not bad to jot down a few stray words and phrases. However, if I were to post every little paragraph as a separate entry, my blog would inevitably become cluttered and fragmentary, so I will wait until each collection of stray words has accumulated more than a thousand characters before posting it. Below is the first entry. l If one gives up Darwinism and believes that survival and reproduction are not necessarily the most important, or even the only important things. Then, for a nation or a culture, seeking to live and survive is certainly important, but by no…
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2007年8月29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
James Lovelock: Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth

History of Science & Scholarship2007.08.03
James Lovelock: Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
[English] James Lovelock: _Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth_, translated by Xiao Xianjing and Fan Xiangdong, Shanghai People’s Publishing House, June 2007, 21 yuan Preface, page 1: The word “Gaia” comes from my friend and neighbor—the novelist William Golding. He believed that such an idea should be named after the earth goddess in ancient Greek mythology. Preface, pages 12–13: Ancient belief and modern knowledge fuse together in an awe-inspiring and exciting way. With this fusion, astronauts, with their own eyes, and we through television, witness Earth’s full splendor and charm as it appears against the backdrop of the blackness of space. Yet however intense this feeling may be,…
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2007年8月3日
[Eng] John Cottingham: “Is Life Meaningful?”

Philosophy & Thought2007.07.20
[Eng] John Cottingham: “Is Life Meaningful?”
[英]John Cottingham: “Is Life Meaningful?”, translated by Wang Nan, Guangxi Normal University Press, May 2007, 16 yuan. This is also one of the books in the “Xingsi Essays Series, Pocket Reading” collection; it was the third book I took with me to Shanxi, but I didn’t have time to read it there, so today I casually took care of it. The theme is the meaning of life, and the author’s line of thought and point of view seem close to mine: from science to philosophy to religion. The range he covers is basically also within my own reach; it’s almost as if I wrote the article myself— which also means…
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2007年7月20日
[Reposted] The Influence of Color on People

Life & Notes2007.07.19
[Reposted] The Influence of Color on People
Today I went to buy wall paint (given the price and other considerations, I’m still thinking of not using wallpaper), and I went straight to Dulux’s flagship store to have the color mixed. The countless colors available for me to choose from (computer color matching) really made me dizzy for a while…… Whether you call it melancholy or repressed, the main tone was decided, in any case, to be blue. But pure blue didn’t seem quite right either, so I agonized for quite a while over whether it should lean green or lean purple. Just as I was staring at the purple shades, a shop assistant said to me: “Is…
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2007年7月19日
This Issue’s Music: The Pure Land Dhāraṇī (in a Tibetan Folk Song Style)

Life & Notes2007.06.05
This Issue’s Music: The Pure Land Dhāraṇī (in a Tibetan Folk Song Style)
http://buddha.goodweb.cn/music/musicdownload/jingtu_tln.mp3 Pure Land Dhāraṇī (in the style of a Tibetan folk song) http://buddha.goodweb.cn/music/musictxt/wangsheng.asp The one posted above is incomplete; the one below is long enough, though it’s a bit large, and it stuttered in the middle: http://buddha.goodweb.cn/music/musicdownload/jingtu_tln2.mp3 This installment of music continues the journey eastward; after the guqin, let’s go farther west and find a piece of Tibetan music. Tibet has always been one of the places I most yearn for. I seem to have posted a Tibetan folk song before. This time I originally wanted to do “A Sister Drum,” but listening to the “Six-Character Great Bright Mantra” inside A Sister Drum, I thought it would be better to…
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2007年6月5日
Outline for a Discussion of the Philosophy of Religion: Does the Sacred Reality in Religious Experience Really Exist? How Can We Know?

Philosophy & Thought2007.04.27
Outline for a Discussion of the Philosophy of Religion: Does the Sacred Reality in Religious Experience Really Exist? How Can We Know?
I am a scholar of philosophy of science, so let me begin with a few examples related to science: First question: Can we experience “force,” or how do we experience it? The concept of “force” is used extremely widely: we speak of gravity, pressure, magnetic force, tensile force, and so on. But how do we experience or come to know the existence of “force”? In fact, we do not directly feel “force.” When we touch or weigh something with our hands, we may say that we feel pressure or gravity, but in fact all that happens is that our sense of touch is stimulated in certain ways. And at other…
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2007年4月27日
Robert E.D. Clark: “Science and Christian Faith”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.01.26
Robert E.D. Clark: “Science and Christian Faith”
Robert E.D. Clark: “Science and Christian Faith,” trans. Huang Huo, Life Meaning Press This odd little book was picked up secondhand on Kongfuzi, and it seems not to be a proper publication, because apart from the author, translator, and publisher, all other publication information, including the date of publication, is missing. The publisher is based in Hong Kong, but the book is in simplified Chinese. Even so, it comes from the renowned Catholic Fu Jen University, not from some ordinary street-preaching pamphlet, and it has a certain scholarly quality. Page105 and following Let us list some of the ways faith enters into science: 1. Scientists must believe that there…
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2007年1月26日
[U.S.] George Marsden: “Understanding American Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism”

Culture & Public Commentary2007.01.26
[U.S.] George Marsden: “Understanding American Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism”
[U.S.] George Marsden: *Understanding American Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism* Xing Ding posted on 2007-01-26 00:20:35 [U.S.] George Marsden: *Understanding American Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism*, translated by Song Jijie, proofread by Chen Zuoren, Central Compilation & Translation Press, May 2004 Introduction, p. 1 Fundamentalists are evangelical believers who are furious about certain things. That sounds simple, yet it is extremely precise. Jerry Falwell even took it as a vivid definition of fundamentalism. Introduction, p. 4 The basic beliefs of evangelicalism include (1) the Reformation doctrine of the Bible’s ultimate authority; (2) the Bible’s record of God’s real, historical acts of salvation; (3) the salvation of eternal life on the basis of Christ’s atonement;…
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2007年1月26日