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Defending Science with Religion.

History of Science & Scholarship2006.06.22
Defending Science with Religion.
In a reply on Mr. Liu’s blog: http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/485ea879010003xs#comment For me, the objectivity and credibility of science are things I will certainly defend. One extremely naive reason for defending them is this: if science is not trustworthy and objective, then what is more trustworthy and objective? If there are things in the world that can be trusted, science is surely one of the best candidates—unless one believes that nothing in the world is reliable at all, in which case thoroughgoing relativism, skepticism, and nihilism are all unassailable. I am willing to defend science in a manner similar to Kant’s defense of religion—religion brings you hope; if not in religion, where else…
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2006年6月22日
The Reference Books Related to “Science and Religion” Currently on My Bookshelf

History of Science & Scholarship2006.05.01
The Reference Books Related to “Science and Religion” Currently on My Bookshelf
Author Title Translator Editor Publisher Publication date Price Series [UK]Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker Wang Delun Chongqing Publishing House, Hainan Publishing House May 2005 22 [US]Jonathan Wells Icons of Evolution — Science or Myth? Qian Kun, Tang Liming China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing House April 2006 18 Frontier Popular Science Translation Series (Note: there seems to have been an unpublished comment by Teacher Jiang of Xinzhai, but it seems to have been lost.) Gu 2006-05-23 15:14:44 I’m ashamed, ashamed, ashamed… Buying books, piling up books, and reading books are my personal hobby, but I know full well that buying a lot of books, or even reading a…
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2006年5月1日
Science—Seen from a Religious Perspective

History of Science & Scholarship2006.04.03
Science—Seen from a Religious Perspective
Human beings are descended from animals; one could even say that human beings are a kind of animal. Of course, human beings are not only animals. Human beings have their own distinctive strengths; their power to understand the world and transform the world is incomparable with that of animals, and rational thought and judgment are the special hallmarks of humanity. To regard human beings merely as a kind of animal is indeed one-sided. But to view human beings from the standpoint from which we view animals, and to examine the commonalities and similarities between human beings and animals, is obviously also highly meaningful. It helps us examine human nature from…
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2006年4月3日
Colors of the Wind

Life & Notes2006.03.20
Colors of the Wind
Disney animated film 《Pocahontas》 theme song “Colors of the Wind,” a song of awe before nature~ Colors of the Wind You think I'm an ignorant savage and you've been so many places. I guess it must be so but still I cannot see. If the savage one is me, how can there be so much that you don't know, you don't know, you don't know. You think you own whatever land you land on. The earth is just a dead thing you can claim. But I know every rock and tree and creature. Has a life…
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2006年3月20日
[U.S.] Gerald Holton: “Science and Anti-Science”

History of Science & Scholarship2006.02.19
[U.S.] Gerald Holton: “Science and Anti-Science”
[US] Gerald Holton: “Science and Anti-Science,” translated by Fan Dainian and Chen Yanghui, Jiangxi Education Press, January 1999 P128 p. 161 On the other hand, “cyclicists” often imagine science as an activity that is not goal-directed, progressive, or cumulative.………… Cyclicists are more common among social scientists and historians; and, unlike linearists, they believe that science is driven conspicuously or even primarily by social processes. In extreme cases, they think that science is merely the performance of some general spirit of the age, or even chiefly the product of “social construction,” essentially no different from the game of chess. Generally speaking, for such views that are opposed in their fundamental aims,…
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2006年2月19日
[Eng.] Raymond Firth: “Human Types,” translated by Fei Xiaotong

Culture & Public Commentary2006.02.10
[Eng.] Raymond Firth: “Human Types,” translated by Fei Xiaotong
[UK] Raymond Firth: “Human Types,” translated by Fei Xiaotong, Huaxia Publishing House, January 2002 Page 124 Science and magic are usually regarded as the two extremes of the rational and the irrational. Yet if human behavior is sharply divided into two parts, the rational and the irrational, this boundary is not easy to draw. Take, for example, the relation between technical knowledge and magic: we see that in various kinds of attitudes and activities, there are elements of both rationality and irrationality. Some of the substances used in healing magic do seem to have curative effects. Other healing magicians are enthusiastic about reasonable experiments. On the other hand, science in…
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2006年2月10日
Tian Song: “Don Quixote’s Lance”

History of Science & Scholarship2006.02.07
Tian Song: “Don Quixote’s Lance”
Tian Song: *Don Quixote’s Lance—Passing Through the Mist of Scientific Discourse*, Shanghai Science and Technology Education Press, December 2002 Preface: “Misunderstanding Science,” included in the first part on page xiv, is a work from the early 1990s. Looking at it now, there are many lines that make me inwardly embarrassed, for example: ………… these are things I would absolutely not dare to write now. One could add a few lines of mine that I often use to satirize others: fearing that others will say one lacks learning, one has no choice but to pretend to have learning, only to prove in the end that one lacks learning.…… ////——That satire is…
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2006年2月7日
[German] Feuerbach: “The Essence of Religion”

Philosophy & Thought2006.02.06
[German] Feuerbach: “The Essence of Religion”
Feuerbach [German]: The Essence of Religion, translated by Wang Taiqing, The Commercial Press, July 1999 2: pp. 1–2 Human trust is the basis of religion; and the object of this sense of dependence—that is, that on which human beings rely, and on which they also feel themselves to rely—is originally nothing other than nature. Nature is religion’s original primordial object; this is fully demonstrated by the history of all religions and all peoples. ////—This section states the central idea of the whole book: that the sense of dependence is the basis of religion, and that nature is religion’s original object. I agree with this. 3: p. 2 To say that…
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2006年2月6日
A Brief Discussion of “Money Worship”

Culture & Public Commentary2006.02.01
A Brief Discussion of “Money Worship”
Many scholars, when mentioning the term “money worship,” often simply treat it as a “label” — especially from the standpoint of humanistic scholars, “money worship” is obviously a bad thing. This is somewhat like “idealism,” “agnosticism,” and so on: for example, when a thought has an “idealistic” tendency, it is tantamount to saying that it has a “bad” tendency, and in the case of an idealist philosopher’s agnostic thought, this sort of criticism is almost as good as saying nothing at all and can simply be ignored. Likewise, criticisms of money worship, relativism, and nihilism must avoid falling into this kind of childishness. In certain groups where rejection of money…
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2006年2月1日
Selected Diary Entries of Kierkegaard

Life & Notes2006.01.23
Selected Diary Entries of Kierkegaard
[Denmark] Søren Kierkegaard: Selected Kierkegaard Diaries, selected and edited by [Denmark] Peter P. Rohde, translated by Yan Kejia and Yao Beiqin, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press, 1996 Kierkegaard is one of the philosophers of irrationalist currents whom I admire rather more. What I admire in him chiefly are his “three stages of life” and his view of religion (it seems that a thinker’s attitude toward religion is what most determines how much I like him; only after that comes his attitude toward science). Of course, admiring a thinker’s ideas does not in the least mean agreeing with them. I take a reserved attitude overall toward the excerpts below that…
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2006年1月23日