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  • Winter Break Essay V: Love, or the Search for Certainty

    Winter Break Essay V: Love, or the Search for Certainty
    Philosophy & Thought

    Winter Break Essay V: Love, or the Search for Certainty

    Philosophy, or “love of wisdom,” is fundamentally an activity of love. I have always said that love is like philosophy, and philosophy is like love; related remarks can be found in the blog folder “谈情——说爱.” I also once wrote “Philosophical Style and Attitudes Toward Love,” in which I crudely mapped various philosophical styles across ancient and modern times onto various attitudes toward love. This was not some offhand joke of mine, The resemblance between philosophy and love is by no means merely a literary analogy; rather, it means that these two activities share something in certain fundamental senses. A culture, or a thinker, who has a certain philosophy will also…

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  • Immortality from the Perspective of Historicism

    Culture & Public Commentary

    Immortality from the Perspective of Historicism

    Historicism holds that all standards of truth or morality are “historical,” that is, rooted in their own age and culture, and that there is no eternal truth standing outside history. But does historicism imply that people are fated never to “transcend” history? Not at all. We should note that “transcend” does not mean “detach oneself from.” Rather, it means unfolding new history on the premise of standing within history. I have already said before: “Only by relying on history can we possibly transcend history.” Put another way: only by possessing the past can we face the future. Those who have no “past” also have no “future.” The concept I want…

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  • God and Immortality

    Philosophy & Thought

    God and Immortality

    Do Not Enter by Mistake if You Dislike This God and immortality—understood respectively as “ultimate or unconditional certainty” and “some kind of infinity or eternity”—are deeply rooted, ineradicable desires and demands of the human intellect. The unrestrained questing and questioning of human reason will ultimately and inevitably touch upon God and immortality—that is, it will touch upon the question of religion. Quite contrary to the common understanding, indulging reason will lead to religion; if one wishes to shake off or keep religion at a distance, one must resort to the intervention of the irrational. A moderate amount of irrationality and a moderate amount of rationality are both healthy for an…

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  • My View of Life (and Supplement)

    Life & Notes

    My View of Life (and Supplement)

    “Life is to be lived through clearly, not thought through clearly!” — I forget whom I heard this from, but it feels immensely true. Questions such as the meaning of life and the purpose of life: when our lives reach their end, life itself will give us the answers. To puzzle over them while still young only brings suffering upon ourselves, and yields no answer worth the name. Even if we do arrive at some answer, that answer often dissolves with the passage of time; when we look back in old age, it may no longer be quite the same thing at all. But the question of life’s meaning is…

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  • Kant: On a clear night, gazing up at the starry sky…

    Philosophy & Thought

    Kant: On a clear night, gazing up at the starry sky…

    Kant: An Introduction to the History of the Development of the Universe, translated by Quan Zengjia, proofread by Wang Fushan, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, 2001 Stars are fixed Posted on 2005-12-25 18:55:01 Page 142, concluding remarks …. In fact, if one’s feelings are satisfied by such inquiries and by everything said above, then on a clear night, gazing up at the starry sky, one will experience a kind of delight that only a noble soul can truly feel. In the stillness of all sounds and the repose of the senses, the latent cognitive powers of the immortal spirit will, in a mysterious language, hint to us at certain concepts not…

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