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A fortunate chat with Professor Li Deshun

Life & Notes2006.01.14
A fortunate chat with Professor Li Deshun
Alas, I’m so tired today, I won’t record it…… Latest comments Me 2006-01-14 21:52:45 [reply] Just jot down a few odds and ends: We were told to assemble at nine in the morning. I wasn’t properly awake; ZW had a nosebleed; CG sprained his wrist. It seemed everyone was having a pretty rough time. LY overslept; at first, when we texted and called, he didn’t respond at all, and I even thought something had happened to him, like he had chipped a front tooth or something. In the end, we confirmed it was because he had stayed up all night and only gone to sleep at six. We didn’t bring…
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Jan 14, 2006
My View of Life (and Supplement)

Life & Notes2005.12.29
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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Dec 29, 2005
Under the Same Starry Sky—Kant’s Views on Science and Religion

History of Science & Scholarship2005.12.26
Under the Same Starry Sky—Kant’s Views on Science and Religion
The Same Starry Sky—Kant’s View of Science and Religion: The Origins Xingding posted on 2005-12-26 14:48:15 Origins… 1 I have no choice but to suspend knowledge… 1 So as to make room for faith… 5 The limits of speculative reason… 5 The grounds of faith… 7 One must posit a God… 8 The meaning of the church… 9 On a clear night, gazing up at the starry sky… 10 Main references… 12 Origins Kant occupies a special position in the history of Western philosophy, bridging the past and the future. As the Japanese scholar Abe Yoshinari put it, “Kant is a reservoir: all philosophy before him flows into him, and…
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Dec 26, 2005
Kant: On a clear night, gazing up at the starry sky…

Philosophy & Thought2005.12.25
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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Dec 25, 2005
Kant and Husserl—Scattered Affinities from Reading the History of Philosophy

Life & Notes2005.12.21
Kant and Husserl—Scattered Affinities from Reading the History of Philosophy
The other day, in passing, I mentioned that I felt Kant was more worthy of looking up to than Nietzsche, and that Husserl seemed deeper than Heidegger. — This is a rough impression I have recently formed from reading the history of Western philosophy; I have not read much in the way of further specialized studies or original texts, and what I am talking about is only my first impression. Even with only a few superficial introductions, one can still gain at least a basic understanding of those philosophers’ thought. For example, even before I had read the Analects or the Mencius, I already had a strong liking for Confucius…
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Dec 21, 2005
Kant’s Space-Time and Hawking’s Universe — Kant’s View of Science and Modern Physics

History of Science & Scholarship2005.12.07
Kant’s Space-Time and Hawking’s Universe — Kant’s View of Science and Modern Physics
Abstract Kant is one of the greatest philosophers of all ages. Some have said, “Kant is like a reservoir: all the philosophy of the past flows into him, and all the philosophy that comes afterward flows out from him.”[①] Kant’s philosophy has an influence so far-reaching that it is beyond dispute. However, the significance of his doctrine of space and time and his understanding of the natural sciences has been widely underestimated. What I want to show is this: although science appears to have undergone earth-shaking changes, from Newton’s classical system to modern physics represented by relativity and quantum theory, scientific method has not changed qualitatively, and modern people’s understanding…
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Dec 7, 2005