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A Supplement to “Poetry Is the Most Originary Rationality”:

Culture & Public Commentary2009.06.12
A Supplement to “Poetry Is the Most Originary Rationality”:
Previously, in the essay “Philosophy and Poetry,” I mentioned this line. I’ve forgotten the exact source of this formulation; it was probably from Heidegger, or perhaps from my own understanding of Heidegger. Of course, no matter what Heidegger said, since I brought up this line, I always have my own set of thoughts about it. Under Unic’s questioning I gave some explanations; since it came to more than a thousand characters, I’m整理ing it here on the blog: Of course, this is a vague way of putting it. The key is to look at what “源始” means. If reason is the use of concepts, then what kind of use is the…
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2009年6月12日
Treating Concepts as Toys and Glasses as Toys

Philosophy & Thought2009.05.17
Treating Concepts as Toys and Glasses as Toys
In the last part of the previous essay, “Philosophy and Poetry,” I had originally wanted to mention “taking concepts as toys rather than regarding them as higher or lower,” but in the finished version I ended up deleting it because the writing never naturally flowed there. It just happened that a later chat touched on the related topic, so I’m putting it here as a supplement. At first I felt that the analogy between eyeglasses and language was not very convincing, but after thinking it over, it seems to be a pretty good analogy, actually rather interesting. Like eyeglasses, many concepts, pieces of knowledge, articles of faith, and so on…
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2009年5月17日
Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-04-11

Life & Notes2009.04.11
Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-04-11
The previous few times I was rather lazy; starting today I’ll try to jot down a few fragments after every salon, so friends who didn’t take part may be able to get a rough idea of what we talked about indirectly (of course I won’t record everything), and friends who did take part may be able to consolidate what they gained, or find a few more hints on related topics (things I didn’t mention on the spot will be marked in bold). First of all, friends who have no particular topic they especially want to hear or speak about are welcome to come as they please (if you’re worried the…
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2009年4月11日
Chen Jiaying: The Influence of Translations of Western Thought on Contemporary Chinese Reasoning

Life & Notes2009.03.18
Chen Jiaying: The Influence of Translations of Western Thought on Contemporary Chinese Reasoning
http://hps.phil.pku.edu.cn/bbs/read.php?tid=523&fpage=1&toread=1 I suddenly remembered to post this. At the time I had only put up a link in “some text written on KKBBS during the period of seclusion,” and had not posted it in any more conspicuous way. In fact, that review is fairly important for explaining my philosophical ambitions—that is to say, how I view modern Chinese. I’m too lazy to write something new about that for the moment, so I’ll just put this old piece under the café column. Butian (Third Pole General Education Lecture) Chen Jiaying: The Influence of the Translation of Western Thought on Contemporary Chinese Reasoning Third Pole General Education Lecture (No. 83) “The way…
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2009年3月18日
On Women Philosophers and the Top-Bottom Dichotomy

Philosophy & Thought2009.03.11
On Women Philosophers and the Top-Bottom Dichotomy
Here are some of the things I was forced to say in my comments after “I Won’t Date in a Café”; since I’ve written them down, they’re now black on white, and there’s nothing I can do about it. Given that this is no small topic, I’m setting aside a new post here for the archive. Later, my classmate Chern, who is even more evil than I am, said that mine was a “female philosopher cultivation plan.” That’s an interesting title, but it’s too liable to cause misunderstanding. My conspiracy is extremely complex: it is neither to seduce mm, nor to cultivate female philosophers, nor even to find an mm…
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2009年3月11日
On “吐嘈”

Philosophy & Thought2009.02.22
On “吐嘈”
Recently I’ve had a way of putting it that philosophy is a kind of act of “tucao.” I’m going to boldly adopt this “term” in my own philosophy; it really is strikingly apt. Anyone who often watches Japanese anime will know the word “tucao,” but “outsiders” and beginners probably won’t quite understand what it actually means, so let me explain it roughly. The explanations circulating online seem all to be copied and pasted from a passage by the POPGO subtitle group. That’s really quite lazy. You can look it up on Baidu Baike or the like. I’ll combine some easily found online materials and briefly restate it in my own…
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2009年2月22日
Draft Program for an Old-School Philosophy

Life & Notes2008.12.31
Draft Program for an Old-School Philosophy
If I were recruiting a crew, of course I would need to explain what sort of style and route this ship more or less has. When it comes to a program, it is actually a rather ambiguous thing: it is either too general or too specific. It can be condensed to a single character, “love” or “I”; to two characters, “freedom” or “seeking”; to three, “play games” or “possibility”; to four, “preserve sameness while seeking difference” or “strive for excellence”; to five, “know yourself” or “that old bear of a mother-in-law,” and so on. Any of these could be posted as a slogan at the entrance to Suixuan. Of course,…
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2008年12月31日
The Labyrinth of Concepts

Philosophy & Thought2008.12.08
The Labyrinth of Concepts
Concepts are like a labyrinth, language like a dense forest, and one can get so deeply lost in them as to be unable to extricate oneself. Zen says: the sea of suffering is boundless, but turn back and there is the shore; lay down attachment, and at once you can transcend. This may well be true. But why do I still remain stubbornly deluded? Because the labyrinth is a game. When you are playing a labyrinth game, isn’t your goal to get out of the labyrinth? Then you can obviously get out at any time—just lift yourself to a higher dimension and step outside. Why must you so obediently struggle…
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2008年12月8日
[Collection] A Small Subset of Japanese Loanwords in Modern Chinese

Culture & Public Commentary2008.11.08
[Collection] A Small Subset of Japanese Loanwords in Modern Chinese
I guess I’m just remembering to add some background material for Professor Chen’s lecture~（http://hps.phil.pku.edu.cn/bbs/read.php?tid=523 ） Liu Zheng (Tuyan) et al. (1984) compiled 890 loanwords of Japanese origin; I am citing this from Yang Xipeng, *Research on Chinese Loanwords* (汉语外来词研究), Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2007, pp. 149–154. I have merely selected some of the words that are more related to scholarship or reasoning, for everyone’s enjoyment: — if it weren’t for these concepts introduced from Japan as Western learning moved eastward, could we still reason things out? implication, hegemony, saturation, insurance, guarantee, pessimism, tragedy, background, essence, proportion, necessity, organizational structure, dialectics, specimen, slogan, vote, phenomenon, doctor, museum, visit, inspect, refer to,…
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2008年11月8日
The Philosopher’s “Manifest” and “Hidden”

Philosophy & Thought2008.10.10
The Philosopher’s “Manifest” and “Hidden”
In the comments received not long after the posting of “Pinned Post 2,” one mm mentioned that I was “a manifest type” rather than “an implicit type,” and so on. The specifics can be seen directly in that post, so I won’t repeat them here. Typical feminine-style comments are headache-inducing, because they are hard to deal with. As that mm said, “…more intuitive”: once a comment is made “from intuition,” then it becomes very hard to criticize. Only when a theory is built on “reasons” is it possible to inspect and criticize it, because “reasons” are public, whereas “intuition” is always private; I cannot criticize another person’s “intuition.” In addition,…
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2008年10月10日