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Finding Life’s Truths in Scientific Laws (I)

History of Science & Scholarship2006.03.13
Finding Life’s Truths in Scientific Laws (I)
Gleaning Life Lessons from Scientific Laws Why I Started Writing This I had planned long ago to write a long essay on “science and value,” but when exactly I will finish such an essay is anyone’s guess. In any case, it will take at least until I am in graduate school, because this topic deserves at least a book, and it also requires a great deal of accumulated work. Philosophy is not merely epistemology, and even less merely linguistic analysis; philosophy should at least include three parts: ontology, epistemology, and axiology. So-called “philosophy of science” should of course not be limited to “what is science,” and even less should it…
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Mar 13, 2006
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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Feb 1, 2006
The Allegorical Meaning of the Fruit of Wisdom in Genesis Concerning the Fundamental Nature of Humanity

Culture & Public Commentary2005.12.07
The Allegorical Meaning of the Fruit of Wisdom in Genesis Concerning the Fundamental Nature of Humanity
Adam and Eve, because they secretly ate of the “fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,” had their eyes opened; they knew that they were naked, so they covered themselves with fig leaves. When God discovered that they had come to know shame, He knew that they had eaten the fruit of wisdom and discerned good and evil, and therefore punished them by casting them down into the mortal world to become human beings…… This is the Bible’s account of the origin of humanity. It is very uninteresting to talk about the conflict between the Bible and evolution; let us instead look at the profoundly thought-provoking…
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Dec 7, 2005
On “Speaking of Principles”

Life & Notes2005.09.01
On “Speaking of Principles”
Nicknames got started during military training, things like “XX Man.” Someone—one of my closest friends, no less—actually said that I “are the most principle-abiding person in the philosophy department,” and called me “Principle Man.” I found this extremely uncomfortable, alas. In fact, I don’t think I’m a person who talks about principles. It would be more acceptable to say I’m “the least principle-oriented” person, because what I value is the word “go with the flow.” I not only advocate “making peace with whatever comes” and “adapting to circumstances,” but as for things like “playing along with the situation,” I’m not averse to them either; I even think they are necessary…
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Sep 1, 2005