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[U.S.] Tom Rockmore: “Hegel: Before and After”

Philosophy & Thought2006.01.26
[U.S.] Tom Rockmore: “Hegel: Before and After”
[U.S.] Tom Rockmore: “Hegel: Before and After—An Introduction to the Historical Thought of Hegel,” translated by Ke Xiaogang, Peking University Press, April 2005 This is a very good introduction to Hegel’s thought. As the blurb on the cover says: “The main aim of this book is to provide a very simple—but by no means simplistic—road into Hegel, serving as a guide to the thought of a man who belongs among the most important philosophers of all time.” After reading this book, I have deeply felt the profundity and importance of Hegel’s thought, even though my appreciation of Kant’s philosophy still seems to far exceed my appreciation of Hegel’s. But I…
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2006年1月26日
Deng Xiaomang: Lectures on Hegel’s Dialectic

Philosophy & Thought2006.01.24
Deng Xiaomang: Lectures on Hegel’s Dialectic
Deng Xiaomang: Lectures on Hegel’s Dialectics, Peking University Press, October 2005 The immediate consequence of finishing this book is that the image of Mr. Deng Xiaomang in my mind has taken a big hit! Of course, Mr. Deng’s views and arguments are relatively profound, and the rigor and perseverance he showed in translating the Three Critiques have always made me admire him. However, the problem is that this book is a lecture transcript of his course for undergraduates, and I think the simplistic critical style he displays when teaching undergraduates and beginners is irresponsible. In particular, as for his appraisals of Chinese culture, the simplistic denigration he practices is very…
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2006年1月24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
Zhao Tingyang: “On Possible Life”

Philosophy & Thought2006.01.23
Zhao Tingyang: “On Possible Life”
Zhao Tingyang: “On Possible Life—A Theory Concerning Happiness and Justice,” Renmin University of China Press, July 2004 I originally bought this book because I was drawn to its title—I happened to be thinking about some questions concerning what ethics is, and “On Possible Life” seemed able to express my own view of ethics, which instantly brightened my eyes. But after reading it, I found that although Zhao Tingyang’s book is indeed a monograph on ethics, his understanding of “possible life” is very different from what I had imagined. Zhao Tingyang’s book is still quite interesting. I saw that Ji Xianlin and Li Zehou gave it rather high praise, but after…
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2006年1月23日
Cao Tianyuan (Capo): “Does God Play Dice? — A History of Quantum Physics”

History of Science & Scholarship2006.01.16
Cao Tianyuan (Capo): “Does God Play Dice? — A History of Quantum Physics”
Cao Tianyuan (Capo): “Does God Play Dice?—A History of Quantum Physics,” Liaoning Education Publishing House, January 2006 Taking a hard-seat train home is really quite nice. I slept for six hours, read for six hours, and the whole night passed in a rather fulfilling way. That night I happened to finish this idle read. I have always not read popular science books on the cutting edge when they’re written by Chinese authors, but this one was an exception. What attracted me was the advertising copy on the cover: “A popular science book of super influence, hailed as ‘China’s A Brief History of Time’; strongly recommended by Dong Guangbi, Jiang Xiaoyuan,…
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2006年1月16日
Two Marxist-Philosophy Short-Answer Questions I Didn’t Want to Answer by the Book + A Supplement to Short Answer Question 5 in Marxist Philosophy (Part II)

Philosophy & Thought2006.01.05
Two Marxist-Philosophy Short-Answer Questions I Didn’t Want to Answer by the Book + A Supplement to Short Answer Question 5 in Marxist Philosophy (Part II)
1．What is the dialectical view of negation? Illustrate it with the attitude one should take toward cultural tradition. First let us look at what the dialectical view of negation is not: In The Poverty of Philosophy, Marx satirized Proudhon’s vulgar use of dialectics. Marx said, “Let us see what Monsieur Proudhon has made of Hegel’s dialectic when he applies it to his economic theory… Monsieur Proudhon thinks that the good and the bad sides, the advantages and the disadvantages, together make up the contradiction inherent in every economic category. What needs to be done is to preserve the good side and eliminate the bad side.” —What we see here is…
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2006年1月5日
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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2005年12月25日
Collected Final Exam Essay Questions for the Modern Western Philosophy Course (Combined)

Philosophy & Thought2005.12.15
Collected Final Exam Essay Questions for the Modern Western Philosophy Course (Combined)
A Compilation of Final Exam Reflection Questions for the Course on Modern Western Philosophy: 0. Introduction EPR posted on 2005-12-15 19:35:11 A Compilation of Final Exam Reflection Questions for the Course on Modern Western Philosophy: 0. Introduction Initial intention: Study the major course well! Purpose: Copy the material from the book and then type it into the computer; this is a way of sorting through and consolidating knowledge. At the same time, posting the organized material online can also provide a reference for classmates. Method: This is not an outline, nor is it my own subjective reflections, nor is it an answer written according to the questions. I have simply…
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2005年12月15日
He Qinglian: “We Are Still Looking Up at the Starry Sky”

Culture & Public Commentary2005.12.14
He Qinglian: “We Are Still Looking Up at the Starry Sky”
He Qinglian: “We Are Still Gazing Up at the Starry Sky,” Lijiang Publishing House, January 2001 edition, third printing in February 2001, print run: 20001–40000 I came across this book quite by chance at Boya Hall. Because it was on the economics shelf, and since entering university I have hardly read many books on economics anymore. Yet in my senior year of high school, books in this area were ones I was quite immersed in—eighth grade I read science (the first was A Brief History of Time), tenth grade philosophy (the first was Twentieth-Century Western New Marxism), eleventh grade history (Stavrianos’s A Global History and Huang Rennyu’s The Great Chinese…
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2005年12月14日
Annotations on the Analects…………

Culture & Public Commentary2005.12.13
Annotations on the Analects…………
Today I picked up a strange book at the Inward Bookstore and ended up reading it until I was almost out of breath…… Peking University Department of Philosophy Class of 1970 worker-peasant-soldier students: Annotations to The Analects, Zhonghua Book Company, 1974 Below I randomly excerpt two relatively short “criticisms”: 10·22 A friend dies, with nowhere to turn, and he says: “It is for me to bury him” [Notes] 1 Friend — refers to someone who shared Confucius’s aspirations and path; this person died and nobody took care of him, clearly a decadent aristocrat. [Translation] (Confucius’s) friend died, and no one took responsibility for him; (Confucius) said: “Let me take charge…
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2005年12月13日