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Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-06-06 [and Part Two of the Announcement for the Next Round of Salons]

Life & Notes2009.06.06
Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-06-06 [and Part Two of the Announcement for the Next Round of Salons]
Today there weren’t many people who came, but the good thing was that at last a newcomer dropped by again. From our initial contact, judging by things like his motivation for study, academic background, interests, and personality, he belongs to the type I look favorably upon. I hope you’ll continue to take part in my salon or other activities next semester. As for the specific conversation, it mainly included my asking about his situation, and my restating some of my own basic ideas, introducing a bit about philosophy of technology, as well as talking about philosophy department courses and other casual chatter. I won’t go into that further here. As…
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2009年6月6日
Contracts and Spells in Love

Life & Notes2009.05.18
Contracts and Spells in Love
This article is meant to lay out some matters. Since bringing these things up still leaves me with a thousand tangled threads, this essay has no fixed theme; I’ll write as far as I get. As for my own romantic experiences, I already gave some account of them in some earlier articles, but clearly that was not enough, and I also did not devote a special treatment to them in the “Talking Love — Speaking of Love” folder, which makes it seem insufficiently sincere. So here I’ll write a dedicated piece to gather my thoughts. When I was a sophomore, I had a little, short-lived romance, and afterward I lay…
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2009年5月18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
Philosophy and Poetry

Philosophy & Thought2009.05.17
Philosophy and Poetry
I had long wanted to write an article about poetry, but I kept putting pen to paper, and the folder I had created called “Music—Poetry” had never lived up to its name. One reason I kept not writing was that I felt I was, after all, a complete illiterate, utterly ignorant; how could I presume to talk about poetry? Apart from the Tang poems I learned in class as a child, and the poetry collections by Bei Dao, Hai Zi, and the like that I now very occasionally flip through at random, I have virtually no firsthand experience of reading poetry at all. At the same time, as for criticism…
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2009年5月17日
Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-05-09

Life & Notes2009.05.09
Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-05-09
Today’s salon was just as bleak; dr didn’t come either T_T. Only byz and xxj showed up to lend support, in the afternoon and evening respectively. But byz basically didn’t talk about anything; he spent ages reading books, while I was writing the reading notes from the previous post. As for xxj, who just left, we didn’t chat much either, including the relationship between life and reading (I believe reading is itself a part of life and should not be split off into some other activity that is either above or below life), and we also touched on a few questions about games (and childhood), as well as some strange…
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2009年5月9日
Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-05-02

Life & Notes2009.05.02
Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-05-02
Today the throne was actually occupied; apparently it had been booked two days in advance. So I had no choice but to sit in the middle seat by the window next to it instead of in the corner. If a stranger happened to come by looking for me and failed to find me, then there was nothing to be done. This time it was even more miserable than last time: there was practically no one at all. Of course, it is perfectly normal for comrades to be busy and lazy in the latter part of the semester, and this sort of fluctuation in turnout was something I had expected from…
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2009年5月2日
Miscellaneous Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-04-25

Life & Notes2009.04.25
Miscellaneous Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-04-25
Given that not many people came today and I’ve had a pretty heavy load these past two days = =, I won’t write much…… In the afternoon and evening, one person came each time, but the exchanges both seemed to feel pretty good. In the afternoon we discussed political philosophy, and in the evening we talked about aesthetics—both fields where I am extremely weak and am just about to start wading into, so what I said seemed rather superficial, but by and large the direction was still fairly on target, right? I’ll keep honing myself slowly…… Spotted here today: dr/xxj Next time I’ll try to proactively drag in a few…
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2009年4月25日
Notes from the Xindao Salon, 09-04-18

Life & Notes2009.04.19
Notes from the Xindao Salon, 09-04-18
· Today’s salon had some newcomers dropping by, though the meaning of the café had not yet fully revealed itself to them. Welcome, friends, please keep spreading the word~ · The little ones were calling for Senior Brother Bu Tianshi, hmm~~ · In my view, a double major and a minor are not very meaningful. If you want to sit in on classes, it would be better to use the electives allotted by your own department to choose courses. But I won’t say too much about this either. · As for questions like course selection guidance, it is better to ask senior students than to ask your advisor~ · Science…
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2009年4月19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
On the Original Content of My Philosophy

Philosophy & Thought2009.04.07
On the Original Content of My Philosophy
First of all, I myself have never cared about what so-called original content my philosophy may have. What matters is that my philosophy belongs to me; even to say that my philosophy is myself is enough. What I pursue is self-knowledge and self-improvement, and all the works that take textual form and flow outward are merely “traces” of that pursuit, not the pursuit itself. No matter how important those things may be to me, whether treated with indifference like excrement or treasured and worn like a diamond ring, they are not in themselves all that important. It is like pursuing a love affair: in the process, there will be memories,…
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2009年4月7日