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Outline for Discussion on “Religious Knowledge”

Philosophy & Thought2007.06.12
Outline for Discussion on “Religious Knowledge”
Xu Lao-shi is really something… It’s already the last class, and we still have to discuss things, and still have to write a discussion outline… Fortunately the paper can be turned in at the end of the month. Let me write it in a hurry then—I seem to have written a discussion outline for the first time in the form of an outline rather than a paper. But this time it seems to have gone to the other extreme, scattered all over the place… does it have a bit of Vico’s spirit?~ “Religious Knowledge” Discussion Outline According to Kant, intuition and concept are the two elements of knowledge. However, the…
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2007年6月12日
A Brief Discussion of the Question of Euthanasia

History of Science & Scholarship2007.06.08
A Brief Discussion of the Question of Euthanasia
One piece counts as two pieces… though that is not right, I really can’t make it in time… A Brief Talk on the Issue of Euthanasia The Basic Definition of Euthanasia Euthanasia refers to “the act or practice of, out of mercy, killing patients or injured persons who have no hope of recovery by a relatively painless method, or allowing them to die.”[①] The above is only a dictionary definition, and in academic discussion there are naturally many imprecisions in it. However, I do not intend to offer a new definition. In what follows, I will mainly discuss euthanasia in relation to issues of life and death. “Euthanasia can be…
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2007年6月8日
[Repost] The Top 20 Philosophy Departments in Chinese Universities in 2007

Life & Notes2007.06.03
[Repost] The Top 20 Philosophy Departments in Chinese Universities in 2007
http://edu.qq.com/a/20070330/000076.htm http://edu.qq.com/gaokao/ztq/slzl.shtml In the undergraduate major catalog, philosophy consists of only one disciplinary category, with 3 undergraduate majors. According to statistical data published by the State Council Academic Degrees Office, philosophy bachelor’s degrees granted by universities in our country account for 0.19% of the total number of bachelor’s degrees, philosophy master’s degrees account for 1.36% of the total number of master’s degrees, and philosophy doctorates account for 1.73% of the total number of doctorates. According to statistics on doctoral supervisors released by the Higher Education Students Affairs Department of the Ministry of Education, among the 37,078 doctoral supervisors in universities nationwide, 539 are philosophy doctoral supervisors, accounting for 1.45% of…
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2007年6月3日
“Chess Game” and Rational Pluralism

Philosophy & Thought2007.06.02
“Chess Game” and Rational Pluralism
The paper I wrote on philosophy of technology before was too rushed—I only decided to switch from Heidegger to Feenberg at two in the morning on Tuesday, spent all of Tuesday and Wednesday reading, and didn’t finish the paper until 6 a.m. on Thursday morning… In fact, many places could still have been developed further. On the question of plural rationality, the example Feenberg gives is a very good one— In the paper I wrote: Here, Feenberg agrees with historicism and social constructivism in holding that not only the content of rational beliefs, but also the principles and forms of reason itself, are historical and culturally plural. In order to…
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2007年6月2日
[Repost] About Philosophy in Secondary School and Philosophy Departments

Philosophy & Thought2007.05.31
[Repost] About Philosophy in Secondary School and Philosophy Departments
http://www.gotopku.cn/forum/viewthread.php?tid=38381&fpage=1 The previous post doesn’t seem to have been moved over to the blog, has it? Today I ran into yet another classmate who became interested in the philosophy department after reading a Marxist philosophy textbook from the 1980s, so I suppose this needs to be clarified…… But in fact, perhaps the connection is not all that important. As long as one likes thinking, in the end, by a roundabout stroke of luck, one will probably still end up liking the philosophy department. Author: Title: Recommended: "Popular Philosophy" Previous topic | Next topic su Jinshi Points 4017 Posts 2255 Registered 2005-10-16 From Guangzhou Status Offline #1 Recommended "Popular Philosophy" Posted from: Future…
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2007年5月31日
I Don’t Like Meditation; I Like Spacing Out

Life & Notes2007.05.24
I Don’t Like Meditation; I Like Spacing Out
Sitting cross-legged, eyes closed, gathering the spirit, meditating hard or thinking of nothing at all.—That doesn’t really suit me; I can’t sit still for very long. I like daydreaming. What is called daydreaming, unlike sitting in meditation, often involves staring fixedly at something. Staring at things that are at once moving and still. For example, staring at stars (stars are not motionless—they blink!), rain, water in a lake, grass, and trees. In Beijing there are very few stars and rain, so I like to stare at the wind and daydream. The wind is invisible, but the grass and trees that move with it can be seen. Stand under a big…
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2007年5月24日
Lloyd: A Review of Early Greek Science

History of Science & Scholarship2007.05.20
Lloyd: A Review of Early Greek Science
This book review assignment was due today, and the other book I had originally chosen still wasn’t finished reading; it seemed I wouldn’t have time, so I dug out this thinner book I had read before and wrote up a filler submission. If the TA is willing to wait a few more days, I might write another book review and hand that in instead…… G•E•R•Lloyd: Early Greek Science—From Thales to Aristotle, translated by Sun Xiaochun, Shanghai Science and Technology Education Press, December 2004 Ancient Greece is the source and beginning of science. There is no doubt that research on the history of science and technology in ancient Greece is of…
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2007年5月20日
In ordinary times, one should write more blog posts as an outlet

Site Matters2007.05.17
In ordinary times, one should write more blog posts as an outlet
Yesterday in the ontology seminar, we were chatting about writing academic papers. Lao Yang said that a certain junior female student’s homework papers — and, incidentally, mine too — contained a lot of personal, experiential material, and thus might seem very good and highly original to some teachers, while receiving very, very low grades from others (Lao Yang was definitely thinking of my grade in metaphysics class… ). On the other hand, there are some people who know how to write and produce papers that are proper and standard, and no matter which teacher reads them, they can still get a high score. That is indeed so. A good paper…
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2007年5月17日
Later Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mathematics of Intuitionism

History of Science & Scholarship2007.05.15
Later Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mathematics of Intuitionism
Late Wittgenstein and the Mathematical Philosophy of Intuitionism Abstract: This essay takes intuitionism as its guiding thread to explicate Wittgenstein’s late philosophy of mathematics, with the hope that it may contribute to a grasp of his late philosophy; on the other hand, it also cites Wittgenstein’s philosophical claims to provide support for intuitionism. Thus, this essay attempts both to sort out the mathematical philosophy of Wittgenstein’s later period and, at the same time, to offer a brief critical account of intuitionism. The author discusses separately the views of intuitionism and of late Wittgenstein on themes such as constructivism, empiricism, positivism, Platonism, logicism, formalism, conventionalism, the axiomatization movement, and the development…
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2007年5月15日
Traditional Textbook-Style Argumentative Tactics

Culture & Public Commentary2007.05.05
Traditional Textbook-Style Argumentative Tactics
Good question! The trouble with traditional textbooks is not really their views, though I do dislike many of the views in traditional textbooks. After all, they represent a certain popular way of understanding problems, and that in itself is not too bad. But the problem lies in their style of argument and their attitude. In a sense, the strategy of traditional textbooks is quite powerful and ingenious (otherwise how could they have had such a profound influence in the Soviet Union and China?). Similar strategies are actually used quite often in many other places as well. We ourselves may even use them unconsciously quite often. In short, it is to…
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2007年5月5日