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Yang Shoujian: “A Critique of Academic Corruption in China,” 1st edition, Tianjin People’s Publishing House, February 2001, 16 yuan

History of Science & Scholarship2007.04.02
Yang Shoujian: “A Critique of Academic Corruption in China,” 1st edition, Tianjin People’s Publishing House, February 2001, 16 yuan
Yang Shoujian: Critique of Academic Corruption in China, Tianjin People’s Publishing House, 1st edition, February 2001, 16 yuan The academic world is by no means an earthly paradise; rather, it is a truly filthy and sordid place, a gathering spot for swindlers, plagiarists, and robbers. I had in fact already been fairly clear-eyed about this, but when I read many of the cases, I was still shocked. Take, for example, Wang Tongyi’s so-called Language Encyclopedia, which has been praised as a collection of jokes and is enough to make one laugh out loud: (Wang Tongyi styled himself the “Dictionary King”; over 10 years he edited 25 dictionaries totaling 170 million…
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2007年4月2日
Reposted from the Department Version: Should a World-Class University Prioritize Academic Research or Teaching?

History of Science & Scholarship2007.03.27
Reposted from the Department Version: Should a World-Class University Prioritize Academic Research or Teaching?
… March 30 18:00—18:50 Pro: School of Mathematics and Statistics — To build a world-class university, academic research should come first Con: Philosophy — To build a world-class university, education and teaching should come first ______________________________________________________________________________ … … … Sender: EPR (Jingzhong), Group: Philo Title: Re: Schedule for the semifinals (please pin this) (reposted) Station: Peking University Weiming BBS (Tuesday, March 27, 2007 15:21:52), internal message Of course a university should prioritize education; the people in a university are called “professors” and “lecturers,” so if they neither teach nor lecture, what are they for? But then one doesn’t know what the administrators in a university are for; it seems as…
philosophy scholarship education intellectuals
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2007年3月27日
I am the man who will become the Pirate King!

Life & Notes2007.03.24
I am the man who will become the Pirate King!
I Am the Man Who Is Going to Become the Pirate King! The One Piece anime has already reached episode 300. I only started watching it over this winter break, and I watched the more than 200 previous episodes and several theatrical films in one go. Of course, it is a very good anime. The first 200-odd episodes are the most exciting, especially the first few dozen. And like other very long anime series, the further it goes, the more the plot begins to feel drawn out, and the tension of the story lessens and less. This is probably due to the interference of commercialization. But I am still full…
philosophy freedom autobiography pursuit
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2007年3月24日
The Difference Between Ethics and Moral Standards and Legal Norms

Philosophy & Thought2007.03.24
The Difference Between Ethics and Moral Standards and Legal Norms
Ethics provides the basis for, or a justification of, law; law is the ethical minimum, and so on. Whether such claims are reasonable or not, they often tend to blur the essential difference between ethical-moral questions and questions of legal norms. The core of ethics is “the good,” or “virtue”; the core of jurisprudence is “justice,” or “order.” Ethics pursues “the good,” or seeks “virtue”; law proclaims “justice,” or safeguards “order.” “Justice,” at most, is only one aspect or one side of “the good”; and according to some other lines of thought, “justice” and “order” are even more often “evil.” “Norms” are the negation of self-discipline; “punishment” is the exercise…
philosophy virtue rule of law
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2007年3月24日
On Discussions on the Teachers’ Blogs: Zeller, Lovelock, and the Gaia Hypothesis

History of Science & Scholarship2007.03.22
On Discussions on the Teachers’ Blogs: Zeller, Lovelock, and the Gaia Hypothesis
Zell, Lovelock, and the Gaia Hypothesis 2007-02-02 22:33:32 Zell, Lovelock, and the Gaia Hypothesis Liu Huajie Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis once enthused: “The Gaia hypothesis is a scientific view of life on Earth; it expresses a new biological worldview. In philosophical terms, this new worldview is closer to Aristotelian philosophy than to Platonic philosophy. This new idea is based on the facts of the Earth rather than on conceptual abstractions, though it certainly also contains some metaphysical implications. This new biological worldview (of which the Gaia hypothesis is the principal part) accepts the logic of life cycles and of engineering systems, while casting aside the Greek-Western tradition of ultimate…
philosophy science Liu Huajie Gaia
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2007年3月22日
First Assignment for the Special Topic on Ethical Questions of Life and Death: On Train-Hitting-Person Cases and DDE

Philosophy & Thought2007.03.19
First Assignment for the Special Topic on Ethical Questions of Life and Death: On Train-Hitting-Person Cases and DDE
First Assignment for the Bioethics Special Topic: On the Train Running People Over and DDE DDE（Doctrine of Double Effect, the doctrine of double effect）： When some actions inevitably bring about double consequences, namely one intended good result and another foreseeable bad result, the doctrine of double effect holds that such actions are good (that is, necessary under natural law) if and only if all of the following conditions are met at the same time: 1） The action must not be immoral 2） The bad consequence must not be the means to the good consequence 3） The intention of the action must be directed only toward the good consequence, although the accompanying…
philosophy Christianity virtue choice
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2007年3月19日
Going to Tsinghua to Hear Teacher Wu Talk About Philosophy of Technology

Life & Notes2007.03.10
Going to Tsinghua to Hear Teacher Wu Talk About Philosophy of Technology
Last semester, because I had so many classes on Fridays, I never went to listen to the KeKe Forum, and that dragged me along so that I never quite had the nerve to come to Tsinghua to hear the salon either… This semester I’m planning to show up much more often~ The first time I met Teacher Jiang (in the flesh), my situation was rather embarrassed. Relying on the fact that I had been to Tsinghua a few times before, I didn’t even look at a map, and as a result it took me half an hour just to find the library; after arriving at the library, I then somehow…
philosophy everyday life Wu Guosheng philosophy talk
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2007年3月10日
On Feminism

Philosophy & Thought2007.03.08
On Feminism
It has been quite a while since I last really put pen to paper. The two books I finished reading, I was too lazy to jot down even notes on them; it seems my state has again fallen into a slump… Today is March 8, International Women’s Day, so let me write down some thoughts. I have said before that I am a kind of “female feminism of a male chauvinist sort.” If one were to look at some of the concrete views I call feminist, they might still seem, in the eyes of many women, to be utterly male chauvinist; yet I believe that male chauvinism is still this…
philosophy culture The Two Cultures women
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2007年3月8日
What Is the Story Behind Kant’s Hundred Thalers?

Philosophy & Thought2007.03.01
What Is the Story Behind Kant’s Hundred Thalers?
What’s the Story with Kant’s One Hundred Thalers? Xingding posted on 2007-03-01 22:12:32 What’s the Story with Kant’s One Hundred Thalers? At last, the grades for last semester’s courses finally all came out. Political Theory and the general elective were both3.0; both courses in religious studies were3.7; General History of Science, Research on Globalization Issues, and Popper’s Philosophy of History were all4.0. All in all, it was still very satisfying. Who would have thought that the grade for the last course to appear—Metaphysics—was only2.0, instantly canceling out the0.03 points ofGPA I had so painstakingly clawed my way up to. The reason this course’s grade came out so late was that…
philosophy Kant Kuhn analytic philosophy
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2007年3月1日
[U.S.] Jaakko Hintikka: “Wittgenstein”

Philosophy & Thought2007.02.11
[U.S.] Jaakko Hintikka: “Wittgenstein”
[U.S.] Jaakko Hintikka: “Wittgenstein” Xingding posted on 2007-02-11 23:25:47 [U.S.]Jaakko Hintikka: “Wittgenstein,” translated by Fang Xudong, Zhonghua Book Company, May 2002 I read this on the plane and at the airport on my way back to Shanghai. Since the book is very thin, I originally thought I could finish it during the waiting period, but in the end it took much longer than expected to read it (these past few days I had been reading only light stuff, and this one at last has some connection with philosophy). As a result, I nearly missed boarding… Since I still have not begun an in-depth reading of Wittgenstein’s original works, for the…
philosophy book reading notes phenomenology
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2007年2月11日