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[Eng] John Hick: Philosophy of Religion

Philosophy & Thought2007.02.02
[Eng] John Hick: Philosophy of Religion
[Eng.] John Hick: “Philosophy of Religion” Xingding 发表于 2007-02-02 10:49:07 [Eng.] John Hick: Philosophy of Religion, translated by He Guanghu, proofread by Gao Shining, Sanlian Bookstore, January 1988 This book is probably the first translated work on philosophy of religion published in mainland China. In fact, even up to now, there are still very few fairly good overview or introductory books on philosophy of religion on the market. The original works one can mention include Xie Fuya (1998), Shan Chun (2003), as well as the one in the recently published translation series of classic foreign philosophy textbooks from the Renmin University Press. Compared with them, Hick’s book, as an introductory…
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2007年2月2日
[English] John Hick: “The Rainbow of Faith—A Dialogue with Critics of Religious Pluralism”

Philosophy & Thought2007.01.21
[English] John Hick: “The Rainbow of Faith—A Dialogue with Critics of Religious Pluralism”
[Eng.]John Hick: Rainbow of Faith — A Dialogue with Critics of Religious Pluralism, translated by Wang Zhicheng and Sizhu, Jiangsu People’s Publishing House2000, February2. Pages2~3. The purpose of dialogue between theology and philosophy is not necessarily to reach agreement—though that is what the interlocutors hope for, and sometimes agreement really is reached—but rather, more precisely, to find out where they differ from one another, and to look at the issues from both the affirmative and the negative sides,////—I very much appreciate Hick’s view of dialogue. Page32. Kant held that perception is not a passive recording of perceived objects, but is always an active process of selection, grouping, association, inference, and the conferring…
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2007年1月21日
[Eng.] John Hick: “Reason and Faith — Problems of Religious Pluralism”

Philosophy & Thought2007.01.20
[Eng.] John Hick: “Reason and Faith — Problems of Religious Pluralism”
[Eng]John Hick: Rationality and Faith — Questions in Religious Pluralism, translated by Chen Zhiping and Wang Zhicheng, Sichuan People’s Publishing House2003January pp. 15–16 P14 Religious language expresses our understanding of God in mythic patterns. That these patterns are human in character and culturally conditioned is a fact, and to some people this fact reveals the following possibility: in depicting divine reality, the different mythic systems of the major religious traditions are less in competition with one another than complementary to one another. However, in such theological work there is a genuinely internal problem or tension. Religious life is practiced primarily on the basis of symbols and myths. The eternal Son…
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2007年1月20日
Comments on the Introduction to Religious Studies Course

Life & Notes2007.01.20
Comments on the Introduction to Religious Studies Course
I had long wanted to write something to grumble about this course~~ But given that the religious studies introduction course gave me a score of 85.5, I felt satisfied, and so I had no intention of writing anything. But today, seeing the TA on the BBS soliciting “critical suggestions,” I was suddenly inspired, and so I wrote down the things I had originally meant to write…… First let me state clearly: I have great admiration for Professor Wu, and I have also gained a great deal from this course. The comments I want to make are not aimed at the quality of this course itself, but rather at what kind…
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2007年1月20日
Winter Break Reading Notes, 2007: The Launch Manifesto

Life & Notes2007.01.19
Winter Break Reading Notes, 2007: The Launch Manifesto
Winter Break Reading Notes for 2007 Launch Manifesto I remember that in the middle of last winter break I suddenly threw myself into a spurt of effort, reading dozens of books straight through at an average pace of one book a day. Although none of them could be called especially specialized works, I did indeed feel I gained quite a lot; more importantly, I read with soaring morale and doubled confidence. But the good times did not last long. Not long afterward, for certain reasons, and then because of a whole string of external and internal problems, my morale plunged to rock bottom. It was truly a case of collapsing…
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2007年1月19日
Is Non-Euclidean Geometry Favorable to Apriorism?

Philosophy & Thought2007.01.16
Is Non-Euclidean Geometry Favorable to Apriorism?
Non-Euclidean geometry is generally thought to be a “fatal blow” to Kantian transcendental theory. In an earlier article, I expressed doubt about this overly simplistic idea. But recently, as I happened to mull over the question again, an even bolder thought popped into my head — the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry is actually favorable to transcendental theory! It should be noted that Kant’s transcendental theory is neither empiricism nor rationalism. Kant is not saying that if one first finds a few axioms in human a priori intuition, then one can deduce the true state of the objective world. Kant is answering this question: since human experience of this world is…
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2007年1月16日
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

History of Science & Scholarship2007.01.16
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
I’ve long wanted to write an essay introducing philosophy of science to the younger students, but each time I started it I gave up halfway through. I hope today I can stick with it and finish. I no longer expect to find fellow travelers in philosophy of science at the undergraduate level, but even for those classmates who do not choose philosophy of science as their direction, I still hope to reduce a few of the many misunderstandings that philosophy of science has suffered from a little bit (for the moment, let me take my own understanding as the correct one; of course, my understanding may also be a misunderstanding—make…
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2007年1月16日
How Locke, Kant, and Dostoevsky respectively viewed the relationship between Christianity and modern society (draft)

Philosophy & Thought2007.01.13
How Locke, Kant, and Dostoevsky respectively viewed the relationship between Christianity and modern society (draft)
Locke is a representative figure of empiricism and natural theology; empiricism and natural theology, together with Baconian science (that is, experimental science), make up the basic tendency of modern and contemporary thought—in precise terms, these three are simply three aspects, in philosophy, theology, and science respectively, of the same intellectual current. Reason and freedom are the key words in Locke’s view of religion, and of course they are also the main thread of modern and contemporary thought. Locke placed reason above revelation, holding that wherever reason can provide certain knowledge, faith should not interfere; if faith oversteps its bounds, fanaticism is inevitable. Only in those matters that reason cannot confirm…
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2007年1月13日
How Am I a Marxist?

Life & Notes2007.01.04
How Am I a Marxist?
I’ve recently been wanting to sort out this question again and make my position clear once more — I still call myself a Marxist, and that has never changed since I joined the Party. I have always idealized myself as a maverick, an unruly thinker; as long as I have not resigned from the Party, I will continue to insist on this. Expediency and status can never be reasons for me to remain inside the Party. The only reason I am a Party member is that I genuinely claim to be a Marxist. So, how am I a Marxist? Of course, one major reason is that I am a Party…
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2007年1月4日
The Religious Questions I Care About

Philosophy & Thought2007.01.02
The Religious Questions I Care About
Clearly, my interest in and concern with religion is not limited to Christianity; it also includes other religions, and even the concept of religion itself. Tracing it back to its source, I first began to care about religious questions in high school. Back then I had already been thinking about the “crisis of faith” in contemporary society. At the time, I lamented the absence of faith in contemporary China—Confucian culture had been destroyed, and Marxism was also being neglected. Then I still styled myself a Marxist (strangely enough, to this day I still style myself a believer in Marxism; in a few days, if I get the chance, I’ll come…
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2007年1月2日