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  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull

    Culture & Public Commentary

    Jonathan Livingston Seagull

    [U.S.] Richard Bach: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, translated by Guo Hui, Nanhai Publishing Company, April 2004 I first heard about this book in The Tree of Philosophy. In The Tree of Philosophy, it was not merely “mentioned” that seagull Jonathan existed; rather, nearly an entire class period was spent discussing it—as the introduction to the section on “philosophy of science.” The Tree of Philosophy provides countless excellent reference books as post-class reading, yet the only one assigned as a classroom task and directly discussed in class was this marvelous literary work. Freedom, pursuit, mind, wings, infinity… As for literary works, I am not very fond of writing analysis or criticism, nor…

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  • A Brief Discussion of “Money Worship”

    Culture & Public Commentary

    A Brief Discussion of “Money Worship”

    Many scholars, when mentioning the term “money worship,” often simply treat it as a “label” — especially from the standpoint of humanistic scholars, “money worship” is obviously a bad thing. This is somewhat like “idealism,” “agnosticism,” and so on: for example, when a thought has an “idealistic” tendency, it is tantamount to saying that it has a “bad” tendency, and in the case of an idealist philosopher’s agnostic thought, this sort of criticism is almost as good as saying nothing at all and can simply be ignored. Likewise, criticisms of money worship, relativism, and nihilism must avoid falling into this kind of childishness. In certain groups where rejection of money…

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  • I Am a Realistic Idealist, or an Ideal Realist (A Supplement to the Previous Essay and the Debate It Sparked)

    Life & Notes

    I Am a Realistic Idealist, or an Ideal Realist (A Supplement to the Previous Essay and the Debate It Sparked)

    I just debated with ZW for more than an hour. It’s already started to have a bit of the flavor of “directing the realm from the mountaintop” (just kidding—don’t take it seriously), and although I did get something out of it, I’m exhausted. Because my personal political views are very easy to misunderstand—easy to mistake for “counterrevolutionary” or “fool-the-masses”—but perhaps it’s not a misunderstanding after all. If revolution is understood as a revolution against China as it exists in reality, then I am a resolute “counterrevolutionary.” Of course, someone may say: as social development reaches a certain stage, there is always the possibility that revolution will become necessary; so am…

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  • What Do I “Want” to Do?

    Life & Notes

    What Do I “Want” to Do?

    Heaven knows how I still had the leisure to write an essay during final-exam season. Contemporary politics and economics have already been smashed to pieces, tomorrow’s English is hopeless too, and I can’t even finish reading Chinese philosophy…… Sigh. But today during a group chat CG mentioned that he wanted to “bring social, political, and economic studies into one coherent whole,” of course just as casual chatter, but it made me think of some questions. Someone once shouted the slogan “bringing Chinese, Western, and Marxist thought into one coherent whole,” and very soon someone else coined the matching line, “boasting of smashing through ancient and modern cattle.” To shout about…

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