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The Thinker Fixated on Expectation

History of Science & Scholarship2006.03.24
The Thinker Fixated on Expectation
I do not reject a theory because its conclusion is absurd. What must be despised is its attitude and manner of expression. Some time ago I read a younger schoolmate’s article on Confucius; now I am reading a younger schoolmate’s so-called “paper” on “desire studies.” Some articles are unbearable, but I want everyone to know that at present I explicitly hold a pluralist position. The reason I reject some things is not because their views are “extreme.” It does not matter if the views are extreme; others can refute them, and different views can be set side by side in contest. However, some people are also extreme in attitude, imagining…
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2006年3月24日
Winter Vacation Reading Notes, 2006: Introduction / Conclusion / Contents

Life & Notes2006.02.19
Winter Vacation Reading Notes, 2006: Introduction / Conclusion / Contents
2006 Winter Vacation Reading Notes: Preface/Conclusion/Contents Last year, in order to write a paper on ecological philosophy, I “finished” 117 books within two months. It looked “fierce,” but in fact, aside from a little over a dozen books I read closely, the rest were mostly skimmed by reading the beginning, the end, and selected relevant passages, and that was that; it was not solid work, and the books I read then will need to be read again in the future. This winter vacation, however, I made a major change in style: for the vast majority of books I adopted a “read through” method, meaning that I made sure my eyes…
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2006年2月19日
Jin Kemu: “Candle Flame Ashes—The Melody of Thought”

Culture & Public Commentary2006.02.06
Jin Kemu: “Candle Flame Ashes—The Melody of Thought”
Jin Kemu: “Wind, Candle, Ash — The Melody of Thought,” Sanlian Bookstore, July 2002 Recommended by ZW. This was the last collection the old man personally compiled before his death, so naturally there is nothing to be said about its contents. ZW said I could learn from his style, but how on earth could I manage that?!? To write essays that come so effortlessly, so gracefully and fluently, one needs, beyond vast learning and a mind that remembers widely and knows both ancient and modern, China and the West, decades of hard practice as well. Besides, my own style is only suited to science or philosophy; I can’t do literature…
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2006年2月6日
Fang Zhouzi: “Ulcer—Confronting Academic Corruption in China”

History of Science & Scholarship2006.01.31
Fang Zhouzi: “Ulcer—Confronting Academic Corruption in China”
Fang Zhouzi: “Ulcer—Confronting Chinese Academic Corruption,” Hainan Publishing House, June 2001 Pages 328–329 Q: Could you give a few examples to explain the corruption in Chinese academia? A: The corruption in Chinese academia mainly manifests itself in these several ways: 1. Plagiarism of papers. For example, Professor Yang Jing’an, director of the Artificial Intelligence Application Research Office at Hefei University of Technology, has plagiarized at least five foreign papers over the past few years, and basically copied them word for word from beginning to end, with not a single result of his own. His brazenness is shocking. 1. Plagiarism of papers. For example, Professor Yang Jing’an, director of the Artificial…
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2006年1月31日
Philosophy’s Critical Spirit and the “Critical” Spirit of Folk Philosophy

History of Science & Scholarship2005.12.28
Philosophy’s Critical Spirit and the “Critical” Spirit of Folk Philosophy
Philosophy is the most meticulous about criticism and questioning. Every great thinker possesses a strong sense of skepticism and a critical spirit. Marx said, “doubt everything,” and Kant also carried out a comprehensive critique of traditional metaphysics in three massive volumes; Mr. Lu Xun, meanwhile, thoroughly exposed the inferiority of the Chinese national character… Many people find this immensely satisfying and gratifying; criticism, exposure, nitpicking—these became a kind of fashion, and “cursing and swearing at every turn” became trendy… Someone says: criticism is always a good thing, isn’t critique the most important philosophical spirit of all? Little do they know that this critique is not that critique; the so-called “critique”…
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2005年12月28日
Pearls and Strings

Philosophy & Thought2005.12.10
Pearls and Strings
Since philosophy finds it hard to become a dazzling pearl or a brilliant gemstone, why not be an ordinary string—one that threads together those great pearls and turns them into a harmonious, beautiful pearl necklace? Each pearl is worth a fortune, while a string seems to be worth nothing at all. Once strung into a necklace, what people see are only the pearls, and the string can no longer be seen. And yet a well-coordinated pearl necklace is worth more than selling the pearls off one by one after taking it apart—the extra value, after all, is provided by the string. December 10, 2005
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2005年12月10日
Knowing—Thinking—Saying—Writing—Doing

History of Science & Scholarship2005.12.10
Knowing—Thinking—Saying—Writing—Doing
Reading philosophy to a certain stage will, more or less, bring some progress. At first, reading philosophy may be completely bewildering, leaving one utterly at a loss; then, one can gradually understand some things to a limited extent, and turn everything one has read into knowledge to remember—that is a step up the ladder: “knowing.” This is the most elementary step, but it is the foundation. Without the accumulation of knowledge, any “thought” one has can only be rootless thought. From “knowing” to “thinking of” is a second advance. From my own experience, I believe many people who read philosophy go through such a stage: one becomes able to resonate…
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2005年12月10日
I despise plagiarism in academic papers!

Life & Notes2005.11.22
I despise plagiarism in academic papers!
There are two reasons for writing this blog post. First, someone said that I had put some papers and such on my blog, which was not very good; second, someone suggested borrowing a paper from me to read, in order to help his classmate write a paper. I’m not afraid of plagiarism for the papers I post on my blog—if you want to plagiarize, then go ahead. If this paper is not very well written, then—obviously, my writing level a couple of years from now should still improve, and the paper you plagiarize can only ever reach my past level; if this paper is written extremely well, then I’m even…
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2005年11月22日
Three Stages of Reading Philosophy: “Seeing Mountains as Mountains”

History of Science & Scholarship2005.10.24
Three Stages of Reading Philosophy: “Seeing Mountains as Mountains”
The first stage is reading all sorts of viewpoints and feeling that they all make sense. This is because one has not yet formed an independent view, or one’s stance is still not very firm; as a result, one can simultaneously feel that various different, even opposite, viewpoints are reasonable, while oneself is unable to make up one’s mind. The second stage is that, once one’s own viewpoint and stance have become clear, one feels that the great majority, even all, of the viewpoints one sees are wrong. Because one’s own view is already definite, obviously no one will think that one’s own viewpoint is “wrong,” and all the many…
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2005年10月24日
Impressions of Marxist Philosophy (Midterm Paper for Marxist Philosophy)

Life & Notes2005.07.31
Impressions of Marxist Philosophy (Midterm Paper for Marxist Philosophy)
Like many people, my first encounter with Marxist philosophy was in the political theory textbook in high school. Of course, my impression at the time was not a good one. That kind of “Marxism” dismissed so-called idealist metaphysics and incomplete materialism and the like—every kind of non-Marxist philosophy—as worth nothing at all, and that was precisely what first made me suspicious: I imagined that those idealist philosophers could hardly all have been fools; as thinkers who had made it into history, they must, in any case, have been much smarter than I was, so why would they go to the trouble of producing theories that were worthless and collapsed at…
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2005年7月31日