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Night Reading Mencius: The Traitor Faction

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2012.03.21
Night Reading Mencius: The Traitor Faction
This article arose from the explanation in the previous post. Of course, apart from taking issue with one particular junior classmate, my more important intention is to emphasize that interpretations of the Confucian classics are plural, and the Mao left can forget about monopolizing the right to interpret the Confucian classics. When I was a freshman, under Yang Zi’s influence, I read some chapters of the Mencius. Though I have little recollection of them now, I did come away with a rough impression: even though the Mencius is not as invigorating to read as the Analects, it still felt pretty good. The night before last I dug it out and…
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2012年3月21日
“The Kingly Way” — The Road to the Supreme Good

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2012.01.26
“The Kingly Way” — The Road to the Supreme Good
You can read this article as a continuation of this earlier one: Freedom vs. Equality—I Am a Right-Wing Socialist In that essay I expressed a certain resistance to “equality”: equality in the sense of a condition for freedom, or equality as the rules that must be observed for the game of competition to unfold—those senses of equality I certainly support. But equality for equality’s sake, taking equality as a principle, is not something I agree with. So if one does not champion equality, must one necessarily tolerate “inequality”? Not necessarily. One reason for opposing “equality” is that it is an overly abstract concept; in fact, equality always requires a standard…
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2012年1月26日
Love of Wisdom and Patriotism

Life & Notes2011.12.17
Love of Wisdom and Patriotism
Yesterday the two Wu teachers had a gathering, and Old Wu [Bei Wu laoshi] got quite drunk and launched into a grand speech. Unlike when he is drunk in other settings, he said many things that he would only say in front of his disciples. Teacher Wu mentioned that, during his lifetime, he would certainly PUSH us; gold always shines in the end, but don’t count on Teacher Wu living too long—we have to make a name for ourselves within fifteen years… (Although Teacher Wu said drunkenness means speaking logically, in fact there were still some problems at the level of logic.) In the end, Teacher Wu came to the…
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2011年12月17日
Reflections on Revisiting an Old Piece

Life & Notes2007.12.07
Reflections on Revisiting an Old Piece
Looking back, I can’t help feeling something about those old pieces. Nearly three years ago now (time really does fly), in the discussions on my blog and in the dorm about “the state” (see https://yilinhut.net/2006/01/05/215.html and the several posts before and after it), in retrospect that round of discussion may have seemed like nothing much, but in fact, for my blog and for the development of my thinking, it was a landmark period with far-reaching influence. At that time I was in the process of deciding to take the academic path (there was no fixed day; this “decision” took place over roughly the six months before and after that point),…
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2007年12月7日
On the Peng Yu Case

Culture & Public Commentary2007.09.11
On the Peng Yu Case
About the Peng Yu case has recently become quite popular online; you can find it anywhere if you search casually, so I won’t quote much here: “On September 5, the Gulou District Court in Nanjing delivered its ruling in the Peng Yu case, deciding that Peng Yu should compensate the plaintiff for 40% of her losses, amounting to 45,876 yuan. The judgment said, ‘From common sense, it is more likely that Peng Yu collided with the old woman. If Peng Yu had not knocked down the old woman, he would have had no need at all to send her to the hospital.’ Once the verdict was announced, public opinion across…
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2007年9月11日
Two Marxist-Philosophy Short-Answer Questions I Didn’t Want to Answer by the Book + A Supplement to Short Answer Question 5 in Marxist Philosophy (Part II)

Philosophy & Thought2006.01.05
Two Marxist-Philosophy Short-Answer Questions I Didn’t Want to Answer by the Book + A Supplement to Short Answer Question 5 in Marxist Philosophy (Part II)
1．What is the dialectical view of negation? Illustrate it with the attitude one should take toward cultural tradition. First let us look at what the dialectical view of negation is not: In The Poverty of Philosophy, Marx satirized Proudhon’s vulgar use of dialectics. Marx said, “Let us see what Monsieur Proudhon has made of Hegel’s dialectic when he applies it to his economic theory… Monsieur Proudhon thinks that the good and the bad sides, the advantages and the disadvantages, together make up the contradiction inherent in every economic category. What needs to be done is to preserve the good side and eliminate the bad side.” —What we see here is…
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2006年1月5日