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Am I “One” or “Many”? — A Review of I Encompass All Things

AI & the Future of Technology2019.08.16
Am I “One” or “Many”? — A Review of I Encompass All Things
Published in *China Science Daily* (2019-08-16, Section 7, Book Review) “Who am I?” — this may be the oldest and most enduring great question in the history of human thought. Philosophers have poured their energies into it, and modern science has also advanced human self-understanding from different angles. Some say human beings are rational animals; some say they are political animals; some say they are tool-making animals… But in any case, few people would doubt this point: “I am one person.” The question “Who am I?” is immediately transformed into “What is a human being?”, thereby bypassing any inquiry into the “one.” No matter what I am, I am first…
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2019年8月16日
“Co-being” and the Horse of Seahorse-ism

Philosophy & Thought2010.12.18
“Co-being” and the Horse of Seahorse-ism
The progress of the Being and Time reading group has been fairly smooth so far, and we have now reached the part on being-with and the Anyone. At the time, I stopped where I did in “A Preliminary Exploration of Heidegger’s Ontology of Media,” and I wrote then: “Speaking of the ‘Anyone,’ Heidegger’s related discussions of ‘being-with,’ ‘falling,’ and so on will also be drawn in. Dasein’s being-in-the-world is not only always dealing with things, but is also always dealing with others, and this is precisely where the concepts of ‘dealing with’ and ‘media’ ought to apply. However, as a very preliminary glimpse into Heidegger’s ontology of media, this article…
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2010年12月18日
[Eng] John Cottingham: “Is Life Meaningful?”

Philosophy & Thought2007.07.20
[Eng] John Cottingham: “Is Life Meaningful?”
[英]John Cottingham: “Is Life Meaningful?”, translated by Wang Nan, Guangxi Normal University Press, May 2007, 16 yuan. This is also one of the books in the “Xingsi Essays Series, Pocket Reading” collection; it was the third book I took with me to Shanxi, but I didn’t have time to read it there, so today I casually took care of it. The theme is the meaning of life, and the author’s line of thought and point of view seem close to mine: from science to philosophy to religion. The range he covers is basically also within my own reach; it’s almost as if I wrote the article myself— which also means…
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2007年7月20日
A Supplement on “Preserving Common Ground While Seeking Differences”

Philosophy & Thought2006.11.08
A Supplement on “Preserving Common Ground While Seeking Differences”
Today, in the course on globalization issues, the topic of dialogue among civilizations happened to come up, and I went ahead and advocated my own position of preserving commonality while seeking difference. There were many issues raised in the discussion. I’ll make a few supplementary remarks here. I acknowledge that diversity is a reality. But in what sense is it a reality? On the level of ontology, differences are certainly prior to dialogue; the fact of plural coexistence already existed long before plural dialogue got underway. But that is the ontological level—what about the level of knowledge? From the epistemic point of view, those differences may be known to us,…
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2006年11月8日