Category: Blog
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Can you know moral facts and be ignorant about its normative strength?
While walking around the base, I listen to a podcast ranging from philosophy to East Asian politics. A philosophy podcast I particularly like is Philosophy Bites, and I often check out familiar names or intriguing topics. Gideon Rosen’s 14-year-old talk on moral responsibility caught my attention because it satisfies both conditions. In the podcast, Rosen…
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A Brief Thought on Religiosity, Morality, and Politics
(This post is in reference to “Rawls the redeemer” by Alexandre Lefebvre) In this article, Alexandre Lefebvre from the University of Sydney unearths Rawls’ unpublished writing. In it, Rawls briefly talks about religion, which is rarely associated with his intellectual work. “HRP (as imagined): You never talk about religion in your classes, although sometimes the…
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A Casual Musing on Fate and God
I’ve had this topic in mind for over a year, but I never had time to sit down and organize my thoughts. As my general examination is over and I have no business working with unethical people anymore, I suddenly have all time to meditate on it. — Though I’ve been exposed to various religions…
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On 放心
I feel like literature people might know this, but I wonder if anyone knows when the negative connotation of “放心” became predominant in Chinese. 1. I remember studying Mandarin for the first time many years ago. I was struck by how words related to 心 often share the same underlying meaning, yet with a drastically…
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