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Hilary Putnam: A Philosopher Who Changed His Mind
On March 13, 2016, Hilary Whitehall Putnam (1926-2016), professor of philosophy at Harvard University, died at home at the age of 90. Putnam is well-known in European and American academic circles and was once hailed as “the living fossil of American philosophy.” He has drawn a magnificent philosophical map for us with 24 monographs and more than 300 papers. His academic advantages span mathematics, philosophy, psychology, computer science and other disciplines, and he has made outstanding achievements in philosophical branches such as mathematical philosophy, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. Putnam changed his academic stance many times and had the courage to revise his views, so much so that…
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Hannah Arendt: The Thinker Who Escaped Totalitarianism
Experience is the sole object of our thinking! Nothing else!” This was Hannah Arendt’s declaration at the “Hannah Arendt Works Seminar” in 1972. The event was organized by the Toronto Society for the Study of Social and Political Thought. Arendt was originally invited as a guest, but she insisted on giving a speech at the conference. Hannah Arendt’s oeuvre is largely concerned with thinking. In her “Thought Diary” she asked: “Is there a non-authoritarian way of thinking?” At the outset of “The Human Condition”, she stated her intention: “What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.” When she went to…
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Milan Kundera – The Novelist Who Transcended Politics Through Laughter
Milan Kundera has readers of all levels. He is a writer of both tastes and tastes, and he straddles the Eastern and Western camps at the same time, fusing themes of philosophy, politics and the art of fiction. As a thinker who asks the secret of individual existence in specific social political and historical situations; as an artist who has made unique contributions to the essence and form of the novel; as a best-selling author who is well versed in popular culture, his audience is naturally very wide. His novels always describe the fate of characters in political movements, their public social and political life and private sexual life. His…
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The next “Original God”? Can Mihayou’s new work continue to create gods?
MiHoYo’s blockbuster new work performed well Two and a half years after “Yuanshin” became popular all over the world, MiHoYo has released a blockbuster new work – “Honkai: Interstellar Railway” (hereinafter referred to as “Star Iron”)! Before the launch, the number of reservations for “Star Iron” on all platforms in China reached 20 million, and the global number exceeded 30 million. It has exceeded the original “Original God” by about 20 million. On the day when the pre-download was opened on April 23, it successively topped the App Store free list in more than 110 countries and regions. On the day of its launch on the 26th, “Star Iron” undoubtedly…
