記憶的腳註﹝日記選﹞：
Footnotes to Memory (selected diaries):
- 2005
一月 Jan: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31
二月 Feb: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
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18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
七月 Jul: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
八月 Aug: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
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九月 Sep: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
十一月 Nov: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
| 一月 January | |
1/1/2005 - 星期六 Saturday |
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| | 閱讀採摭 Reading
| People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centred, LOVE THEM ANYWAY If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives, DO GOOD ANYWAY If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies, SUCCEED ANYWAY The good you do will be forgotten tomorrow, DO GOOD ANYWAY Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable, BE HONEST AND FRANK ANYWAY What you spent years building may be destroyed overnight, BUILD ANYWAY People really need help but may attack you if you help them, HELP PEOPLE ANYWAY Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth GIVE THE WORLD THE BEST YOU'VE GOT ANYWAY - from A Simple Path by Mother Teresa. |
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2/1/2005 - 星期日 Sunday |
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| | 閱讀採摭 Reading
| Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, the very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our life is toward happiness. - the Dalai Lama. |
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12/1/2005 - 星期三 Wednesday |
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| | 生活 Life | 今早和阿嫲阿爸飲茶，有老婦指著阿爸和我問阿嫲曰：「大仔細仔？」…… 方平譯《羅密歐與朱麗葉》、三島由紀夫《愛的饑渴》和《美德的徘徊》、冰心《寄小讀者》、朱光潛《談美》、普穎華編著《古文大家——柳宗元》和《曾國藩兵法》。每本十元！原價每本平均五六十元的，不明來歷…… |
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14/1/2005 - 星期五 Friday |
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| | 哲學 Philosophy | 李天命說：「憑思想方法也可以推斷《五千年中華文化大視野》這套書非常好，因為：第一，並不精通中國文化的人﹝例如我﹞覺得它非常好；第二，精通中國文化的人﹝例如其他推薦者﹞也認為它非常好。」 這話邏輯上沒問題。設 A 為精通中國文化的人，那麼非 A 則是並不精通中國文化的人。如果 A 和非 A 成立，則全人類也覺得它非常好。Because A and not A are the only two sets which belong to the whole set of human. 但現實上，並不精通中國文化的人而覺得它非常好的有幾人？我不是說這套書不好，只是質疑李天命的條件是否在現實社會中成立。他沒有證明每個並不精通中國文化的人也覺得它非常好。 陶傑〈走過場〉一文有言： 「『施 政報告』的總題，叫做『合力發展經濟，共建和諧社會』。這句口號，虛浮在哪？在於放在哪一個時空，加在任何一個政府身上都可以。美國的克林頓民主黨、布殊 共和黨、英國的戴卓爾夫人或貝理雅，德國的希特拉或新加坡的李光耀，只要不是不斷革命的毛澤東和赤柬波布，通通都適用。這就叫空話。」 想起香港足球教練「球在腳則進攻，球不在腳則防守」那所謂的足球哲學。 |
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27/1/2005 - 星期四 Thursday |
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| | 評論 Comment | 田亮被逐不奇，香港各報章的評論才怪。 |
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29/1/2005 - 星期六 Saturday |
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| | 電影 Movie | 前些兒在戲院看了新片《恐懼鬥室》﹝Saw﹞，依舊被查身分證，舊片影碟有杜魯福﹝François Truffaut﹞的《柔膚》﹝La Peau douce﹞、《像我這樣美麗的女子》﹝Une belle fille comme moi﹞、《最後一班地車》﹝Le Dernier métro﹞，還有《無痛失戀》﹝Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind﹞、《中央車站》﹝Central do Brasil﹞、《洗澡》﹝Xizao﹞、《2046》和陳果的片子。 《恐懼鬥室》和陳果的片子較可觀，杜魯福三部片子也不及《四百擊》﹝Les Quatre cents coups﹞，仍期待《祖與占》﹝Jules et Jim﹞。 |
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| 二月 February | |
6/2/2005 - 星期日 Sunday |
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| | 生活 Life | 讀《老子》，窗外傳來「做貓做狗」之聲。 |
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7/2/2005 - 星期一 Monday |
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| | 生活 Life | 年廿九，天氣暖和。 街上行人極多，都是濃妝俗氣的。等人時，想拿梁實秋的小品散文來雅舍一番，唯恐標奇立異，最後還是呆呆的站著。 |
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14/2/2005 - 星期一 Monday |
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| | 足球 Soccer | 一流右翼祖亞昆帶領貝迪斯領先三球，耶斯迪先以三球助功回應，再在右路窄位妙射反超前成四比三，剛來港賀歲的奧利華拉演帽子戲法成四比四。精彩。 | 文學 Literature | 奇怪，不少莎士比亞好的中譯本，明清小說的劣版本亦不少。 |
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15/2/2005 - 星期二 Tuesday |
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| | 生活 Life | 讀《信報》文化版，方察覺我每日必經的元朗公園沒有欄杆，方曉也是全港唯一沒有欄杆的。 |
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16/2/2005 - 星期三 Wednesday |
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| | 電影 Movie |
心理學 Psychology | 《無痛失戀》的清洗某人是不可行的，忽略了潛意識﹝unconscious﹞。又，單以物件製作地圖是不夠的。不信可試試，今天在紙上寫下你跟某熟人所有有關聯的事，他日再看大抵有增補的。 |
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17/2/2005 - 星期四 Thursday |
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| | 評論 Comment | 前些時某某調查說每天喝四杯以上咖啡不好。今天又有調查說每天喝一杯咖啡可抗甚麼甚麼的，八十杯更好云云。凡事適可而止，取其中庸就可了。甚麼專家，我呸！ |
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18/2/2005 - 星期五 Friday |
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| | 文學 Literature | 金文明《石破天驚逗秋雨》說魯迅《而己集．魏晉風度及文章與藥及酒之關係》誤記嵇康為司馬懿所殺，殺嵇康的是司馬昭，《魯迅全集》編者有注記此事。洪 範書店一九九九年三印《魯迅散文選》、三聯書店二零零零年六月香港一版二印《魯迅作品精華》第三卷及商務印書館二零零二年十二月一版一印《歸去來兮辭．絕交書》引魯迅之文作司馬懿而未有注述。 |
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19/2/2005 - 星期六 Saturday |
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| | 生活 Life | 天氣，冷。喝熱麥精，暖。 |
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21/2/2005 - 星期一 Monday |
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| | 生活 Life | 再到澳洲，給自己的西學進補。 |
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| 三月 March | |
2/3/2005 - 星期三 Wednesday |
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| | 科學 Science | "A fail in physics not only shows that you are a nut, but an unsuccessful nut," the physics lecturer Joe Wolfe said. |
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| 七月 July | |
10/7/2005 - 星期日 Sunday |
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| | 哲學 Philosophy | 足球 Soccer | 意大利著名學者作家，較近的有 Umberto Eco，稍遠的有 Niccolò Machiavelli、Italo Calvino、Dante Alighieri……然近十多年她們的足球隊演繹的，似乎是我國老遠時代的墨子。 巴西足球以秀麗腳法聞名，法國足球跟該國一樣充滿藝術性﹝這是足球迷美其名的話﹞，德國足球則以心理質素佳見稱。意大利足球呢？以防守持名！這不其然令人想起墨子提倡的非攻。大國侵凌小國和勞民傷財，是墨子所厭惡的。足球場上，沒有不義之戰，也沒有桀和紂等暴君。意大利足球竟然大談非攻兼愛，實為世人所稱奇！《墨子．兼愛上第十四》：「聖人以治天下為事者也，不可不察亂之所自起，當察亂何自起？起不相愛。」這麼一來，意大利隊員可謂是聖人呢！你們這些球迷呀，人家大慈大愛，你們別說人家不思進取啦！ 《墨子．尚賢上第八》有言：「有能則舉之，無能則下之，舉公義，辟私怨，此若言之謂也。」一九九四年世界盃，羅拔圖．巴治奧帶領意大利出征美國，獲得亞軍。其後返回球會祖雲達斯，巴治奧因傷休戰，迪比亞路後起表現出色。待巴治奧復出，正選位置已被迪比亞路取代，最後被迫離隊他投。一九九八年世界盃，領隊視迪比亞路為主力。巴治奧？輔助迪比亞路吧！世界盃過後，迪比亞路受傷患困擾表現大不如前，意軍二話不說將皇牌十號戰衣轉交托迪。迪比亞路？你喜歡的，大可在溪前月下輕歎「既生俞，何生亮。」有才能，自然被起用。無才或失勢，斷然被棄。是為「賢者舉而上之，不肖者抑而廢之」﹝見《墨子．尚賢中第九》﹞ |
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| 八月 August | |
14/8/2005 - 星期日 Sunday |
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| | 歴史 History
| 哲學 Philosophy | 科學 Science | HPS first short talk (write up): This write up is on Isaac Kramnick's introduction. The first main claim is that the Enlightenment was an international movement, roughly, from 1680s to the 1790s, including the French, English, Scottish, American, German, Italian, Spanish. It began with Glorious Revolution in Britain. Second, it is believed that unassisted human reason was the crucial guide to human conduct, not faith or tradition. Everything must be subject to a critique of reason. Religious faith and superstition was being doubt. Third, science, the hero of enlightenment, embodied reason and ameliorate human life. Rational thinking is encouraged. People live from 'rude' simplicity to 'civilized' complexity. Forth, human's comfort, enjoyment and happiness were the central theme. Maximizing happiness was the major job for politics. Fifth, liberalism is raised. Each individual had his or her rights to life, liberty and property. Government was established to ensure we have those rights. Rational and critical thinking were the aim of Enlightenment. Bacon is a key figure and his idea was widely accepted in the Enlightenment. Scientific method was based on Bacon's idea. New discoveries were found and scientific results were used in everyday life and they enriched human life. I know little about Western culture and took some time to figure out what's going on. Karmnick gave a clear outline of the Enlightenment. I think it's very true that everything must be subject to a critique of reason. Like Peter taught us, even as simple as 1+1=2, we have to challenge it. The success of modern science is partly because of criticism. Aristotle taught us that heavier object falls faster. It was not until Galileo who dare to reject it. And Galileo made the breakthrough in physics. Science was the hero of Enlightenment, criticism is the hero of science. Enlightenment was a kind of shift from superstition to science, from irrational thinking to rational thinking. Freedom was another central message from Enlightenment. Before the Enlightenment, certain people was suffering, the basic human rights we have now was not widely known at that time. |
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18/8/2005 - 星期四 Thursday |
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| | 校園生活 Campus
life | Start the essay 18 hours before the deadline. Good luck to me. |
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| 九月 September | |
3/9/2005 - 星期六 Saturday |
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| | 足球 Soccer | 14715 people went to watch Australia VS Solomon Islands at Aussie Stadium in Sydney. And they called it disappointing. It's raining, man! Mark Viduka and Thompson scored two wonderful goals for the Socceroos. 7:0 was the final result. |
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18/9/2005 - 星期日 Sunday |
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科學 Science | HPS second short talk (write up): Regarding Michael Ruse, 'A Philosopher's Day in Court': what can we gather about Ruse's central beliefs about the nature of science and the nature of 'creation science'? First of all, it was not the aim of this essay to present what is science and what is creation science in detail. Ruse's beliefs about nature of science and the nature of creation science are 'hidden' inside the reading and with no organization. Science, as Ruse states in p.26, is an attempt to understand the physical world through law or unbroken natural regularity. In science, understandings means explanation and prediction. He states in p.21 that science should be 'appeal to and reliance on law: blind, natural regularity.' Using this criteria, evolutionary theory is a genuine scientific theory. He further explains that science is tentative, but scientists would not question their theories everyday, when the theory is reasonably well established, they will only look at it when important new evidence comes up. Even the theory is established beyond all reasonable doubt, it is always possible that new evidence reopen the case (p.23). Creation science, as he states in p.17, means the scientific evidences for creation and inferences from those scientific evidence.. These include the 'sudden creation of the Universe, energy and life from nothing.' Then in p.20, he explains that creation science is not regard as science. Philosophers first raise like what is the nature of scientific theories? What's the logic and structure behind it? And what's the relationship between theory and evidence. By analyzing these questions, creation science failed the tests to be a science. There are no descriptions how the Universe, energy and life are created. And so creation science implies that origin come through sort of supernatural force, its miracle. Hence, creation science is not merely not science, it is a religion (p.26). Moreover, creation science is nontentative, it can not be doubt and not debatable (p.28). He believes that creation science is religion. It should not be ban, and should not be taught in biology either (p.30). I think that this reading fits into the aims and content of the overall course because it explains a bit what science is. The demarcation of science and creation science demonstrates it is sometimes hard to distinguished one from another. And more important, this reading is related to key essay of creationism: P. Kitcher's 'Believing Where We Cannot Prove'. It also opens the conversation of Ruse and Laudan. |
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| 十一月 November | |
17/11/2005 - 星期四 Thursday |
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life | Philosophy exam today. And I was watching Australia VS Uruguay last night. |
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