浪漫主义和英雄主义混杂的现实主义

有了牛皮，里边外边都好看，牛皮吹多了，全世界人民就都信了，这就是牛皮存在的意义。

坐在上面舒服，不下来是没勇气，但首先是因为惰性。换谁坐上去，还是一样。因为领导，群众，都是惰性。

无论是群众与领导的斗争，还是其他斗争，一个抛弃惰性的人，无论站在那一方，都能引导战争的胜利，也只有抛弃惰性的人，才是英雄。

英雄在抛弃惰性的同时就在精神上完成了一步超越，抛弃了惰性，才能获得勇气。

思想讨论从来不是自由的，思想讨论就是斗争手段，是英雄手里的剑。

人不因被爱而会爱，当他不爱就活不下去的时候，自然就会爱了。

基督教说，我们都是上帝的子女，都是兄弟姐妹，于是，那里的人都或多或少的，自觉不自觉的爱着身边的人，从而一定程度上一定范围里缓解了资本主义的负面作用。然而，还是次要的，宗教救不了中国，也救不了美国。

美国社会危机四伏，它早就由一个冒险家的乐园，转化为享乐者的乐园，貌似强盛，实值暮年，而其稳定发展，最重要的原因还是跨国剥削，技术垄断等扩张手段，以及发展中国家的思维惯性（其实就是不被剥削不崇洋媚外都不知道往哪里走）。

至于现代中国的问题，恐怕需要一次从上到下广泛深入的思想大讨论，或者叫“人民读书会”，寻求更为良性发展的社会形态，是中国步入发达国家之列，引导社会潮流的关键。

Open Sets

Distance -> Open ball -> interior points, boundary points, exterior points -> open sets -> closed sets…… this is a line in real analysis view… while in topological definition open set is the most basic conception, and the interior of set A is defined with open set: the interior of set A is the largest open set contained in A…… maybe from the above summary, it seems can state topology is more abstract than real analysis.

Structure

Heard of that something has a structure, like the mechanical system, so the people look for the so called structure; then often heard of another way that something is a kind of structure, like point sets, so the people look for the properties of the structure; while recently realized that structure is an angle to view something, like the one, two or three dimensional geometry space, we look at it based on the points, lines and the relations between them, which is called geometry structure, while we look at the higher dimensional real space from the view of sets, which is a kind of generalized points or line, it’s called topology structure, and we can do that from other views or to say structures, but they may be not so clear as the former set view.

Rectangles and cubes

Rectangles and cubes are the building blocks of real analysis, whose objective is n dimensional real space, which we are not familiar with. We always study something new from the old which can be treated as the first step, just like we use the two or three dimensional space concepts areas and volumes as the preliminaries forward to higher dimension. Any basic geometry methods should be able to be used here, but may be not so useful or so clear. Then the more general description, measure, is developed.

"Disjoint" and "Almost Disjoint" in Math (Real Analysis)

Two sets are "disjoint" means the distance between them are larger than 0, while when we say two sets are "almost disjoint", it seems to refer rectangles but not the general sets, and it means the interiors of the rectangles are disjoint.

There is no philosophy without pessimism; no development without optimism.

There is no philosophy without pessimism; no development without optimism.

A clear definition doesn’t mean a clear result

The task for now is making it clear who is working for linear theory and who is nonlinear. Upon a clear and concise definition of linearity, it should not be difficult to make a distinction, while sometimes it’s exactly the opposite. Just like the nice people and bad people…

Summary

The followings are a summary for the last month:

1， Summarizing the studying and working situations in OU for last 10 months.

2， Having a look at Air Force Academy and attaining some direct feeling of it.

3， Observing and thinking the influence of pragmatism to the US nowadays.

4， Considering the advantages and disadvantages of system theory from the view of philosophy.

5， Organizing a discussion group and talking about the grad students’ situation in OU.

These five aspects make me understand the society and university in a more depth and breadth, although they are not direct work for control science. In the next part of summer, I want to firstly finish a literature review to build a general picture of the field where I am in; secondly finish the paper last quarter left; revise the class report; at last, make a step forward for the website of our lab.

Comprehensive Philosophy

When we consider the future of philosophy, most of us will be shocked by the largeness of this topic, while attempt to find the answer, we cannot help asking: what is philosophy. However, it seems an even larger topic.

There is no single definition of philosophy can be uncontroversial.

Love and pursuit of wisdom by intellectual means and moral self-discipline.

A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.

The rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics

Any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation;

Philosophy is the discipline concerned with questions of how one should live (ethics); what sorts of things exist and what are their essential natures (metaphysics); what counts as genuine knowledge (epistemology); and what are the correct principles of reasoning (logic).

Therefore, the future of the philosophy must take all the advantages of the philosophy before, which is called comprehensive philosophy.

Theory & Experience

Theory is used to describe experiences partly. Experiences are knowledge from direct feelings, including eyes, ears and so on, while theory includes this kind of logic description for the feelings. Therefore, the theory cannot totally describe the experiences, and the other part of the theory is to be beyond the sense, as the mankind can use only several kind senses to feel.

Nature never makes things for mean or no use. – John Locke

No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience. – John Locke

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. – David Hume

Reason is the slave of the passions. – David Hume

Cannot Learn Philosophy from Philosophy

The development of ontology is depended on the knowledge development of all the other sciences about knowing human being. Therefore, we know the life and other sciences firstly, and then ontology. The knowing of enough “where” is the basis of philosophy, and then the general laws of philosophy are used to analysis the other part of “where”.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Evangelist of the absolute. (1770--1831)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Evangelist of the absolute. (1770--1831)

There soon creeps into the misconception of already knowing before you know. ---- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Hegel’s first published book was about the difference between Fichte’s philosophy and Schelling’s, and his own philosophy can be seen as being to some extent a conflation of these two.

Like Schelling, Hegel saw the reality as an organic unity, and one that was not in a stable condition but in an ongoing process of development.

Also like Schelling, he saw the ultimate goal of this development as being the achievement of the self-recognition and self-understanding.

However, he did not, as Schelling did, identify the whole process with nature.

The most influential works are:

The Phenomenology of Mind (1806)

The Science of Logic (1812)

The Philosophy of History (1818)

The philosophy of Right (1821)

The Worship of the State.

Man owns his entire existence to the state. ---- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

There are two kinds of people: right Hegelian and left Hegelian. Hegel is the founding philosopher of right German nationalism, culminated as Hitler, and the most important of the left Hegelian is Karl Marx. The split of the right and left Hegelian explains a fact which puzzled many people, namely that the same philosopher, Hegel, was the intellectual grandfather of both Nazism and Communism.

We can say the philosophers don’t have to take the responsibility for what they said, because they just said what they feel, what they see and what they analyze. However, for the social engineering guys, every detail of their moving will cause the changing in the real society.

The Talking Before

Most of the talking before with those many friends is not thinking of the philosophy of the real life, but the philosophy of the imaginations in ideal life. If we were thinking the real life philosophy, then the thinking and life is one unit. However, now it’s because that kind of imaginary thinking was separated with life, and the object of that kind of thinking is not the real life, but just look for the happy without facing the reality, and it might be better to drop out this kind of thinking. While it cannot be denied about that thinking that time, since if there was no before, there would be no now or future. Just nowadays, these were really childish, but childhood is really significant for everybody, and cannot imagine what if the person grows up without a childhood. Many people went through idealism to realism and with both of them finally.

Worldview of System

The development of thinking mode is the essence of the mankind development.

The reality is a system, which is an ongoing process of development.

Like Schelling, Hegel saw the reality as an organic unity, and one that was not in a stable condition but in an ongoing process of development.

We now view the reality as a dynamic system, changing with time and space and an ongoing process of development, which latter half is the same with Hegel. Our view is from the whole, and here we understand the conception stable in a different way: some kinds of moving is also called stable. There are two kinds of stability in general: whole stability and local stability. The whole stability is the usual situation of the universe, and the local ones are different according to different system properties.

All the things in the world are including the characters of all the others, which are called the unit of man and heaven, and also unit of thing and heaven, and also the unit of man and thing, and so on. These are the same. Man, as a part of this world, is similar with this world, which can be called “self-similarity”.

The existence of one is meaningful for both the oneself and the whole system. Being achievement of self-realization and self-understanding are all because of the understand of the whole system, just like the man, he is alive for both himself and his nation, and also we can see the human being. Not only any one of the two: individualism is focused on self, and communist or nationalism worships the state, and both of them have the disadvantages from their own properties.

Quotations

Religion is the opium of the people. ---- Karl Marx

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it. ---- Karl Marx

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. ----Albert Einstein

Only daring speculation can lead us further, and not accumulation of facts.---- Albert Einstein

Hell is other people ---- Jean-Paul Sartre

The sense of Reality is vital in logic. ---- Bertrand Russell

The finite has no genuine being. ---- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness

Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.

Somebody is always say something from down up, while actually the society is from up down. However, being satisfied is really a kind of happy life. However, I cannot live in this being satisfied for more than two days, jealous for other friends' this kind of status...

Kennedy Space Center

Kennedy Space Center was named after President Kennedy, who put America on the path to the moon.

1， Mercury: the first America’s human space flight program.
2， Gemini missions paved the way from Mercury to Apollo.
3， Lunar landings of Apollo.
4， Apollo-Soyuz Test Project marked the first joint effort between the US and Russia.
5， Skylab proved the human being can live and work in space for extended durations. (First Space Station)
6， Space transportation system.
7， International space station.

Name: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh had its beginning as a fur-trading post around 17th century. It’s a significant fort for French as the geographical position, in the middle of their territory from Montreal Canada to New Orleans around the middle 18th century. However, the dream of French vanished when the English captured the fort and rebuilt it. The English named it in honor of their Primary Minister, William Pitt, and designed the garrison town of Pitts-borough, or Pittsburgh.

There are two hostile camps about the name of “Pittsburgh” around 100 years ago: those who wanted to spoil the Pittsburgh with the “h”—as it had been from the beginning—and those who wanted to drop the “h” to conform to a more uniform and common spelling.

Anyhow, at last, “h” is here to show the difference between other 12 Pittsburgs in US, such as Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and so on.

Who we live for?

There are a lot of nature majesties in the US, while there are also a lot in other countries. Many people from other countries want to come into the US, while a lot of American want to go to China to see what is Forbidden City or Great Wall. Everybody is looking forward to see what they haven’t seen.

While in the US, maybe the people have done more about how to enjoy life, including hiking, skiing, camping, hotels, adventure and so on. the woman, who is in charge of cleaning the labs in our college, said to me that day, she would spend her summer break to North Carolina, to look at the animals in the mountains.

Enjoy life may be called a world view, while… maybe it’s more common to say, I want to do something for our country, just like in most of our childhood, what the school and news told us, and is called patriotic education.

Who we live for?

When I was in the top floor of the capitol hill, some American children singing the national anthem there, is it a good patriotic education?

We live for the person ourselves, also the country our motherland. If we are not from the view of nation, maybe we have to say we should do something for the whole human being world. Enjoying life for self is one aspect and donating ourselves to the human being is another aspect.

Transportation

Transportation is really significant for a country, which should be a strong system meeting the enhancing quality of people’s life. Transportation system is also dynamic and developing with the time changing, and keeping in stability. The Department of Transportation (US) was established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, while many Presidents from late eighteenth century did a lot for it.

There are several subsections for the department.

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Highway Administration

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Federal Transit Administration

Federal Railroad Administration

Research and Innovative Technology Administration

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

Maritime Administration

Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation

Office of the Secretary of Transportation

Office of Inspector General

Surface Transportation Board

Website

http://www.dot.gov/new/index.htm

Utah Landscape

Utah is located in the heart of American West. The land itself embraces everything from desert to alpine climate zones and is divided into three major landscapes: Basin and Range, the Middle Rocky Mountains and the Colorado Plateau.

Mural about Ice Age

The mural depicts more than fifty animals from the Ice Age including mammoths, mastodon, buffalo, Saber tooth cat, camels other mammals and birds. (Produced by artist Joseph S. Venus)

Dinosaurs,,,,, College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum,,,,Price, Utah

Extensive dinosaur and archaeological exhibits. What is the meaning to do some researches in paleontology and archaeology.........??

Nature’s Grand Masterpiece

Artwork from thousands of years ago...

No artist can be so powerful than NATURE...
In Carbon County, Utah, there is so called breathtaking 
Castle Country with hundreds of mountain lakes...

Nine miles canyon, range Greek, 
San Rafael Swell...
The writing on the wall… much more 
majestic than any manmade architecture…   

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