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一只云 Cloud

Thinking is how I fight.A student curious about people, ideas, and the world.

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15 articles

  1. Taboo

    Why is incest wrong?

  2. Animal Rights or Animal Interests? Should We Treat Non-Human Animals Well Because They Have Rights, Interests, Neither, or Both?

    Has the animal rights movement extended the moral community beyond its reasonable boundaries? Can a framework based on interests rather than rights still define our relationship with animals and secure their humane treatment and legal protection?

  3. The Tyranny of Language: Discourse, Power, and the Subject

    Uncovering a history of language that places women beneath men. Language is not a neutral vehicle for thought: it is a practice that constructs reality and produces knowledge. What can be said, and how, is governed by the rules of discourse.

  4. [3] El Aleph

    Please don’t be so pessimistic.

  5. [2] Uncertainty

    Time is the substance I am made of. It is the river that sweeps me away, but I am the river; the tiger that tears me apart, but I am the tiger; the fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges.

  6. If Life Really Is a Dream [1]: Metempsychosis

    “As life begins, death begins; as death begins, life begins.” Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly. On waking, he could no longer tell whether he was Zhuangzi who had dreamed of being a butterfly, or a butterfly now dreaming of being Zhuangzi…

  7. Shivering

    “Stop spending the whole bloom of your youth pondering decay.”

  8. I Shall Die?!

    On mood and earnestness.

  9. Unveiled

    Unveiled…

  10. Hello, August

    August :-D

  11. Is Suicide Murder?

    A friend asked me this in a speaking class about two months ago. I turned around, thought for a moment, and half jokingly asked, “What do you think?”

  12. TONY-PHONY

    “How are you?” “Not bad.”

  13. A First Exploration of “Superfoods”

    Also known as: several ways to color food; the day the kitchen volunteered for science.

  14. Seeing Glass, Hearing Life | Preventing Bird Collisions

    Seeing glass, hearing life: why bird collisions deserve our attention.

  15. How Mind and Body Affect Each Other

    Exploring the mechanisms that connect psychological and physiological states.