转自思与文：http://www.chinese-thought.org/ddpl/005269.htm

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    时间：2008年1月18日上午
   
    地点：上海瑞金医院第九病舍
   
    林毓生（美国威斯康辛大学历史系荣誉教授、香港中文大学东亚研究中心访问教授）：李欧梵等要我代他们问候您。
   
    王元化：谢谢他们，谢谢他们。
   
    林毓生：我在香港见到了他们。
   
    王元化：你已经上了有一个礼拜的课了？
   
    林毓生：上了两堂课了，两个礼拜了。到了以后，还没有恢复就去讲了第一堂课。
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 President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates:

I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: 'Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.'

I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I’ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.

I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, I’m just happy that the Crimson has called me 'Harvard’s most successful dropout.' I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class … I did the best of everyone who failed.

    But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of business school. I’m a bad influence. That’s why I was invited to speak at your graduation. If I had

 

 

Thoroughly Modern Mill
A utilitarian who became a liberal--but never understood the limits of reason.

BY ROGER SCRUTON
Friday, May 19, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT

May 20 sees the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Stuart Mill, the greatest exponent of 19th-century liberalism, whose philosophy still dominates jurisprudence in the English-speaking world. Mill was a many-faceted intellectual who wrote on all aspects of philosophy, on law and morals, on political economy, and on poetry and the arts. His home-schooling at the hands of his father, the economist and historian James Mill, was a model of rigor, causing him to read and write Greek aged 6, to master Latin aged 9, and to have acquired a thorough grounding in history and mathematics aged 10, when he began work on a history of Roman government. Mill later developed a taste for poetry, acquired a perfect knowledge of French, and, despite his agnostic upbringing, read deeply in

The Demonization Of Leo Strauss
BY ADAM KIRSCH
May 17, 2006
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/32841

Here are some of the things that a reader of the press might know about Leo Strauss. Strauss, a political philosopher who died in 1973, is 'the high priest of ultra conservatism' (the Guardian). His views on politics are 'disturbingly elitist and antidemocratic,' full of warnings not to 'let the rabble get above themselves' (the New York Times). He believed that 'a strong and wise minority of humans had to rule over the weak majority through deception and fear, rather than persuasion or compromise' (the Guardian again). For such rulers, he taught, lying is not a sin, but a necessity: The leader should 'use the language of morality to mask [his] real interests, which are his own survival in power and his ability to continue to exert dominance over the populace' (the Nation).

To join this elite that is beyond good and ev