Sublime

The technocrats represented a moral principle, however nonideological they wished to appear. That moral principle was the imperative toward efficiency in governance and all other spheres. It was therefore the expertise not of the plumber that was praised but of the manager, the professional, and the intellectual whose expertise was certified by the

With regard to the contemporary utilization of tianxia, it seems rather odd to be applying an ancient system quite so mechanically to an entirely changed world.

In the post-AlphaGo world, Chinese students, researchers, and engineers are among the most voracious readers of www.arxiv.org. They trawl the site for new techniques, soaking up everything the world’s top researchers have to offer.

Tout au long de l’histoire, les chercheurs ont été confrontés à ce dilemme : servir le pouvoir ou la vérité ? Visent-ils à unir en veillant à ce que tout le monde croie au même récit, ou livrent-ils la vérité, quitte à semer le désordre ? Les institutions savantes les plus puissantes – prêtres chrétiens, mandarins confucéens ou idéologues communist

While Zhao acknowledges that the post-Qin ideal of tianxia is transformed, his conception continues to offer a top-down method of political ordering as the essence of the tianxia system. I submit that I have trouble with this model.

a crisis of confidence in the relevance of the humanities.

The incongruity of the source of our problems, which are global – but where cause and effect are not directly visible – and the institutions of justice, which are, by and large, limited to the sovereign nation, requires that the sacred notion of the singular sovereign has to be restructured or give way to be shared with regional and global entities

1. We need a way of defining and pursuing progress that doesn’t reduce that concept to something that only comes from a digital device.


2. We desperately need access to values and wisdom that aren’t corrupted by the relentless financial metrics and imposed flavor-of