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Great Lives

一百零八种人生

108 Lives and an Unfinished Kingdom of Ends

一座尚未完成的目的王国

A philosophical narrative told through particular lives: how people become themselves, build worlds, meet the limits of what they have built, and leave room—or fail to leave room—for another.

这是一部由具体人生写成的思想叙事：人怎样成为自己，怎样构成一个世界，怎样遭遇自己所构之物的边界，又怎样为他者留下位置——或者没有留下。

Begin with eight lives从八篇开始→Browse all 108浏览全部 108 篇↓

108Essays篇文章

7Movements个乐章

1Unfinished story个未完成的故事

What this series is

Not a hall of fame. Not 108 final verdicts.

不是名人录，也不是一百零八份盖棺论定。

These essays ask how a person becomes their own within an inherited world, what kind of world they build, and whether that world leaves room for someone who does not fit its definitions.

As the series unfolds, a bridge comes into view. Beyond it lies not Kant’s solitary ideal but a gathering: an unfinished Kingdom of Ends. The final place is left not for another famous name, but for the reader who is still choosing.

这些文章关心的是：一个人怎样从继承来的世界里成为自己，怎样用自己的工作构成一个世界，以及那个世界能否容纳不符合其定义的人。

随着系列推进，一座桥逐渐出现。桥的远处不是康德独自站立的理想，而是一群人的相遇：一座尚未完成的目的王国。最后留下的位置，不属于下一位名人，而属于仍在选择的读者。

Become oneself成为自己Make a world构成世界Meet its limit遭遇边界Make room for another为他者留位The empty seat留下空位

A short way in

Eight lives reveal the whole journey.

先读八篇，看见整段旅程。

You do not need to read 108 essays before the series has something to say. This route moves from self-direction through construction and closure to the other and the reader’s open place.

不必读完一百零八篇，系列才开始说话。这条路线从自己的方向出发，经过构与闭合，走向他者，最后把位置交还给读者。

Laozi

老子

Do not turn the last sentence into a prison.

不把最后一句话变成牢笼。

Socrates

苏格拉底

Live by a law that remains your own.

活在一条仍然属于自己的法里。

Qin Shi Huang

秦始皇

See construction pushed to the dream of closure.

看见构走向彻底闭合的梦想。

Kant

康德

Give the Kingdom of Ends its name.

目的王国第一次被清楚命名。

Comte

孔德

Watch knowledge seal its own cracks.

看知识怎样把自己的裂缝封死。

Hypatia

希帕蒂娅

See what happens when a world leaves no room.

看一个世界不为他者留位时发生什么。

Levinas

列维纳斯

Let the face interrupt the system.

让一张面容打断整个系统。

Stephen King

斯蒂芬·金

Return the 108th seat to the living reader.

把第 108 个位置交还给活着的人。

The complete work

Read the story—or enter through a name.

顺着故事读，也可以从一个名字进入。

01成为自己Becoming a Self9 02构成一个世界Making a World14 03当世界反过来塑造人When the World Pushes Back18 04真理的边界画在哪里Drawing the Lines of Truth19 05生命之后留下的工作Work That Outlives a Life18 06我们怎样知道How We Know18 07他者与空位The Other and the Empty Seat12

01 成为自己Becoming a Self从老子到耶稣：当继承来的答案不再足够，一个人怎样辨认自己的方向，又怎样不把它变成强加给所有人的答案。From Laozi to Jesus: when inherited answers are no longer enough, how does a person find a direction of their own without making it everyone else’s law? 9 lives 篇

001 老子，说完就走 Laozi, He Said It and Left 002 孔子，述而不作 Confucius, Transmitting Without Creating 003 苏格拉底，空地上的人 Socrates, the Man on the Clearing 004 王阳明，此心光明 Wang Yangming, This Mind Is Luminous 005 康德，完成康德 Completing Kant 006 真空中的自我涵育 Self-Cultivation in a Vacuum 007 梦庄子 Dreaming Zhuangzi 008 释迦牟尼，过河拆桥 Shakyamuni, Letting Go of the Raft 009 耶稣，钉在桥上的人 Jesus, Nailed to the Bridge

02 构成一个世界Making a World定理、帝国、科学、音乐与诗歌：人留下的世界往往比自己活得更久，也会暴露建造者未曾看见的裂缝。Theorems, empires, sciences, music, and poetry: what people build often outlives them—and reveals cracks its makers could not see. 14 lives 篇

010 哥德尔，构不可闭合 Gödel, The Limits of Closure 011 爱因斯坦，上帝不掷骰子 Einstein, God Does Not Play Dice 012 杜甫，被凿成诗的人 Du Fu, Carved into Poetry 013 秦始皇，构的极限 Qin Shi Huang, the Limit of Construction 014 华盛顿，不穿龙袍的人 Washington, the Man Who Would Not Wear the Crown 015 亚历山大，四代人的碎片 Alexander, Four Generations of Fragments 016 达尔文，生命自己在凿 Darwin, Life Carves Itself 017 牛顿，一个人构了一个宇宙 Newton, One Man Constructed an Entire Universe 018 巴赫，用音符构了一个宇宙 Bach, a Universe Built in Sound 019 贝多芬，聋了还在写 Beethoven, Deaf and Still Writing 020 司马迁，活着比死难 Sima Qian, Living Is Harder Than Dying 021 李白，从来没有落过地 Li Bai, He Never Touched the Ground 022 鲁米，被凿成歌的人 Rumi, Carved into Song 023 达芬奇，还要打开一扇门 Da Vinci, One More Door to Open

03 当世界反过来塑造人When the World Pushes Back无意识、制度、权力、信仰与语言进入人的内部。有人被它们吞没，有人在缝隙里保住了一个不能被取代的位置。The unconscious, institutions, power, faith, and language enter the person. Some are consumed; others preserve a place that cannot be replaced. 18 lives 篇

024 弗洛伊德，向内凿到暗 Freud, Carving Inward to the Dark 025 拉康，地下室里有镜子 Lacan, There Is a Mirror in the Basement 026 陀思妥耶夫斯基，比弗洛伊德早了三十年 Dostoevsky, Thirty Years Before Freud 027 卡夫卡，早上醒来你已经是虫子了 Kafka, You Wake Up and You Are Already a Bug 028 慧能，本来无一物 Huineng, Originally There Is Nothing 029 黑格尔，把余项吃掉 Hegel, Swallowing the Remainder 030 拿破仑，世界精神骑在马上 Napoleon, the World Spirit on Horseback 031 成吉思汗，马蹄之后 Genghis Khan, After the Hooves 032 玛丽·斯克沃多夫斯卡，不止是一个名字 Maria Skłodowska, More Than a Name 033 米开朗基罗，石头里有人 Michelangelo, There Is a Person Inside the Stone 034 林肯，房子裂开了 Lincoln, Don't Let It Fall 035 伽利略，它还是在转 Galileo, And Yet It Moves 036 维特根斯坦，沉默之后 Wittgenstein, After the Silence 037 奥古斯丁，但不要现在 Augustine, But Not Yet 038 八大山人，白眼朝天 Bada Shanren, Eyes Rolled Toward the Sky 039 苏轼，谁怕 Su Shi, Who's Afraid 040 西田几多郎，无の场所 Nishida Kitarō, The Place of Nothingness 041 日本天皇制，空的王座 The Japanese Emperor System, The Empty Throne

04 真理的边界画在哪里Drawing the Lines of Truth从声音成为文字，到理念、因果、意志、计算与存在：每一次划界都让世界清楚一点，也把某些东西留在界外。From voice becoming text to form, causation, will, computation, and existence: every boundary clarifies the world while leaving something outside. 19 lives 篇

042 荷马，声音进入文字的门槛 Homer, at the Threshold of Voice and Text 043 柏拉图，那天他不在 Plato, He Wasn't There That Day 044 休谟，醒了 Hume, Awake 045 叔本华，底下有东西 Schopenhauer, There Is Something Underneath 046 克尔凯郭尔，深夜三点 Kierkegaard, Three in the Morning 047 图灵，那个苹果 Turing, That Apple 048 契诃夫，到莫斯科去 Chekhov, To Moscow 049 康托尔，比无穷更大 Cantor, Larger Than Infinity 050 哥白尼，那天刚好 Copernicus, That Day, as It Happened 051 萨特，他人即地狱 Sartre, Hell Is Other People 052 波伏瓦，第二性 Beauvoir, The Second Sex 053 蒯因，没有那条线 Quine, There Is No Such Line 054 特斯拉，纯粹的余项 Tesla, Pure Remainder 055 爱迪生，灯亮了 Edison, The Light Came On 056 海森堡，测不准 Heisenberg, Uncertain 057 玻尔，对面也是 Bohr, The Other Side Too 058 托尔斯泰，药方 Tolstoy, The Prescription 059 莎士比亚，不在 Shakespeare, Not There 060 斯宾诺莎，从来就没有墙 Spinoza, There Was Never a Wall

05 生命之后留下的工作Work That Outlives a Life手、光、火、梦、颜色与制度。这里关心的不只是一个人完成了什么，也关心作品离开作者以后怎样继续改变别人。Hands, light, fire, dreams, color, and institutions. What matters is not only what a person made, but what the work keeps doing after its maker is gone. 18 lives 篇

061 亚里士多德，地板 Aristotle, the Floor 062 法拉第，手 Faraday, Hands 063 麦克斯韦，光 Maxwell, Light 064 贞德，火 Joan of Arc, Fire 065 王尔德，那句话 Wilde, That Sentence 066 拉马努金，梦 Ramanujan, Dreams 067 奥本海默，灰 Oppenheimer, Ash 068 夏洛蒂·勃朗特，被爱 Charlotte Brontë, Being Loved 069 艾米莉·勃朗特，风 Emily Brontë, Wind 070 玻尔兹曼，乱 Boltzmann, Disorder 071 梵高，颜色 Van Gogh, Color 072 狄更斯，裂缝 Dickens, The Crack 073 丘吉尔，声音 Churchill, Voice 074 罗斯福，架构 Roosevelt, Architecture 075 薛定谔，猫 Schrödinger, The Cat 076 费曼，鼓 Feynman, The Drum 077 霍金，飞 Hawking, Flight 078 曹雪芹，情 Cao Xueqin, Qing

06 我们怎样知道How We Know从“只有说得出的才算知识”，走到“说不出来的是知识的地基”：认知不是封闭的判决，而是不断重开的循环。From “only the articulable counts as knowledge” to “the inarticulate is knowledge’s ground”: knowing becomes not a closed verdict but a cycle that reopens. 18 lives 篇

079 孔德：把缝隙灌满水泥的人 Comte: The Man Who Grouted the Cracks 080 波普尔：把方向翻过来的人 Popper: The Man Who Reversed the Direction 081 狄拉克：方程比观察先到 Dirac: The Equation Arrived First 082 屈原：美是一种认知 Qu Yuan: Beauty Is a Form of Cognition 083 费希特：认知者站在哪里 Fichte: Where Is the Knower Standing? 084 麦克林托克：她先感觉到了 McClintock: She Felt It First 085 薇依：注意力就是全部 Weil: Attention Is Everything 086 撒切尔：想清楚了就不再想 Thatcher: She Thought It Through, Then Stopped Thinking 087 龙树：连地板都是空的 Nāgārjuna: Even the Floor Is Empty 088 伍尔夫：意识有时间的形状 Woolf: Consciousness Has the Shape of Time 089 汤川秀树：看不见的粒子 Yukawa: The Unseen Particle 090 阿伦特：谁在替你判断 Arendt: Who Is Judging in Your Place? 091 默多克：看见就是道德 Murdoch: Seeing Is Morality 092 伊本·赫勒敦：群体怎么认知自己 Ibn Khaldun: How Does a Group Know Itself? 093 维果茨基：认知被别人拉上去 Vygotsky: Cognition Is Pulled Upward by Others 094 斯特劳森：重新铺地板 Strawson: Re-Laying the Floor 095 梅洛-庞蒂：身体先于概念知道 Merleau-Ponty: The Body Knows Before Concepts Do 096 波兰尼：你来 Polanyi: You Come

07 他者与空位The Other and the Empty Seat十二种为他者留下位置的语言，最终汇入桥上的空位。它不奖给任何名人，只在一个人把自己和别人都当作目的的瞬间出现。Twelve languages for leaving room for another converge on the bridge’s empty seat. It is awarded to no famous name; it appears whenever someone treats self and other as ends. 12 lives 篇

097 希帕蒂娅：一个圆锥被切开 Hypatia: A Cone, Cut 098 阿奎那：稻草 Aquinas: Straw 099 柏格森：绵延 Bergson: Duration 100 列维纳斯：面容 Levinas: The Face 101 布伯：我与你 Buber: I and Thou 102 曹植：不能拥有 Cao Zhi: What Cannot Be Held 103 吉拉尔：欲望从别处来 Girard: Desire Comes from Elsewhere 104 谢林：自我中的他者 Schelling: The Other Within the Self 105 埃克哈特：不能被命名 Eckhart: That Which Cannot Be Named 106 里尔克：美只是恐怖的开始 Rilke: Beauty Is Only the Beginning of Terror 107 诺贝尔：未来的他者 Nobel: The Other in the Future 108 斯蒂芬·金：第 108 个位置 King: The 108th Seat

The unfinished ending

“Around Kant, there is one empty seat.”

“康德周围，有一个空位。”

It asks for no greatness, remembrance, book, or monument—only the recurring work of treating oneself as an end and another person as an end. The seat remains empty because no living person receives it once and for all.

它不要求伟业、名声、著作或纪念碑，只要求一个人在具体时刻把自己当作目的，也把别人当作目的。这个位置始终空着，因为活着的人不会一次性获得它。

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