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ZHIQI LIU

Silicon Valley,U S A

Zhiqi Liu (Jacky) — Entrepreneur, FRSA fellow, investor,writer.

78｜The Freedom and Finitude of Reason

78｜The Freedom and Finitude of Reason

30.2 | The Freedom and Finitude of Reason: The Zenith and Exhaustion of the Linguistic Mode If the Renaissance marked the inaugural entrance of Reason onto the historical stage as an independent subject, the ensuing centuries constituted the total flowering of its faculties. The Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, the Industrial

77｜The Exodus of Reason

77｜The Exodus of Reason

30.1 | The Exodus of Reason: From Religious Suppression to the Opening of Freedom in the Renaissance To comprehend why Reason must depart from the "House," we must first understand what that House became over the long arc of history. If we look back at religious tradition through

76｜The Homecoming of the Prodigal

76｜The Homecoming of the Prodigal

Chapter XXX | The Homecoming of the Prodigal Introduction | The Symbolic Structure of the Prodigal, the Elder Brother, and the Father In our preceding discourses, we have primarily derived the structure and necessity of Faith from an epistemological vantage point. In this final chapter, we turn toward a more symbolic narrative,

75｜Final Summary: The Linguistic Principles of "After-Language"

75｜Final Summary: The Linguistic Principles of "After-Language"

29.5 | Final Summary: The Linguistic Principles of "After-Language" Throughout this chapter, we have pivoted upon a singular, central inquiry: If the Mode of Presence transcends language, how can language still sustain it? The conclusion we have established is this: Language cannot be abolished, but it can

75｜The Archetypal Vessels of the After-Linguistic

75｜The Archetypal Vessels of the After-Linguistic

29.4 | The Archetypal Vessels of the After-Linguistic: Poetry and Narrative While the forms of linguistic art are manifold, if we adhere strictly to the five criteria proposed in the preceding section—the abdication of ego, immersion, independence from conceptual logic, the blurring of spacetime, and the evocation of

74｜The Paradox of Language and Its Resolution

74｜The Paradox of Language and Its Resolution

29.3 | The Paradox of Language and Its Resolution Before we deliberate upon how language may express the Mode of Presence, we must confront a fundamental problem that cannot be circumvented: How can we employ language, which exists within its own enclosure, to express a state that resides "after

73｜Characteristics of the After-Linguistic Mode

73｜Characteristics of the After-Linguistic Mode

29.2 | Characteristics of the After-Linguistic Mode Before we deliberate upon specific linguistic models, we must adhere to the deductive method established throughout this work: all linguistic structures intended to sustain the "expression of Presence" must be strictly defined according to the axioms of Presence itself. That