SAE · The Second Enlightenment · Paper 5: Calling It Worth It / SAE 二次启蒙论 第五篇: 说成"它值"
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: SAE · The Second Enlightenment · Paper 5. This record holds the Chinese final text (v1.0) and the English edition (v1.0). The English edition is an independent rewrite, not a translation. It sets out propositions W28–W33, numbered continuously across the series. Abstract (English) The first layer of immaturity is having a seriousness of one's own, yet speaking of it only as interest. Someone is asked what his Thursday evening choir does for his work, and answers on the spot, "singing relieves stress, and relieving stress is so I can work better." This is a translation: the original words are "I want to sing," and what is said aloud is a use. Translation can protect one's own share, and can also swap it out; answering "it's worth it" truthfully at the gate of resources is not translation. Where "it's worth it" is the only slot in which words can land, the original words and the translation mostly cannot be told apart from outside; this is how that place is, not how the speaker is. How it is said, what it brings in, and whether, looking back later, that share is still one's own: these three do not follow from one another. When translation goes on long enough, the original words can be lost in transmission between people. 摘要(中文) 不成熟的第一层,是有自己的认真,却只说成利益。一个人被问到周四晚上的合唱团对工作有什么帮助,当场答“唱歌能减压,减压也是为了更好地干活”,这就是一次翻译:原话是“我想唱”,说出口的是一个用处。翻译可以护住自己那一份,也可以把它偷换掉;对着资源的闸门如实答“它值”,不算翻译。在只有“它值”这一格能落话的地方,原话和译文从外面多半分不出;这是那一处的样子,不是说话的人的样子。怎么说、换来了什么、事后回看那一份还是不是自己的,三件互不推出。翻译说久了,原话会在人与人之间失传。 Related identifiers Relation Identifier Resource References 10.5281/zenodo.21611154 On the Colonization of Value (SAE Value Theory, Paper 3) This identifier is the one DOI in the reference lists of the two texts (works of this system). This series The text cites these papers of this series by number (Prequel, Papers 1 to 7), not in the reference lists. Add them as References too if the record should link to them. Relation Identifier Resource References 10.5281/zenodo.24030393 What the Second Enlightenment Is Not (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Prequel) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030395 Is It Worth It? (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 1) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030401 Reading Structure, Not Minds (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 3) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030409 One's Good, Written in Advance (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 4) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030413 No Longer Asking for Proof of Worth First (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 6)
Author: Qin, Han
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225462416