A Friend Asked: Essays on Self-as-an-End, Volume I / 有朋友问:SAE随笔集·卷一

A Friend Asked: Essays on Self-as-an-End, Volume I: From Instrumentalization to Self-as-an-End is a collection of applied-philosophy essays that begins with ordinary questions. This volume contains the general preface and sixty-five essays, arranged in the order in which they were originally written and organized into four parts: “Learning to Judge,” “The Expansion of Instrumentalization,” “The Person as an End,” and “The Framework Enters the World.” Beginning with questions about risk, technology, finance, platforms, and popular culture, the essays gradually develop the central concern of Self-as-an-End (SAE): how people can resist treating themselves and others merely as instruments within institutions, technologies, and inherited narratives. Volume I records not the triumphant completion of a theory, but the way a concern grew out of concrete questions and began to submit itself to the test of reality. This is a bilingual Zenodo record. The same DOI contains corresponding Chinese- and English-language PDFs. Essay numbers and hidden stable source IDs match across the two editions. The Chinese and English Markdown manuscripts may also be uploaded as source files or retained privately by the author. 《有朋友问:SAE随笔集·卷一:从工具化到自我目的》是一部以日常问题为入口的应用哲学随笔集。本卷收录全书总序与六十五篇正文,正文依照最初写作时间排列,分为“学会判断”“工具化的扩张”“人作为目的”“框架走向世界”四辑。 文章从风险判断、技术、金融、平台与流行文化出发,逐步形成 Self-as-an-End(SAE)的核心问题:人在制度、技术和叙事中如何避免把自己和他人仅仅当作工具。卷一记录的不是一个理论宣告完成的时刻,而是这一关切如何从具体问题中生长,并开始接受现实的检验。 本记录为中英双语记录,同一 DOI 下收录彼此对应的中文版 PDF 与英文版 PDF。两种语言的篇目编号与隐藏稳定来源 ID 一一对应。中文与英文 Markdown 原稿可作为源文件一并上传或由作者自行保存。