On the Systematization of Intellectual Property Law

Author: Li Chen
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: A chicken discovers that the farmer comes to feed it every day and thus predicts that the farmer will continue to feed it in the future. However, one day, the farmer decapitates the chicken. The poor chicken tries to understand the overall nature of the farmer's behavior, a way of thinking known as "systematization." If the chicken merely views the farmer's actions as unrelated fragments, it will never be able to understand the past or predict the future, leaving it at the mercy of fate. Bertrand Russell's story of the chicken is a reflection of human destiny. Humans cannot escape the dream of systematization. Why did the farmer do that? What will the farmer do next? The object of theoretical research is nothing more than these two types of questions. However, there is not only one explanation for the farmer's behavior. If it is interpreted as "tending to a chicken before slaughter," the chicken can escape. Similarly, humans can continuously seek the "best theoretical system." This book tells a story of spiritual escape using the "wisdom of the chicken" (systematization thinking). For the author of this book, the unity of the intellectual property system is like an unsolvable "farmer behavior." After wandering through law, philosophy, aesthetics, and history, Cassirer's philosophy of signs finally helps the author escape the confusion.