家乡的屋顶

正故乡的屋顶,承载着我整个童年时期的记忆。上,舒展一下筋骨,抖擞抖擞精神,就像进入了最喜欢一个人独自坐在屋顶境地。"心凝形释,与万化冥合"的境地。小时候,屋顶是我们的乐园。踩着颤悠悠的梯子,爬上去,把屋顶当席子在上面摸爬滚打,过家家做游戏;把屋顶当梯子,站在上面,折槐花,捉知了,摘甜枣……屋顶上总有无穷无尽的趣事等着我们去做。有时,我们在屋顶上开心地戏耍,高     

生命的接榫

装潢房子的时候,我到林口卖古董家具的店买了一些清朝的门窗,请木工把窗花的部分拆下来,镶嵌在新家的门窗上。为我们装潢的木匠已经是台北一流的师傅,任何细作的家具都难不倒他,但是当他看到那些     

认识"外邦人"

初读中文圣经(和合版,下同),每当遇到“外邦人”一词就觉得有一道无形的屏障把我们与神隔离开来,尤其是读到我主耶稣差遣使徒时说“外邦人的路,你们不要走”(太10:5),无限的爱顿时变得一片茫然,心中甚觉忧伤。“外邦人”一词在旧约中反复出现,多么希望在新约中消失。恰恰相反,新约中又出现厂70多次,仅马太福音一篇我主耶稣就亲口说了8次(5:47;6:7,32;10:5,18;18:17;20:19,25)。     

烟雨瓦上起

正房子造得年数久了,屋顶的瓦片就会发白,这便好像一个人上了年纪,头发会慢慢变白一样。不过,人站在屋前或是屋后,因为位置高低的关系,多半是看不出来的,仿佛它在经过精心打扮之后,将这一缕白发盘在了头顶,巧妙地遮掩住了。要看屋顶的瓦片,需到高处去才行。如果附近有高楼,你可以站在楼顶上去看它;如果附近有小山,你亦可以站到山上去看它;或者将一把梯子搭在屋面,爬上去看它。可以说,方法有很多种,原理却只有一个,那就是居高望下,用俯瞰才能看得见。     

自我成长报告

<正>我在家排行老四,上有两个姐姐,一个哥哥。听大人们说,我母亲在冬天刚生下我时,当时我姑姑在我们家见又生了一个女儿,再加上又实行计划生育,就说把我扔掉,我妈差点也同意我姑姑的意见。在她们正准备把我扔了的时候,在外工作的父亲回来了一把抱起我说:"你们不要,我要。"于是,命大福大的我就这样幸存下来并活过了四十个年头。当时我们家在农村,只有爸爸一个人在外工作,是一名监狱警察,一年到头都回不了几次家。     

"气功大师"与老巫婆的悲剧

一、走火入魔的刘大师 这天,我们小镇上的市场大门口围了很多看热闹的人.只听那位须发花白的长者大呼道:"喂,都来看呀,我一掌就能把市场的大门楼子推倒--"说着,他瞪眼跺脚运气发功……     

"一切免费"

他如同我们生命的粮食,满足我们生命的所需,凡亲近他的人一定有切身体会:"到我这里来的,必定不饿;信我的,永远不渴。"(约6:35)     

现代化的“个人原则”与天主教信仰的“连带责任”

一、现代化的“个人原则” “个人原则”或者说个人本位既是人在现代化中的自我理解,也是现代化过程不断深入化的根本动力。现代化的发生及其发展过程所伴随的,是“个人”不断地获得强调,不断地成为价值“尺度”的过程。为了弄清现代生活中这种人的自我理解,弄清“个人原则”在现代社会中的具体意义,我们有必要回到现代化之前的人类社会和生活中,有必要弄清与现代人相对的古代人是怎样理解自己的。我们可以这样说,在现代化之前,人首先和根本不是从自身出发,而是从他所处的“位置”出发来理解自己的存在与意义的;也就是说,人不是从自身所是,而是从自己的“周围现实”来理解人生和人性的。具体而言,在前现代的西方,人首先和在根本上依他在宇宙中的位置来确认自己的“应然”,即价值,这是一种具有哲学一神学向度的人学;而在前现代的中国,人则首先和在根本上通过自己在社会中的位置来把握自身,     

什么叫"亵渎圣灵"

不少弟兄姊妹问我“亵渎圣灵”是怎么一回事?犯这种罪为什么今生来世永不得赦免?有人更具体地问:我的情况算不算亵渎圣灵?有一位弟兄,多次写信给我,说他老是担心自己犯了“亵渎圣灵”的罪,怕自己不得救,所以痛苦得不得了。他甚至说:“如果能解决我的问题,要我倾家荡产也愿意!”可见,这是一个必须明白的问题。 首先要知道,“亵渎圣灵”是专门针对当时那些敌挡耶稣的法利赛人说的,今天我们不可以随     

"柔性支架"——社会工作方法介入医患危机

和谐的医患关系是医疗服务的核心,但是在我国现阶段的医患关系表现得相当复杂,已经成为一个比较严重的社会问题,需要我们进行理论上的反思和实践上的探索.运用个案工作、小组工作和社区工作等社会工作方法与技巧介入医患危机,将成为解决医患关系的"柔性支架",对缓解医患危机将起到非常重要的作用.     

"Psychotherapy" versus "treatment"

Presents a comment on "Psychological treatments" by D. H. Barlow. Barlow proposed that we distinguish between the terms "treatment" and "psychotherapy." The author believes that not only is the distinction unnecessary, but that its implications could have negative consequences for the field of clinical psychology. It is the proposed distinguishing feature that treatments are "specifically tailored to the pathological process that is causing the impairment and distress" that is most problematic. Clinical psychology does not need a distinction that further exacerbates the split between researchers and practitioners.     

"Enmeshment" and "Fusion"

The paper examines two related concepts utilized by two different schools of family therapy. Any family seen to be "enmeshed" is also seen as "fused," and vice versa. The difference in the level of focus, on the "system containing the individuals" (structural) or the "individual in the system" (fusion), determines the difference in therapeutic approach of these two schools.     

“对的”与“好的”

什么是“对的”,和对它的证立,是道德哲学中具有争议性的核心问题,也是效用主义和道义论间的主要差异之所在。统合效用主义对于“好的就是对的”这个陈述有一套完整周延的说法。而道义论对这个问题的证立不够周延或没有足够的说服力。     

"本体论"与"伦理学"--形而上学的两个向度

形而上学有两个密切相关的内在向度,就是本体论向度与伦理学向度.在哲学史上,哲学家们之所以在"追求形而上学"的同时,又总是"反形而上学",并非是人们的形上本性出了问题,而是因为人们总是将形而上学视为单纯的"一维性",总是用一个向度来取代或遮蔽另一个向度.而所谓的"后形而上学思想",也并不是消解了形而上学,而是指形而上学从"本体论向度"转向了"伦理学向度".     

"石狮"、"风水"与"吉祥"

谁都知道,在古老的中国,不管是衙门、宫殿、庙宇的门前,还是豪宅、大户人家的门口,人们都能看到摆着一对石狮。据说,这对石狮子在许多中国人的心目中,它不但是一种气派的象征,而且还是一种被人认为是好的“吉祥物”。如今,旧时的衙门没有了,但遗留下来的宫殿、庙宇的门前,其中有些石狮仍有保存。然而,想像不到的是,这号称“吉祥物”的石狮今天却开始“走”进某些党政机关的大门口,它们(石狮)在那里时时都在保护着这些政府要员“平平安安”、“吉祥如意”。这不仅使我联想起一些极端的报道,有些政府官员为升迁,请算命先生定位,用风水术为政府…     

PREFERRING "HOUSEWIVES" TO "FEMINISTS"

Four studies are described outlining the favorability of attitudes toward women. In Study 1, participants indicated their attitudes toward women and men and their construal of the term "women". The results revealed that women were evaluated more favorably than men, but that male right-wing authoritarians (RWAs) who construed women as referring primarily to feminists were least favorable in their attitudes. In Study 2, participants indicated their attitudes toward both "housewives" and "feminists". The results revealed that feminists were evaluated less favorably than housewives, and that the most negative attitudes toward feminists were expressed by authoritarian men. Study 3 revealed that high-RWA males held more negative symbolic beliefs concerning feminists (i.e., beliefs that feminists failed to promote participants'values) and that these beliefs accounted for variation in attitudes among high RWAs and much of the RWA-attitude relation. Finally, Study 4 revealed that high RWAs perceived greater value dissimilarity between them-selves and feminists. The implications of the findings for future research are discussed.     

"Us" and "Them":

Abstract: In the Aristotelian tradition, politics is a matter of public deliberation over questions of justice and injustice. The Bush administration's response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, has been uniformly hostile to this notion, and it has instead promoted a jingoistic politics of self‐assertion by an America largely identified with the executive branch of its government. This is doubly disturbing, as the executive branch has sought to free itself from international law, multinational commitments, and domestic judicial regulation, even as it has sought to validate itself by demonizing its enemies. This essay draws out the disturbing echoes here of Carl Schmitt's work of the 1920s, in particular of Schmitt's conception of the sovereign as the ungrounded ground of the law and the political as the site of mortal conflict between friend and enemy. The essay argues that Schmitt's position in the twenties, for all of its evident problems, is superior to that of Bush, Wolfowitz, and Ashcroft in at least two senses: Schmitt condemns the idea of waging war for profit and recognizes that such wars will often be disguised as moral crusades waged against the “inhuman”; and he acknowledges that claiming to fight a war for humanity denies one's enemies their humanity, leaving them open to torture and even extermination.     

从"管制"到"平衡"--政府与公众理想关系模式的构建及其制度化

论文从行政民主的角度探讨政府与公众之间的理想关系模式及其制度化构建过程 ,将我国在改革之前的政府与公众模式概括为管制模式。论文指出 ,在制度变迁的过程中 ,这一模式日益受到挑战。而在新的制度环境下 ,我国政府与公众的关系模式应该是平衡模式。这一模式的制度化措施包括培育自主的市民社会 ,赋予公众以独立的活动空间 ;促进行政公开 ,建立一个开放负责的政府 ;推进行政法建设 ,抑制行政恣意     

The "Natural" and the "Formal"

The paper presents an argument against a metaphysical conception of logic according to which logic spells out a specific kind of mathematical structure that is somehow inherently related to our factual reasoning. In contrast, it is argued that it is always an empirical question as to whether a given mathematical structure really does captures a principle of reasoning. (More generally, it is argued that it is not meaningful to replace an empirical investigation of a thing by an investigation of its a priori analyzable structure without paying due attention to the question of whether it really is the structure of the thing in question.) It is proposed to elucidate the situation by distinguishing two essentially different realms with which our reason must deal: the realm of the natural, constituted by the things of our empirical world, and the realm of the formal, constituted by the structures that we use as prisms to view, to make sense of, and to reconstruct the world. It is suggested that this vantage point may throw light on many foundational problems of logic.