“佛教艺术学”引论

在佛教艺术的研究领域中 ,人们多满足于罗列某些艺术门类当中的佛教题材、主题和氛围 ,少有从学科意识的高度探索佛教艺术的概念、特点和精神实质 ,未能构建出“佛教艺术学”这门独立的新兴学科。“佛教艺术学”应该系统地研究佛教艺术的概念和特点 ,其基本框架应该由主题学、范畴学、形态学、风格学和修辞学五大方面构成     

说一切有部的遍行随眠概论

<正>"遍行随眠"是说一切有部内较流行的命题,他们在论述这个术语时又展开为"遍行"及"非遍行"的两类,并以此引发了诸论师的深度思考。遍行随眠,从这个概念的属性上说,"遍行"是根据它的活跃性格赋予它一种特殊职能;"随眠"是对烦恼作譬喻性的描述,即"遍行"对"随眠"的修饰,也就是说在三界的时空内,遍行随眠如何以同类因身份与异地法建立的沟通关系。"随眠"是佛教哲学很朴素的一个     

An Evolutionary Approach to Revising Modernization Theory: An Introduction to the Credible Polity

The future global distribution of the political regimes of countries, just like that of their economic incomes, displays a surprising tendency for polarization into only two clubs of convergence at the extrema. This, in itself, is a persuasive reason to analyze afresh the logical validity of an endogenous theory for political and economic development inherent in modernization theory. I suggest how adopting a simple evolutionary game theoretic view on the subject allows an explanation for these parallel clubs of convergence in political regimes and economic income within the framework of existing research in democratization theory. I also suggest how instrumental action can be methodically introduced into such a setup using learning strategies adopted by political actors. These strategies, based on the first principles of political competition, are motivated by introducing the theoretical concept of a Credible Polity.