White Paper Concerning Philosophy of Education and Environment

This paper begins with a recognition that questions of climate change, environmental degradation, and our relations to the natural world are increasingly significant and requiring of a response not only as philosophers of education but also as citizens of the planet. As such the paper explores five of the key journals in philosophy of education in order to identify the extent, range, and content of current discussions related to the environment. It then organizes and summaries the articles that were located while seeking to identify the extent, possibilities, and limitations of current discussions relating to the environment in the philosophy of education community. The hope is that ultimately this work is an invitation to anyone, regardless of tradition, orientation, and expertise, to contribute to the expansion and deepening of both theory and practice in the face of this most serious of challenges.     

On White Ignorance,White Shame,and Other Pitfalls in Critical Philosophy of Race

This article examines Samantha Vice's essay ‘How Do I Live in This Strange Place?’ (2010), which sparked a storm of controversy in South Africa, as a starting point for interrogating understandings of whiteness and racism that are dominant in critical philosophy of race. I argue that a significant body of philosophical scholarship on whiteness in general and by white scholars in particular obfuscates the structural dimension of racism. The moralisation of racism that often permeates philosophical scholarship reproduces colourblind logics, which provide individualistic explanations for structural problems, thereby sustaining white dominance. In the process, I show that notions of white guilt, white habits, white ignorance, white invisibility, white privilege, and white shame as they are theorised in much critical philosophy of race share a crucial limitation: they minimise white people's active interest in reproducing the racist status quo. Studies, such as Vice's, that frame racism as a moral dilemma while silencing its institutionalisation and the central cause for its existence and longevity – that is, white people's investment in maintaining economic, political, and symbolic power – further naturalise white supremacy.     

John Hick, Philosophy of Religion, and the Clarity of God's Existence

Book reviewed in this article:
David Cheetham, John Hick: A Critical Introduction and Reflection     

Cinema,Philosophy and Education

Studies in Philosophy and Education - This special issue responds to the current discourse on cinema and education from a philosophical point of view. Considering the fact that young people...     

服务学习:社会工作教育的通识化

服务学习的运用能有效克服中国社会工作教育的困境。本文通过探讨服务学习如何在全球化过程中与中国社会工作教育碰撞结合,通过行动研究案例分析服务学习如何作为社会工作教育的方式进入通识教育的课程中,并取得了何种效果,从而指出服务学习作为社会工作教育通识化的途径和挑战。     

终末的哲学与美好生活——论希腊化哲学的终末论

希腊哲学致力于美好生活的追求,希腊化哲学则视终末论为美好生活操练的本体功夫。终末论是希腊化哲学的根本特征,它以此为出发点越过古典希腊哲学,重新探寻伦理与自我关系的哲学语法,克服生活中为死亡所掌握的诸种激情形式,阐释美好生活的自然维度,充分呈现个体伦理生活的自由纯度。     

The End of the Incarnation: John Owen,Trinitarian Agency and Christology

Recent interpreters of John Owen incorrectly argue that Owen's trinitarian theology undermines the doctrine of inseparable operations (Opera Trinitatis ad extra sunt indivisa). On the contrary, this article argues Owen upheld this doctrine like his Reformed Orthodox contemporaries, using the incarnation as a test case. Owen maintained the incarnation was an undivided act of the Trinity, which had its appropriative terminus on the Son alone – a pattern of thought he extended to the Spirit's work on the Son's humanity. Owen's creative use of the tradition is an example for contemporary theologians who would emphasize the Spirit's role in Christology.     

传统本体论哲学的终结和马克思哲学变革的实质

本文从讨论Ontology的译名开始,主张严格区分作为一门哲学分支学科的“存在论”,和作为一种特定哲学理论形态的“本体论”两个概念;通过对传统西方哲学所代表和象征的哲学理念的把握,揭示了其基本特征和历史命运;进而从马克思哲学与传统西方哲学的否定性关系视角,阐明了马克思哲学变革的实质和意义。作者认为,马克思哲学在哲学史上最具深远意义的革命变革,就在于它通过对传统本体论哲学的批判和超越,开创了哲学发展的新方向．奠定了哲学发展新形态的基础。     

马克思主义哲学与旧哲学比较的新视角

本文通过哲学改造客观世界功能这一崭新视角,比较马克思主义哲学与旧哲学的异同,认为马克思主义哲学与旧哲学在改造客观世界功能方面的相同点主要体现在三个方面一是两者都是对时代的反映和概括;二是两者都是通过改变人的思维方式,影响或指导人们改造客观世界的实践活动;三是两者都提出了改造客观世界的理想蓝图.两者的不同点主要体现在五个方面一是两者对改造客观世界的态度的认识上是不同的;二是两者对改造客观世界的出发点认识是不同的;三是两者对改造客观世界的主体的认识是不同的;四是两者对改造客观世界的途径的认识是不同的;五是对改造客观世界的目的的认识是不同的.通过这一比较,进一步揭示马克思主义哲学在哲学史上发生革命性变革的根据和意义.     

White Habits,Anti-Racism,and Philosophy as a Way of Life

This paper examines Pierre Hadot’s philosophy as a way of life in the context of race. I argue that a “way of life” approach to philosophy renders intelligible how antiracist confrontation of racist ideas and institutionalized white complicity is a properly philosophical way of life requiring regulated reflection on habits—particularly, habits of whiteness. I first rehearse some of Hadot’s analysis of the “way of life” orientation in philosophy, in which philosophical wisdom is understood as cultivated by actions which result in the creation of wise habits. I analyze a phenomenological claim about the nature of habit implied by the “way of life” approach, namely, that habits can be both the cause and the effect of action. This point is central to the “way of life” philosophy, I claim, in that it makes possible the intelligent redirection of habits, in which wise habits are more the effect than simply the cause of action. Lastly, I illustrate the “way of life” approach in the context of anti-racism by turning to Linda Martín Alcoff's whiteness antieliminativism, which outlines a morally defensible transformation of the habits of whiteness. I argue that anti-racism provides an intelligible context for modern day forms of what Hadot calls “spiritual exercises” insofar as the “way of life” philosophy is embodied in the practice of whites seeing themselves seeing as white and seeing themselves being seen as white.     

意识哲学的终结与唯物主义的时代——重构20世纪西方哲学的整体图景

20世纪是意识哲学终结的时代,代之而起的是各种或隐或显的唯物主义哲学形态.分析哲学以其科学之思明显地通向各种自然唯物主义;大陆哲学则因为诗意之思而隐含着不同程度的文化唯物主义倾向;透过这些形式,我们真正应该寻求的是对于生命现象的唯物主义伦理之思.     

实践的逻辑与哲学终结论的困境

以实践是一种具体、历史的现实生活为基础,把马克思意义上的哲学终结论解释为以具体、历史的分析取代抽象、超历史的形而上分析这种愈来愈被认可的说法,由于马克思仍然把需要、经济、理性、发展视为一般性、永恒性的东西,而需要重思。实际上,马克思在反旧形而上学之路上前进的距离不能过高估计。对实践的自悖性估计过低是马克思未能继续前进的根源。同时,在马克思主义理论中反对过分的专门化富有意义,但把哲学终结于社会批判理论中的马尔库塞式见解也会造成某种漠视。     

Education,Work and Social Capital: Towards a New Conception of Vocational Education. A response to Richard Barrett

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