"三陈九卦"章考释

《易传》以孔子的易学观为指导,吸取《论语》、《孟子》、《左传》、《国语》中的伦理道德观念及其言说方式,提出“三陈九卦”说,对履、谦、复等九卦反复加以论述,将孔子“观其德义”的思想具体化,要求人们提高道德境界,以此作为防止和解除忧患的依据,对儒家人文主义易学观的确立作出了重要贡献。     

从帛书《易传》证知孔子说《易》引用古熟语

从帛书《易传》证知孔子说《易》引用古熟语邓立光谦德与慎言都是中国上古相承的德性,是统治者修身治国平天下的道德要求。从帛书《易传》中可见孔子言谦德有取于周公之言,慎言之教则有取于《金人铭》。今本《谦·彖》的“天道亏盈而益谦,地道变盈而流谦,鬼神害盈而福...     

《易传》与中国美学

<正> 《易传》是中国思想史上一部重要著作。《易传》虽然不是一部美学专著,但它所阐述的“天人合一”思想、“《易》者象也”思想,不仅影响了古代的理论思维,而且也影响了形象思维,从而为中国美学追求“天人合一”的审美境界以及强调形象思维在艺术和审美中的重要意义,提供了哲学的依据。另外,《易传》在对客观世界的变化以及《易》象与客观世界的关系作出解释时,使用了“阴阳”、“刚柔”、“乾坤”、“知几其神”、“通变成文”和“修辞立诚”等范畴和命题。《易传》对这些范畴和命题的深入发挥,同样对中国美学的发展产生了极其深刻的影响。所以,从中国美学史的角度讲,不了解《易传》,就不可能真正把握中国美学的特色。     

孔子与《易传》--论儒家形上学体系的建立

《易传》为道德的存在提供了形上学依据 ,其中的“尽性至命”是对传统的道德功利论的突破。《易传》是《春秋》乃至整个孔学的理论基石     

《易传》与道家哲学思想之比较

《易传》与道家哲学思想之比较丁原明近几年来,陈鼓应先生曾多次撰文将《易传》视为“较近于道家系统的著作”,并力主道家思想为《易传》哲学思想的“主要骨干”。受陈说之启发,笔者对《易传》哲学与以老子为代表的道家哲学作了粗略对照,初步认为《易传》作为解经之作...     

《内业》等四篇的精气思想探微

《管子》书中的《内业》、《心术》上下和《白心》等四篇的作者改造了老庄的哲学体系,①认为“道”就是“精气”,从而明确地提出了以“精气”为化生世界万物的元素和本原的思想,并且较多地探讨了生命和精神的本质问题。一“精气”概念不见于春秋和春秋以前的历史记载和著作,而首见于战国时期的《管子·水地》篇(笔者同意以《水地》篇中所列齐、楚、越、秦、晋,燕、宋之水断定它作于战国前期的观点),又见于《易传》等著作。在《水地》篇和《易传》中,“精气”不是首要的哲学范畴,其意义也不是很明确。在《庄子·在宥》篇中有“愿合六气之精,以育群生”     

由君子“恒德”到“观其德义”——《易传》和《帛书易传》的心性观比较

"心性"范畴的理论内涵,是儒家学术思想的核心。据现传《易传》可知,先秦时期儒家学者在阐释《周易》时,强调仁义之道源于天地之道,肯定人的道德精神的作用;这种思想以"恒德"说为核心,主张通过体认天地恒常之道实现道德精神的社会价值,但是《易传》对天地之道与道德精神的社会价值之间的关系并没有进行系统地论述。长沙马王堆汉墓出土的《马王堆帛书周易经传》为我们补足了这一理论缺环。其内容着重于德义精神,重视人的道德自觉和道德实践;其中的阐述和传世《易传》一起构建起了先秦儒家《易》学的完整理论体系。     

论《系辞传》是稷下道家之作——五论《易传》非儒家典籍

近年来,我在《哲学研究》杂志上连续发表了《<易传·系辞>所受老子思想的影响》、《<易传·系辞>所受庄子思想的影响》、《彖传与老庄》等文章。去年冬天,又完成了《易传与楚学、齐学》一文(国内尚未发表,收于《老庄新论》书中,香港中华书局91年版)。今年暑假,由于要开“稷下道家”课程,又比较仔细地研读了《管子》、《黄帝四经》、《易传》、《尹文子》、《慎子》等作品,特别是作为齐文化代表作的《管子》。我认为它们是与《论语》、《孟子》不同的一类作品。产生于齐楚环境下的道家学说。与邹鲁的孔孟儒学,确实具有不同的区域文化的特色。本文专就《易传·系辞》之为稷下道家的作品这一问题,提出一些较为系统的看法。     

程颐的《易传》

我认为程颐的思想影响了中国封建社会末期思想的形成。他的《易传》是当时中国封建社会末期《易经》的标准本。下面简要说明他的世界观和(《易传》的关系。为什么要研究《易经》呢?程颐认为它是一本纯粹谈“理”的书。《易》在它的卦爻辞中明确地表达了“理”、而其它著作则只是将“理”含蓄隐藏在历史的事例或其它事例中。     

《东坡易传》融会儒释道三教思想的治《易》特色

苏洵、苏轼、苏辙父子共同完成的《东坡易传》是易学史上的重要著作。在保持儒学底色的基础上,"三苏"与僧人的交游、论学等经历,使《东坡易传》显示出积极吸收佛学思想的学术品质,而"三苏"也受到了道家、道教思想的深刻影响,主动地化用道家、道教的学说,最终形成了以《易》贯通儒释道三教的治《易》特色。     

Together – apart: in touch in a time of separation

This paper explores the experience of working as a Jungian analyst through the various phases of the global COVID-19 pandemic, examining the importance of the physical containing space alongside the analyst’s internal mind and how technology can both help and hinder understanding. A number of clinical vignettes illustrate the challenge of communicating over a distance, paying particular attention to the way countertransference phenomena can become re-attuned. Reference is made to mythology and symbols of hope, and consideration given to the meaning and purpose of the pandemic.     

The Possibility of Meaning in Human Evolution

Science undermines the certitude of non-naturalistic answers to the question of whether human life has meaning. I explore whether evolution can provide a naturalistic basis for existential meaning. Using the work of philosopher Daniel Dennett and scientist Ursula Goodenough, I argue that evolution is the locus of the possibility of meaning because it has produced intentionality, the matrix of consciousness. I conclude that the question of the meaning of human life is an existentialist one: existential meaning is a product of the individual and collective tasks human beings undertake.     

Phenotypic plasticity and archetype: a response to common objections to the biological theory of archetype and instinct

Since Jung’s death in 1961, scholars have attempted to integrate growing biological science data into Jungian concepts such as the collective unconscious, instincts and the archetypes. This enterprise has been challenging due to persistent false dichotomies of gene and environment occasionally arising. Recent works by Roesler (2022a, 2022b) for example, have raised objections to the biological theory of archetypes, but the objections are plagued by such dichotomies. The concept of phenotypic plasticity, however, helps to both avoid this problem as well as bridge the gap between competing theories into a more integrated model with solid biological foundations.     

When is it time to stop? When good enough becomes bad enough

This article draws on Winnicott’s concept of the good enough mother to discuss how to know whether a therapeutic situation is good enough to continue or bad enough to end. This dilemma is explored in terms of clinical syndromes, such as anorexia and pathological gambling, but focuses mainly on analyst-initiated endings, which are termed the ‘Casablanca dilemma’, based on an amplification of the ending of the film Casablanca. The author goes on to discuss such one-sided endings, drawing on interviews with 40 analysts and therapists about their clinical experience. A typology of bad enough endings is presented. The psychological differences between a good enough analysis as opposed to a bad enough one are explored through the ideas of Winnicott and Neumann.     

Kann Es Ein Argument Für Den Skeptizismus Geben? Das Epistemische Problem Der Irrtumsmöglichkeit

Summary  Is there any argument for scepticism? The epistemic problem of the possibility of error. Arguments for scepticism rest on the assumption that knowledge claims are fallible. For this reason the concept of knowledge appears to be questionable. Since it is necessary to distinguish doubts from possible doubts, the arguments for scepticism appear to be unconvincing. If we take it into account that we know something that is immune to doubt, we should draw the conclusion that, contrary to scepticism, knowledge claims have to be compatible with being fallible. Thus any knowledge claim is capable of being doubted.     

The transcendent function in Spitteler’s Prometheus and Epimetheus

In August 2020, John Beebe and Steve Myers met via Zoom to discuss their differing interpretations of psychological typology and the different sources within Jung’s writings that influenced their books: Integrity in Depth: Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type (Beebe), and Myers-Briggs Typology vs Jungian Individuation (Myers). The discussion centred on Spitteler’s epic poem Prometheus und Epimetheus, which forms the basis of chapter V of Psychological Types. This is both the largest chapter and one of two chapters that Jung highlighted in the Argentine foreword as containing the essence of the book. Jung’s book is primarily about the transformation of personality rather than the categorization of people. Although it contains a critical psychology that deconstructs the nature of consciousness, that is only one half of the book and a stepping-stone to the other half, which is the reconciliation of opposites with particular emphasis on the relation of consciousness and the unconscious. Jung assumed that readers were already familiar with Prometheus und Epimetheus, an understanding of which sheds light on the nature of the transformation that Jung described – the development of a new attitude towards attitude itself.     

Chapter 6: Biblical Foundations for a Practical Theology of Aging

SUMMARY

This article reviews Biblical sources pertaining to the elderly, particularly the frail elderly. Founded on these sources, implications for elderly with Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of dementia are addressed through a personal perspective informed by writings of Christian mystics.     

Seeing in the Dark: A View into Dissociation and Healing

In this paper, I will explore the role of art-making, the experience of trauma and dissociation, and the process of working with self-states from an analytic and creative frame. Relevant literature on dissociation, trauma, and the use of art will be discussed. A case involving my work with an adolescent girl who had experienced sexual abuse from a family member will be shared, with an emphasis on the meaningful role images played during the therapeutic process. Both Jungian and psychoanalytic models of conceptualizing and working with dissociation are included, following Donald Kalsched’s (2013) recommendation for a “binocular stance” to treatment, including both a focus on the inner, intrapsychic world and the interpersonal, relational realm, and how art images both illuminated and expressed these realms. Within the therapeutic process, art images allowed the therapist a view into the client’s unconscious process, and created a meeting ground for dissociative barriers to be gradually seen, felt and known, by both therapist and client. The experience of dissociation, in images and in session, provided a reference point for myself and my client, Taylor, to develop a shared understanding and a framework for growth.