Sidney W. Bijou (1908–2009)

The Psychological Record -     

The Centenary of the Death of Vladimir Solov'ëv (1853–1900)

Studies in East European Thought -     

E.弗罗姆研究(续)

四弗罗姆的“逃避自由”理论研究弗罗姆是在批判法西斯主义过程中提出他的“逃避自由”理论的。东西方不少学者对弗罗姆注重分析法西斯主义产生和流传的心理根源,给予高度肯定,认为这不但在法西斯主义正猖狂的当年对人们有启发作用,而且就是在今天也值得人们深思。罗宾逊指出,尽管弗罗姆的《逃避自由》一书的出版,迟于赖希的《法西斯主义的大众心理学》,甚至可以说,前者是在后者的影响下写成的,但“弗罗姆的研究水平远远超过了赖希”,弗罗姆对法西斯主义心理根源的分析使不少人“佩服得五体投地”。我们国内甚至有人提出,应把弗罗姆的     

In Memory of P. F. Strawson (1919–2006)

Abstract

This note introduces papers presented at a 2007 conference in memory of Peter Strawson and published in this issue.     

The shield of pallas: The virtual contemplation of the human soul: The aesthetic of Fr. Arthur Little S.J. (1887–1949)

This paper explores the extreme but well-argued-for thesis that the indirect object of an aesthetic experience of serious art is the human soul of the person having the experience. The author of the thesis was Fr. Arthur Little S.J. a mid twentieth-century Irishman, professional philosopher and philosophical popularizer. The paper treats Little’s thesis seriously: comparisons are drawn with Kant, which may be of interest even to those hostile to Little’s central assertion. Little makes a brilliant analysis of a ‘free-beauty’, making the sharpest contrast between this and the most serious art, tragedy. Tragedy, Little holds Kant not able to cope with. One agrees. The people who cry before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. Mark Rothko This book is a development of a series of lectures given to the Study Club of the Central Catholic Library in Dublin. The view of art that it proposes is, for reasons explained in the book, more exactly called Aristotelean than Thomistic. But where it has been necessary to base conclusions in aesthetics on philosophical presuppositions outside of that science the philosophy presupposed will be Thomism. Even so, however, the Thomistic doctrine, that must be accepted by anyone who will assent to the book’s thesis, is consistent with most philosophical positions that are not openly or latently materialistic. Anyone who believein the spirituality of the soul can accept that thesis… Arthur Little S.J.