《周易》与中国画——评李巍先生花鸟画

最近在网上看到李巍先生的画作,又见到两篇对李巍先生画作的评论,一篇是葛路先生的<李巍花鸟画品评>,另一篇是友人姜澄清先生的<博采广纳独创求新--李巍画展观后>,作为李巍先生的老友,我于高兴之余心有所感,遂成拙文如下.     

许洁明著:《十七世纪的英国社会》

历史是由多数人的社会活动构成的,历史的书写理应书写历史上的多数人.这是马克思主义唯物史观的要求.中国社会科学出版社2004年3月推出的世界史学术书系中的许洁明教授专著<十七世纪的英国社会>实现了这一要求.为达到这一目标,作者在这部著作的书写上如下三个鲜明的特征,或可称作三个方面的突破.     

中国石窟寺研究的丰碑评《宿白集·中国石窟寺研究》

宿白先生所著《中国石窟寺研究》一书,曾于1996年8月由文物出版社出版,是国家“六五”社会科学规划重点项目成果.其“既使用了全新的材料,又提供了新的研究理论和方法”,因此,1997年获得了美国弗利尔艺术馆及塞克勒博物馆和日本京都大都会东亚艺术研究中心设立的旨在奖励东亚艺术史研究杰出成果的“岛田著作奖”,表明了“国际学术...     

神畅山水之间——从《画山水序》到《叙画》

《画山水序》和《叙画》是中国绘画史上重要的文献,宗炳和王微在这两篇文论中分别提出了"以形媚道""披图幽对""拟太虚之体""故动生焉"的观点。从"以形媚道"到"拟太虚之体",宗炳和王微清晰地说明了绘画本质与道的密切关系,而"披图幽对"与"故动生焉"则共同构成了艺术审美中的二元世界,探索以此来体悟宇宙的精神和生命的秩序。     

《欧阳竟无佛学思想研究》略评

一90年代以来,关注中国近代佛教的学者渐渐多起来了,由于他们的努力,以杨文会、欧阳竟无和太虚、虚云等为代表的一大批近代佛教史上的风云人物又出现在学术著作和刊物里,他们的传奇身世、甚深智慧和渊博学识激动了人们的心灵。这些曾经煊赫一时,后来又几乎全被遗忘的居士和高僧们的重新复活,对中国文化的未来发展有着十分重大的意义。这不仅体现在他们所提供的丰富思想文化资源对未来思想和学术建设的价值,而且体现在他们为法忘身的殉道者精神对于纠正今日中国文化学术界之浮躁学风上。所以我认为应高度重视关于中国近代佛教的研究工…     

评蔡尚思的《评<孔子评传>》——兼评《孔子思想体系》

粉碎“四人帮”、拨乱反正以来,发表了几部关于孔子思想研究的专著和几百篇论文,这些论著观点不一,使孔子的研究空前活跃,呈现出气象万千的局面。然而有一个现象值得注意,就是论者大多各抒己见,互不交锋,即使出现分歧,也多不正面接火。学术研究是在不同观点的相互砥砺、切磋中发展的,不争论则难以长进。为了促进学术研究,本刊特设《争鸣》一栏,并发表汪琴炬同志评论蔡尚思同志关于孔子的观点的文章。这是一个开头,我们希望从此多嗅到一些争论的空气。汪文只代表目前孔子研究中的一种观点,我们深盼持其他观点的学者踊跃赐文。     

中山七帝寺兴废考——解读《隋重修七帝寺碑》

定州中山七帝寺的命运沉浮,生动地见证了北朝后期至隋初重佛与抑佛的政策摇摆。中山是北魏控御太行山以东地区的重镇,太和年间僧晕发起为七位先帝造立大像,是孝文帝庙制改革的直接后果。魏齐禅代之际,高欢的晋阳霸府也设置了七帝寺,并不限于中山一地。东魏孝静帝逊位后封中山王,元氏七庙神主存放于寺中,中山七帝寺与元魏宗庙建立了最密切的关联。随着孝敬帝被杀,神主被毁,此地蜕变为地方寺院。经历了周武法难,寺院经像毁圮,僧人只能通过两位俗家的下级官员赎买旧寺的土地,并推立二人为俗寺主。最终经过申请,成为隋代许可的县级寺院。     

《画山水序》——山水画独立的宣言

山水画的独立,归根到底,是人对自然山水审美态度的确立。这需要两个条件:一是主体与山水的真正融入;二是绘画的才能。而这两点,却在宗炳身上高度地统一起来。他以一篇《画山水序》向世人宣布了中国山水画的独立。     

《制约逻辑》简评——兼评《制约逻辑诞生记》

1985年12月贵州人民出版社出版了林邦瑾的《制约逻辑》一书。1986年8月2日,《人民日报》发表了该报记者王友恭采写的一篇报导《制约逻辑诞生记——中年学者林邦瑾的一项重大理论创造》(以下简称《诞生记》)。《诞生记》对制约逻辑作了下述这样一些评价:“向逻辑史上的前两座丰碑提出了挑战”,“一个崭新的逻辑体系”,制约逻辑“将会提高全人类在一切科学领域中的理论思维     

《中国道教思想史》评介

2009年12月,<中国道教思想史>由人民出版社出版,该书凡四卷,共236万字,由道教学泰斗卿希泰先生任主编,著名道教学者詹石窗先生任副主编,在许多学者的共同努力下,历时12年而完稿.     

McEwen-Induced Modulation of Endocrine History: A Partial Review

In endless facets of physiology, there are points of homeostatic balance, such that too much or too litttle of something can both be deleterious (i.e., an "inverse U" pattern). This is particularly true when considering glucocorticoids (GCs), the adrenals steroid secreted during stress. In the first part of this paper, I review a number of realms in which a paucity and an excess of GCs are both damaging. Some findings are classical (for example, concerning GC effects upon body weight), while some are quite recent and have considerable implications for both physiology and pathophysiology (for example, inverse U's of GC actions in the realm of immunity and neuronal survival). The second part of the review considers the far thornier issue of how such inverse U's of GC actions are generated on a cellular and molecular level. One solution that has evolved, primarily in the hippocampus within the nervous system, involves the presence of two different types of receptors for GCs within the same cells; so long as the two receptors have very different affinities and mediate opposing effects on some cellular endpoint, an inverse U will emerge. The second solution, found in a number of peripheral tissues, involves GCs having opposing effects on the amount of some signal being generated (e.g., an immune cytokine) and the sensitivity of target tissues to that signal; under conditions that appear to be physiologically relevant, inverse U's emerge from this pattern as well. The final section of this review considers the enormous role played by Bruce McEwen in the emergence of this literature. I suggest that while much of this obviously has to do with the facts that have come from his group, another substantial contribution is from his steadying and supportive personality, the veritable embodiment of homeostatic balance.     

Review Essay: The History of Israel Contested and Revised

Books reviewed in this article: Philip R. Davies, In Search of ‘Ancient Israel’ Philip R. Davies, Scribes and Scrolls: The Canonization of the Hebrew Scriptures Lester L. Grabbe (ed.), Can a ‘History of Israel’ Be Written? Niels Peter Lemche, The Israelites in History and Tradition V. Philips Long (ed.), Israel's Past in Present Research: Essays on Ancient Israelite Historiography Thomas L. Thompson, The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel     

Influence of Deviant Friends on Delinquency: Searching for Moderator Variables

Three categories of potential moderators of the link between best friend's deviancy and boys' delinquency during early adolescence were investigated: personal (i.e., disruptiveneness profile during childhood, attitude toward delinquency), familial (i.e., parental monitoring, attachment to parents), and social (i.e., characteristics of other friends). Best friend's and other friends' deviancy were assessed during preadolescence through the use of peer ratings. Potential moderators were assessed at the same age period with teacher ratings or self-reports. Finally, delinquent behaviors were assessed at ages 13 and 14, as well as age 10 for control purposes, with self-reports. Results showed that boys' disruptiveness profiles during childhood, attachment to parents, and attitude toward delinquency moderated the link between best friend's deviancy and later delinquent behaviors. Other friends' deviancy and parental monitoring had main effects but no moderating effects. These results help clarify the conditions under which exposure to a deviant best friend can influence boys' delinquent behaviors. They also help to reconcile different theoretical explanations of the role of deviant friends in the development of delinquency.     

Picture recognition without picture identification: a method for assessing the role of perceptual information in familiarity-based picture recognition

The present study examined the claim that unidentifiable test-pictures are processed and recognized on a perceptual, as opposed to a conceptual, level. Using an extension of the recognition without identification paradigm (e.g., Cleary, A. M. & Greene, R. L. (2000). Recognition without identification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 1063-1069; Peynircioglu, Z. F. (1990). A feeling-of-recognition without identification. Journal of Memory and Language, 29, 493-500), it was observed that when test-pictures were unidentifiable during a masked perceptual identification task, old-new discrimination occurred when the study-list consisted of pictures (Experiments 1-3), but not when the study-list consisted of picture names (Experiment 2) or when picture exemplars served as test-cues (Experiment 3). Results provide converging evidence that a study-test perceptual match is needed for the episodic recognition of unidentified test-pictures. Implications for the present paradigm as a tool for examining the role of perceptual information in recognition-familiarity are discussed.     

Searching for Conscientiousness on the MMPI-2

It has been argued that the revised Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) fails to measure the Big Five dimension of conscientiousness (C) an assertion supported by the research finding that none of the factors underlying the MMPI correlate substantially with the C factor of the NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI)—a popular operationalization of the Big Five model. In this study we reconsidered the relationship between the MMPI-2 item pool and the C factor of the NEO-PI-R (Form S). Collections of MMPI-2 C markers did not correlate much higher than .5 with the NEO-PI-R factor scale in cross-validation hold-out samples. Most pervasive, however, was the finding that MMPI-2 item markers of C were also strongly (in many cases, more highly) related to the NEO-PI-R factor of neuroticism (N). Efforts to purify collections of MMPI-2 C markers, first by careful item selection and then by suppression of N variance, were met with limited success. Intercorrelations among NEO-PI-R scales suggest that the difficulty in finding markers that discriminate between N and C extends beyond any shortcomings of the MMPI-2 item pool.