Modern Psychology and Ancient Wisdom: Psychological Healing Practices From the World's Religious Traditions

Book reviewed in this article: Sharon G. Mijares, Ed. (2003). Modern Psychology and Ancient Wisdom: Psychological Healing Practices From the World's Religious Traditions.     

Wisdom in Love: Kierkegaard and the Ancient Quest for Emotional Integrity

Book reviewed:
Wisdom in Love: Kierkegaard and the Ancient Quest for Emotional Integrity by Rick Anthony Furtak (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005) xii + 236 pp. Reviewed by M. Jamie Ferreira Department of Religious Studies Halsey Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA     

Images and Symbols in Ancient and Modern Sport

Several aspects of human life are pervaded with images and symbols that often belong to what Jung (1981 Jung, G. Carl. 1981. Archetypes and the collective unconscious, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.  [Google Scholar]) called archetypes, characteristics of the mind with a profound influence on most aspects of culture and sport. The rationality introduced into our society, as the fruit of both the positivist concept of progress and the rapid development of technology, has, albeit while driving out excessiveness due to irrational explanations and often knavery, also disregarded the importance of images and symbols in everyday life. Yet a number of these inevitably still exist, since they are archetypal. With this observation as a starting point, the present work has been designed to analyse whether it is still possible to find ancient images and symbols in modern sport activities. The a priori reason for such a question arises from the acceptance that modern and ancient sports are profoundly different. This has been historically proved in terms of organisation and quantification, among other characteristics (Guttmann 1978 Guttmann, Allen. 1978. From ritual to record, New York: Columbia University Press.  [Google Scholar]).

The present analysis refers to a limited number of images and symbols concerning ancient and modern sport, which include a primordial Ur-symbol, that of bodily action or of body in movement. Others concern various aspects of the athlete's life, such as expression of religious beliefs, immortality, eternal return and the front. It suggests that many of these images and symbols may still be found in contemporary sports, in open contrast with some of the Olympic principles suggested by De Coubertin and chiefly prevalent in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.     

试图定义真乃是愚蠢的

围绕塔斯基真之语义学看法的讨论形成了语言哲学的核心内容。从塔斯基的T语句以及他的一些相关论述出发,不少人认为他与亚里士多德一样,是一个真之符合论者;也有人认为他为紧缩论提供了支持;还有人依据他的思想提出了去引号的真之理论。这些不同看法和讨论涉及语言层面与其所表达的事实层面之间的关系,涉及语言的句法形式和语义结构的特征之间的关系,等等。戴维森对这些不同看法以及其他一些看法进行了讨论,并且提出了自己多年来一些反复思考的看法。     

聆听自然 随道而动——简论道教生态智慧的现代价值

当今世界,有一个有关生态的热议话题——全球气候变暖。9月22日各国领导人齐聚联合国总部纽约联合国气候变化峰会,共商应对气候变化的大计。     

Confucian Order at the Edge of Chaos: The Science of Complexity and Ancient Wisdom

Many academics extol chaos theory and the science of complexity as significant scientific advances with application in such diverse fields as biology, anthropology, economics, and history. In this paper we focus our attention on structure-within-chaos and the dynamic self-organization of complex systems in the context of social philosophy. Although the modern formulation of the science of complexity has developed out of late-twentieth-century physics and computational mathematics, its roots may extend much deeper into classical thinking. We argue here that the essential ideas and predictions of the science of complexity are found within the social ordering principle of li (the rites) in Confucius's Analects .     

Pursuing Wisdom: An Investigation of the Relationship Between Some Ancient Religious Concepts of Wisdom and Current Notions of Critical Thinking Within Information Literacy

In a recent research project, I asked first year college students if they felt they used wisdom when doing research on the Internet. Coming from faith-based contexts, they did not consider the question an unusual one. However, in my discussions of information literacy at the library school, the concept of wisdom was not as common. Following the work of Maxwell and Targowski, this article will investigate connections between current discussion on critical thinking and some ancient ideals of wisdom from the Book of Proverbs and the Analects of Confucius with the hope that such insight will inform and improve our perspective and practice of information literacy.     

人慧与物慧:基于智慧描述词与提名智慧者的分类

为揭示一般人内隐的智慧分类机制及智慧类型,考察了51名硕士生对智慧描述词和提名智慧者的分类。多维标度分析与聚类分析表明,40个智慧描述词的语义空间包括人文才能/科技才能和内在特质/外在表现两个维度,分为自然科学才能、社会科学才能和人文科学才能三类;40个提名智慧者的语义空间包括自然科学者/人文社科者和人际间的/个人内的两个维度,分为自然智慧者、社会智慧者和人文智慧者三类。综合分类结果及中西智慧文化,根据智慧内包含才能或能力的性质或要解决的问题性质,智慧可分为人慧与物慧两大类型。     

从古今医学观论昼寝与身心健康

昼寝,最早出自于《论语》的“宰予昼寝”,谓当昼而寐,即意为日间小憩。中医学非常肯定睡眠的作用, 昼寝的传统中医理论包括阴阳睡眠学说、营卫睡眠学说和神主睡眠学说。结合目前的研究证据从心理和生理两方面概述了昼寝对人体健康的影响。昼寝在心理层面能改善主观的困倦和疲劳程度,还能改善认知能力和记忆能力,提高注意力、警觉性。在生理层面,昼寝与否及昼寝时长与一些心脑血管疾病、内分泌疾病、呼吸系统疾病患病风险密切相关。研究发现昼寝对人体健康的影响存在两面性,应根据身体状态、作息习惯等因人制宜。

     

关于伦理道德与智慧

伦理道德与智慧的关系是一个有着重要的理论和现实意义的课题。伦理、道德与智慧都有联系,但本身都不是智慧。伦理智慧与道德智慧相通,但两者不是同一种意义上的智慧。伦理智慧与道德智慧具有多方面的社会价值,提倡伦理智慧和道德智慧有助于当代中国的社会改革和全面进步,为此需要对中国传统伦理思想和道德价值进行批判性的反思。     

伦理与智慧--兼与于树贵先生商榷

随着我国社会主义市场经济体制的确立和运行以及国外文化思潮的卷入 ,人们既有的行为习惯和思维模式遭到了前所未有的冲击和刷新 ,道德和法律等社会规范问题日益凸显并为学界所广泛重视。于树贵先生《伦理是一种智慧》一文 (载《哲学动态》 2 0 0 1年第 5期 ,下称《伦》文 )以独特的视角剖析了伦理道德与智慧的关系 ,其中不乏深刻之处 ,笔者深受启发。但《伦》文对伦理智慧和道德规范所作的某些理解和分析 ,笔者思之再三 ,实难苟同。故不揣浅陋 ,坦陈己见 ,以就教于学界同仁和于树贵先生。伦理何种意义上成为一种智慧 ?伦理智慧主要表现在哪…     

我国古代智能观的现代诠释

本文根据“现代诠释”的方法论要求,把我国古代的智能观划分为五个方面,即智能先天基础论、智能后天发展论、智能天人结合论、智能相对独立论、智力与非智力因素相互制约论。并对之进行了系统的分析。     

Wisdom

What is it that makes someone wise, or one person wiser than another? I argue that wisdom consists in knowledge of how to live well, and that this knowledge of how to live well is constituted by various further kinds of knowledge. One concern for this view is that knowledge is not needed for wisdom but rather some state short of knowledge, such as having rational or justified beliefs about various topics. Another concern is that the emphasis on knowing how to live well fails to do justice to the ancient tradition of ‘theoretical wisdom’. I address both of these concerns in filling out the account.     

施特劳斯论德性与古今自由主义

施特劳斯批评现代自由主义放弃了对德性的追求,不再把自由与德性联系起来。以霍布斯为视角批评现代自由主义的过程中,施特劳斯指出,作为现代自由主义的奠基者,霍布斯修正了西方传统道德法则,用有利于和平的习惯取代了传统意义上有利于灵魂完美的德性,造成节制等严肃德性的丧失。以古代自由主义为视角批评现代自由主义的过程中,施特劳斯指出,自由的原初含义是追求德性,古代自由主义追求德性,但现代自由主义不再将自由与德性联系起来,甚至不再认为自由与德性有何联系。施特劳斯表明,现代自由主义对德性的弃绝是坚定彻底的。     

中国古代品德考评方法及其对当代品德测量的启示

1　考评方法1.1　他评法它指主考者运用某种方法来对他人的品德进行考评的方法。常用的有三种 :1.1.1　“听其言而观其行” :察言观行法。指主考者通过观察一个人的言行来对其品德进行考评的方法。此法由孔子明确提出。据《论语·公冶长》记载 ,孔子曾说 :“今吾于人也 ,听其言而观其行。”《论语·为政》记载了孔子的具体做法 :“视其所以 ,观其所由 ,察其所安。”即观察一个人所结交的朋友 ,观察一个人为达到某种目的所采用的方法 ,观察一个人的心情安于什么不安于什么 ,就能洞察其品德的好坏。此法其后代有继承人。如王充在《论衡·定贤…