《气本与神化:张载哲学述论》序

张载的哲学思想研究,20世纪以来,受到学者的相当重视.胡适于1919年出版的<中国哲学史大纲>(卷上)只写出了先秦部分,故对于宋元明清的道学或理学全未涉及.其实,以胡适当时的思想和心态,他也不太可能对道学或理学的思想有深入的理解.冯友兰先生在1930年代初期完成了<中国哲学史>上下卷,此书得到当时学界的一致好评,认为全面超越了胡书,其原因固然是冯书完整地叙述了先秦至晚清的中国哲学史,更主要的则是,胡适的<中国哲学史大纲>详于文字的考证训诂和历史境况的介绍,对文字所表达的哲学义理体会较浅,而冯书不重文字的训诂考证及相关的历史背景,而特重于哲学义理的了解体会.     

试谈修道者的孤独与寂寞

在一般人眼里,修道者总是孤独与寂寞的.他们总是过着晨钟暮鼓,清灯伴黄卷,形单影孤的清淡生活,与世无争,常表现为孤独与寂寞的样子.但是为何多少年来,都有不少修道者,愿意过着这种生活方式呢?这种孤独与寂寞的生活方式里面,有什么原因值得这些修道者耗上毕生精力去做呢?是注定他们的生活方式就得这样呢?还是另有什么原因让他们有理由过上这种生活?下面就谈谈自己的看法.     

陈寅恪与佛教研究

佛教研究曾经是陈寅恪学术研究的一个重镇,也是他最为拿手的好戏之一,并且业已取得了为世人所瞩目的成就;但他最终还是放弃了对佛教的研究。本文首先概述陈寅恪学习、研究佛教的经历,然后论述其佛教研究论著,并且做出几点价值判断,最后剖析陈寅恪为什么放弃了对佛教的研究。     

《道德经》和谐思想的现实意义

书于二千五百多年前的老子《道德经》，不仅在中华民族传承的历史中愈益生辉，而且早在唐代就被译成梵文流传国外。老子《道德经》的思想，在我国具有深远的影响，对世界的影响也越来越大。上个世纪初，《道德经》在世界上已有七八十种外文译本，几乎每一种语言都至少有一种译本。     

启蒙反思三题

如何看待启蒙运动对于传统的否定,现在大家的认识基本上趋于一致,就是不管是西方启蒙对基督宗教的全盘否定,还是中国近代启蒙对中国传统的全盘否定,这种思潮都慢慢地过去了.我们倡导启蒙反思,特别是对启蒙运动那种全盘反传统的观念加以反思,这一点应该是确定无疑的.     

Training Young Children to Acknowledge Mixed Emotions

Abstract

The failure of children to acknowledge mixed, contradictory emotions is equally of developmental and clinical interest. Developmentally, children do not ordinarily acknowledge the existence of mixed emotions until late in middle childhood. Clinically, the failure to recognise mixed feelings toward others or self is a common presenting problem. The question addressed here is, how readily can such limitations be corrected in children of different ages. Two studies are reported showing that children as young as 6 and 7 years, who initially revealed little understanding of mixed feelings, showed more insight after a short training session. In Experiment 1. two groups of children were equated for their inability to diagnose the mixed feelings of a story character. Subsequently, both groups were presented with a second story containing a similar conflictual event, but only one group was prompted to consider the character's emotional reaction to each component of the conflict. Children in the prompted group were more accurate in diagnosing the character's emotional reaction at the end of the story than the control group, and they maintained their superiority on a post-test story where no prompts were given. Experiment 2 included a similar training procedure. but with a more stringent measure of post-test generalisation: Children were asked to describe or invent their own examples of emotionally charged conflictual situations. Four- and five-year-olds showed little benefit from the training session, but six- and seven-year-olds again showed considerable benefit. Taken together, the two experiments suggest that young school age children often fail to acknowledge mixed feelings because they engage in a cursory appraisal of the elements of an emotionally charged situation; highlighting the elements is sufficient to improve performance. Preschool children, however, appear to suffer from more basic limitations in their ability to integrate the relevant information.     

政治生活中的哲人:柏拉图论“建议”

本文从柏拉图书简入手,关注柏拉图有关"建议"的论述,并细致分析了柏拉图《书简七》中有关"建议"的原则,力图通过对比柏拉图给人和城邦提建议的原则,揭示柏拉图在政治生活中究竟是怎样一位哲人。