Kant??s view on the parent-child relationship and its problems??Analyses from a temporal perspective as to the creation and rearing of a being endowed with freedom

This article will probe into Kant’s viewpoints about parent-child relationship so as to demonstrate that they are inspiring on the one hand—for example on dealing with the relationship as that pertinent to the thing in itself, but on the other hand, there are many flaws. His strategy on avoiding the difficulty of “creating by man a being endowed with freedom” depends merely on an one-sided comprehension of time, because according to Kant himself, there is a difference as to the time between sensual forms of intuition and expressive form of transcendental imagination. In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant gives a profound enunciation with respect to the two and the latter is related to “free causality” and “categorical imperative” in his moral philosophy. Once it refers to the rights of a being endowed with freedom and the time it requires to maintain them, it is problematic to assert that the creation of such beings is not concerned with, in any sense whatsoever, time and the sensual, mortal body. What is more, Kant failed to take into full consideration that parents are also beings endowed with freedom whose rights to the child are not totally dependent on the latter’s inherent rights but on their own inherent basis. Granting parents too few natural rights, Kant on the other hand allocates them too much obligations in that the parent-child relation is unbalanced in his field of view. Thirdly, he gives no consideration as to whether or not the empirical process of rearing children itself can also create some rights, which nevertheless, should be taken into account when temporal elements can be found from the very original parent-child relationship.     

A novel lattice correspondence of B19 → B19′ transformation in Ti–Ni–Cu shape memory alloy thin film

In this study, we found a novel lattice correspondence of the B19–B19′ transformation in a Ti–Ni–Cu thin film: (1?1?1)_B19′//(0?0?1)_B19, [0, 1, 1]_B19′//[1?0?0]_B19. Near the coarse precipitate and the grain boundaries, the B19′ martensite forms with the novel lattice correspondence to product the (1?1?1) type I twinning instead of the usual (0?0?1) compound twinning. Crystallographic analyses show that the novel lattice correspondence results from the local stress concentration.     

海德格尔后期著作中"Ereignis"的含义

“Ereignis”如一个谜,除了寻常义、字面义之外,还有待猜的结构之义和深层之义。它表达的“自身的缘发生”,是一个对立结构所造就的原初生成,既无任何实体的设定,又能达到真理和神意,所以总在转向的生成之中,并与海德格尔本人思想的“转向”相关。这样的思想主导词,不可直接翻译,却与中国的“道”有着微妙的联系,而海德格尔想要说明和意译“道”的努力,也很有助于理解“Ereignis”。对这个词的翻译不可本质化。     

The Marginality of Phenomenology

The essence of Husserl’s intentionality does not lie in any object, but in the marginal horizon presupposed by intentional acts. This characteristic can be seen whether on the level of intensional act or that of noema (intentional object). The reason is that all intentional act and noema come from the stream of internal time consciousness, and thus have Zeithof (time halo or time aureole), while the original meaning constituted by such a halo is prior to the object they are concretized into, and the noema that contains the possibility of meaning will also be intuited together with the perceived adumbration. Using Husserl’s idea that the meaning of non-objectification is prior to the object, Scheler breaks through Husserl’s dogma that the presentation of an object must precede the giving of value to the object, and thus puts forward the new train of thought that the feeling of value is not later than the objectification, or even prior to it. Heidegger deepens and expands the sense of the marginal horizon, revealing in all human behaviors and world presentation such an ontological structure, that is, halo-like meaning or the act of Being itself precedes objects and beings created by the separation of subject and object. Maurice Merleau-Ponty states that the body field is prior to the separation of body and mind, and the body’s perception of external phenomena is first carried out in the manner of field rather than definite objects, therefore, it must have the original ambiguity and be realized in the form of body schema instead of a causal chain. So, the philosophical vitality of phenomenology does not significantly lie in the explanation of the levels and functions of intentional objects, but in the construction premise of such objects, namely, the spatio-temporal halo manifested as marginal horizon, time stream, and the displaying of existential vista.     

A New Second-Generation Mindfulness-Based Intervention Focusing on Well-Being: A Randomized Control Trial of Mindfulness-Based Positive Psychology

Second-generation mindfulness-based interventions (SG-MBIs) align well with positive psychology philosophy and practices, but trials of SG-MBIs have largely focused on ill-being. This study developed a mindfulness-based positive psychology (MBPP) intervention integrating positive psychology with an SG-MBI to enhance well-being. A randomized control trial was performed to compare MBPP with a waitlist condition among 138 Chinese participants. The results showed that MBPP significantly reduced negative emotions for subjective well-being and significantly improved environmental mastery for psychological well-being. Improvements in self-compassion and negative attitudes but not avoidance, mediated changes in well-being. Changes in positive emotions, positive relations, and awareness were associated with the amount of meditation practice. These findings showed that MBPP is promising for improving well-being and that the positive psychology components play important roles. Broadly, the study illustrated that positive psychology and SG-MBIs can be effectively integrated, and it supported the further application of SG-MBIs from the positive psychology perspective.

     

儒家原文化主导地位之含义——儒家复活的意识前提以及与印第安文化的对比

一直到20世纪初,儒家是中华民族两三千年中的原本主导文化。但是,跟印第安文化一样,儒家文化也因其非普遍主义的特征,被残暴卑劣的西方入侵者所毁掉或严重摧残;中国人今天面临着一项困难的任务:如何找回已经失去了的文化主体,让她重获生命。应对所有这些困难和实现这些设想之前,必须确立儒家在中国知识分子心中的原文化主导地位,确认儒家主体在现代中国的消失是西方武力侵略和文化侵略的结果。恢复儒家和儒家文化的生存是中国政府、中华民族和中国知识分子不可推卸的责任,也是所有曾经在中国犯下毁灭文化罪行的列强和组织不可逃避的赎罪责任。儒家知识分子们如果没有这个意识,不足以成为儒者。儒家文化的真实身体———儒家的真实团体、儒家存活所赖的社会结构等等———必须复活,以作为一切儒家活动、学派、流派存在的不二前提和生命土壤。此乃儒家的纯存在或"儒在",是它使得一切儒家的存在者们可能;此乃儒家的历史原文,是它使得一切后起的注释、改写、翻译、发挥可能。要通过各传统民族的原文化的复活和全球主导文化的多样化来获得新的人类生机和平衡结构,我们的希望在于一个全人类的文化生态多样性,一个以民族原文化为基本单位的"联合国"。