孔子与《易传》相关问题覆议

孔子赞<易>,作<十翼>,自<史><汉>以来,学者习承其说.下逮北宋,始有疑其说之不足恃者;嗣后绍述,代不乏人.民初疑古学风盛兴,疑者益众;然笃信旧说者亦未灭迹.近年大陆地下考古发掘出土文物,其盛迈逾前代,尤如马王堆帛本<易>经、传之面世,于传世文献外增加不少可供参考之资料,引起海内外<易>学研究者的热烈讨论.然而对于孔门传<易>此一近千年以来争讼不休的论题,事实上并未因出土文献而得以论定.近年海峡两岸学者论及此题,即有据新出土文物以坚旧说者;亦有因之而作其他推论以修正新说者.本文即就此一问题,综合传世文献与新出资料重作检讨,提出个人浅见,虽不足以尽释群疑,然于若干相关问题,庶或可得相当的厘清.     

论易学史研究在易佛关系问题上的两个疏忽——兼谈太虚大师的易学思想

易学是中国学术史上的一大显学。学界对于易学史的研究已取得了相当的成就,但这一成就背后却还留存着一个遗憾．那就是我们的易学史研究疏忽了易佛关系这一大课题,这包括两个方面(一)我们没有研究在佛教传入中国的前期,为什么佛教在与儒学和道学相沟通的同时却不与易学相沟通;(二)我们没有重视宋明以后存在的大规模的易佛沟通现象。本文以素描的方式勾画出了一幅被学者们忽略了的易佛关系图,有理有据地对疏忽易佛关系的研究状态提出了警策,并以太虚大师的易学思想为例,说明了易佛关系是不应该被疏忽的。     

《周易参同契》的月体纳甲学

《周易参同契》所推阐的金丹原理,将丹道与易道结合,运用汉代象数易学的成果,巧妙地阐明了修炼金丹的道理和方法。它的“月体纳甲说”用周易八卦模拟月体在太空运行过程中,一月之内所出现的晦朔弦望之盈虚变化,并以其出没方位作为纳甲的依据。它的“乾体六爻模拟月相说”,以乾六爻之象模拟月体的晦朔弦望,以明阴阳的消长变化。它的“十二消息卦变说”,以十二辟卦论说周天火候,以明进阳火和退阴符之分。     

基于项目的方差分析探讨

该文对近年来国内外盛行的基于项目的方差分析做了一个系统深入的探讨。作者首先指出,实验中的项目也可以像实验中的被试一样作为实验单位。据此,从理论上可以区分出两类基本实验设计：项目内（组内）设计和项目间（组间）设计。这样相应于基于项目的实验设计,基于项目的方差分析就可以被用于实验数据的处理了。进行基于项目的方差分析的意义在于,能把实验中得到的结果推广到实验项目所代表的项目总体或类似的项目总体上去。作者最后指出,对实验数据进行基于项目的方差分析的必要条件是项目为随机变量,并不是在所有的实验中都可以进行基于项目的方差分析。     

Spontaneous number representation in mosquitofish

While there is convincing evidence that preverbal human infants and non-human primates can spontaneously represent number, considerable debate surrounds the possibility that such capacity is also present in other animals. Fish show a remarkable ability to discriminate between different numbers of social companions. Previous work has demonstrated that in fish the same set of signature limits that characterize non-verbal numerical systems in primates is present but yet to provide any demonstration that fish can really represent number rather than basing their discrimination on continuous attributes that co-vary with number. In the present work, using the method of ‘item by item’ presentation, we provide the first evidence that fish are capable of selecting the larger group of social companions relying exclusively on numerical information. In our tests subjects could choose between one large and one small group of companions when permitted to see only one fish at a time. Fish were successful when both small (3 vs. 2) and large numbers (8 vs. 4) were involved and their performance was not affected by the density of the fish or by the overall space occupied by the group.     

儒家文化在心理健康教育中的价值

“健康是人类的肉体、精神和社会康乐的完美状态,而不是仅仅指无疾病或无体弱的状态。”随着医疗卫生事业的发展,身体疾病对人类健康的威胁已相对减少,而因生活中的各种矛盾使人遭受挫折所引起的心理疾病却日益增多。作为人类智慧结晶的儒家文化,对于提高现代人的心理素质和增进心理健康会起到潜移默化的积极作用。     

Value expectation confirmation and word-of-mouth intention among international tourists of a cultural festival experience

We examined expectation conformation and word-of-mouth marketing intention among international tourists (177 white; 138 black; and 98 Asian) who experienced a tourism promotion cultural festival event; taking into account their personal, artistic, and societal cultural values. We applied multiple regression analysis to predict expectation conformation and word-of-mouth marketing intention from the tourists’ personal, artistic, and societal cultural values. For the white and Asian tourists, sociocultural value predicted expectation confirmation the most. For the black tourists, personal value explained their expectation confirmation more than did sociocultural value. Culturally framed perceived values appear to influence the ways tourists respond to tourism festivals.     

决策过程中的记忆可提取性效用

记忆的可提取性效用是人们在评估过往事件时所感受到的愉悦或满意程度, 这种评估建立在人们从记忆中提取出的信息基础上。研究发现, 人们对过往事件进行评估时会出现违反效用最大化原则的决策, 主要表现在三个实验现象上：峰终律、时长忽视和违背单调叠加性。研究者多从原型判断的角度去理解这些现象, 但可提取性效用是否还有其他内在机制仍然有待进一步研究。     

Flashpoints in Interpreting Paul

In this article, Luther Seminary New Testament scholar Arland Hultgren outlines the unresolved issues of the “New Perspective on Paul”: (1) the question of legalism in pre‐Pauline Judaism; (2) justification by faith; and (3) the use of the objective or subjective genitive in the “pistis Christou Debate.” On the question as to whether Luther got Paul right, Hultgren points out a difficulty, namely, those addressing this question frequently fail to designate precisely what they mean by “Lutheran.”     

RETRACTED ARTICLE: On the illuminationist approach to imaginal power: outline of a perspective

Imagination has always been a mysterious issue for modern philosophy and psychology. In this paper, however, I will not deal with modern theories of imagination; instead, I will suggest an alternative notion of imaginal power by stepping back toward Persian illuminative thought within which we may glimpse a hint of a transcendent concept of imagination as the source of human subjectivity and its power to create the object and the world. My objective here is to extend some noetic aspects of this concept and extract further conclusions theoretically. To this end, I will first introduce a brief account of the noetic characteristic of the Illuminationist perspective of the imagination, then I outline aspects of its efficiency which may shed some light on the modern debate on the subject and its relation to the object.