《补斋口授易说》考

《四库全书》著录《补斋口授易说》一书曰,门人永丰周佐编次,而补斋未详何人。今以方志及史传文集中考得补斋姓丁,名玑,字玉夫,丹徒人。生于天顺元年丁丑,卒于弘治十六年癸亥,成化十四年进士,后历任中书舍人、普安州判、广信通判、兴国知州、南京仪制郎中、广东按察副使等职.门下弟子有周佐、周价、靳贵、唐侃等人。补斋另有著作《洪范正误》、《大学疑义》、《四礼仪注》、《补斋集》等.     

帛书《易之义》键川、阴阳、刚柔、文武思想合论

帛书《易之义》通过对《周易》卦象的分析,探讨了键川、阴阳、刚柔、文武的意蕴,凸显了阴阳协调、刚柔相济、中和的思想。作者将这些思想的阐述,导入人生实践,这样便与《中庸》的庸常之道、道家贵柔主张具有相关性。其阴阳调和、刚柔有体而文武兼备的思想倾向,很能说明作者在人生领域的折衷态度和价值取向。     

以《易》解《华严经》──李通玄对《华严经》的新诠释

《易》和《华严经》分别是儒家和佛教的经典。李通玄以《易》及儒家传统的观点诠释《华严经》，开创了理解华严的新途径。本文从“外道”概念的理解和李氏运用易学思想解释《华严经》中“十方神”入手，分析了他的思想特色，文章最后对这种沟通儒佛之尝试的哲学意义作了发掘。     

Science and Technology in Non-Western Cultures

Seline's edited volume relevates non-Western interaction between religious and scientific domains of human intellectual history. Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Chinese thinkers have played central roles in pursuing intellectual inquiry into topics of broad human concern. Although copious and nuanced literary collections in Arabic, Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan languages document non-Western contributions, these primary sources often are inaccessible to Western scholars, creating the false illusion that members of non-Western cultures have offered only marginal contributions to the rigorous investigation of the natural world. This illusion is dispelled thoroughly by a number of excellent articles contained in Seline's volume.     

"三陈九卦"章考释

《易传》以孔子的易学观为指导,吸取《论语》、《孟子》、《左传》、《国语》中的伦理道德观念及其言说方式,提出“三陈九卦”说,对履、谦、复等九卦反复加以论述,将孔子“观其德义”的思想具体化,要求人们提高道德境界,以此作为防止和解除忧患的依据,对儒家人文主义易学观的确立作出了重要贡献。     

《易传》道家说质疑

本文从陈鼓应先生论证“《易传》道家说”的重点文章《〈彖传〉与老庄》、《〈彖传〉的道家思维方式》出发,不仅指出其论据方面的不足,而且指出其论证方法是使用“丐辞”、“默证”。因此,《彖传》不能成立。甚至陈先生所用的“道家”这一名目,也不适当。从而说明“《易传》道家说”不能成立,其“道家主干说”也因此缺少重要文献材料,难以服人。     

《焦氏易林》之管见

本文探讨了<焦氏易林>的诸子倾向、时代根据及风格.认为作者基本倾向是儒家,兼采道家.作者的儒家思想有进取性,反映了汉代上升时期社会需要创新敢于创新的境界.作者官微职卑,直接接触平民,大量记载平民生活,表达了对平民的深厚感情.     

Führt die evolutionäre Erkenntnistheorie in einen Relativismus?

This essay is a discussion of Eve-Marie Engels' view on Evolutionary Epistemology (EE). In the first part two of the main doctrines of EE are criticized: (1.) that validity of human knowledge is to be explained as the result of evolutionary adaptation; yet (2.), that human cognitive capacities had been adequate to our ancestors life conditions but fail in relevant situations of modern world. In the second part the concept of reality underlying EE's adaptational view is discussed and compared with Jean Piaget's concept of reality. Finally, it is held that some of the questions recently raised by proponents of EE, far from being new, have been dealt with already in historical epistemology.

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Diese Arbeit entstand im Rahmen des Projekts Nr. 11-2224.87 des Schweizerischen Nationalfonds.     

The minimal self hypothesis

For millennia self has been conjectured to be necessary for consciousness. But scant empirical evidence has been adduced to support this hypothesis. Inconsistent explications of “self” and failure to design apt experiments have impeded progress. Advocates of phenomenological psychiatry, however, have helped explicate “self,” and employed it to explain some psychopathological symptoms. In those studies, “self” is understood in a minimalist sense, sheer “for-me-ness.” Unfortunately, explication of the “minimal self” (MS) has relied on conceptual analysis, and applications to psychopathology have been hermeneutic, allowing for many degrees of interpretive latitude. The result is that MS’s current scientific status is analogous to that of the “atom,” at the time when “atom” was just beginning to undergo transformation from a philosophical to a scientific concept. Fortunately, there is now an opportunity to promote a similar transformation for “MS.” Discovery of the brain’s Default Mode Network (DMN) opened the door to neuroimaging investigations of self. Taking the DMN and other forms of intrinsic activity as a starting point, an empirical foothold can be established, one that spurs experimental research and that enables extension of research into multiple phenomena. New experimental protocols that posit “MS” can help explain phenomena hitherto not thought to be related to self, thereby hastening development of a mature science of self. In particular, targeting phenomena wherein consciousness is lost and recovered, as in some cases of Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome (UWS), allow for design of neuroimaging probes that enable detection of MS during non-conscious states. These probes, as well as other experimental protocols applied to NREM Sleep, General Anesthesia (GA), and the waking state, provide some evidence to suggest that not only can self and consciousness dissociate, MS might be a necessary precondition for conscious experience. Finally, these findings have implications for the science of consciousness: it has been suggested that “levels of consciousness” (LoC) is not a legitimate concept for the science of consciousness. But because we have the conceptual and methodological tools with which to refine investigations of MS, we have the means to identify a possible foundation—a bifurcation point—for consciousness, as well as the means by which to measure degrees of distance from that foundation. These neuroimaging investigations of MS position us to better assess whether LoC has a role to play in a mature science of consciousness.