Discarding the Barthian Spectacles: Part I, Recent Scholarship on the History of Early 20th Century German Protestant Theology

Abstract :  This essay introduces "the veritable renaissance" of scholarly attention devoted to the theologies of the early twentieth century. This "renaissance" challenges us to discard the "Barthian spectacles" through which we have been reading the theological history of this time and to examine more closely the complex context—social, political, churchly, cultural—in which theology was done.     

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way Through the Sermon

Abstract :  The purpose of this article is to give thought to the listener as co-creator of meaning with the preacher during the sermon event. The underlying conviction of the author is that preachers and listeners have always been co-creators but have not been recognized as such. The author sketches the history of the task of preaching as a movement from getting something said to getting something heard , and suggests that, building on this, preaching can now be viewed as getting something created . Finally, the qualities of humility, imagination , and a "catalytic consciousness" are seen as essential for any preacher willing to take up this task.     

Curiosity as an Agent of Conscience

Public outcry against social outrages in our nation in the past few years have called for solutions that suggest that we as a nation believe that by strengthening the observational and punishing components of the superego of the American Psyche we can successfully overthrow our moral failings. By using data in regard to Adolph Eichman and other Nazis as clinical examples, it is suggested that the problem of our moral failings resides not in a deficient superego (a refluent moral agent) but in the insufficient development of conscience (a reflective consciousness). The roles that curiosity and impeded curiosity take in the development of morality are shown to be central to an understanding of how conscience differs from superego.     

中国学生的自我面孔识别

已有研究表明大脑右半球具有自我面孔再认的优势。为了进一步验证这个观点,该研究使用面孔识别任务,以13名右利手的中国大学生为被试,测量被试对morphing面孔的左右手反应差异。给被试呈现第一张面孔向第二张面孔的morphing过程,当被试看到morphing的面孔更像第二张面孔时报告停止。研究有两个morphing过程：一个为由自我面孔向名人面孔morphing,另一个为好朋友面孔（熟悉的）向名人面孔morphing。结果表明当用左手反应时,被试倾向于把morphing的面孔识别为自己,研究中自我面孔再认的左手优势与已有的发现一致。另外,研究还发现在一定trials条件下,熟悉面孔再认也具有左手优势,这一结果与西方被试的结果不一致,但东西方被试对熟悉面孔再认的差异与独立型自我和互倚型自我的观点一致。该文认为神经心理学有关自我的研究可能需要考虑文化和情境的复杂性。     

Accessing the Eternal: Dreaming "The Dreaming" and Ceremonial Performance

Australian Aboriginal cosmology is centered on The Dreaming, which has an eternal nature. It has been referred to as “everywhen” to articulate its timelessness. Starting with the assumption that “waking” reality is only one type of experienced reality, we investigate the concept of timelessness as it pertains to the Aboriginal worldview. We begin by questioning whether in fact “Dreaming” is an appropriate translation of a complex Aboriginal concept, then discuss whether there is any relationship between dreaming and The Dreaming. We then discuss Aboriginal ceremonial performance, during which actors are said to become Dreaming Ancestors, using as a frame of reference the “flow” experience explicated by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi together with Alfred Schutz's “mutual tuning‐in relationship.”     

阿多诺对斯特拉文斯基的三个批判

本文以斯特拉文斯基和勋伯格的音乐观念为契机,分析了阿多诺批判斯特拉文斯基的三个方面：“伪装”的现代音乐、反主体性以及基于本体时间基础的音乐作曲问题;文章进一步分析了阿多诺批判斯特拉文斯基的出发点并指出其不足之处,同时指出阿多诺音乐哲学的社会意义。     

现代医学与人文医学的区别联系及走向--二者的融通才是医学发展之未来

现代医学的基本要素是:现代医学实践过程(包括所有内容、技术、手段和途径),实践的主体对象人和掌握与运用现代技术的人.其主要具有以下特征:(1)关于人的现代医学特征;(2)现代医学的人文文化特征;(3)现代医学工作者职业理性特征;(4)现代医学的人文社会化特征等.现代医学和人文医学的融通才是医学发展之未来.提出加大人文医学和医学伦理学的宣传教育力度,建立人文医学学科机制和搭构行业平台,由政府出面制定现代医学领域行业道德规范,医学科学公约,医疗行业行医准则,医疗道德公约等,四是有计划有目的的实践实际内容和真正意义上的融通.     

帛书《二三子问》“龙之德”之意蕴及忧患意识

帛书《二三子问》作为解经之作,其论述是依《易》之经文展开的。《二三子问》论《易》屡称"龙德",分别从龙与天地阴阳的关系,龙的变化特性,龙之德在人类社会中的体现三个方面进行论证,表达作者的易学观。在此基础上,《二三子问》的作者通过对卦爻辞的诠释,以阐述施政艰难的方式表达忧患意识,同时通过比较人君、贤者、君子、小人的不同德行,表达重德的核心观念,凸显忧患意识。     

The effects of priming legal concepts on perceived trust and competitiveness, self-interested attitudes, and competitive behavior

Socio-legal scholars have suggested that, as a ubiquitous social system, law shapes social reality and provides interpretive frameworks for social relations. Across five studies, we tested the idea that the law shapes social reality by fostering the assumptions that people are self-interested, untrustworthy, and competitive. In Studies 1 and 2, we found that people implicitly associated legal concepts with competitiveness. Studies 3-5 showed that these associations had implications for social perceptions, self-interested attitudes, and competitive behavior. After being primed with constructs related to the law, participants perceived social actors as less trustworthy and the situation as more competitive (Study 3), became more against a political issue when it conflicted with their normative self-interest (Study 4), and made more competitive choices during a prisoner’s dilemma game when they believed that social relations were basically zero-sum in nature (Study 5). The implications and applications of these results are discussed.