MIGRANT DOMESTIC CAREWORKERS: Between the Public and the Private in Catholic Social Teaching

This essay argues that Catholic (magisterial) social teaching's division of ethics into public and private creates a structural lacuna which makes it almost impossible to envision a truly just situation for migrant domestic careworkers (MDCs) within the current horizon of Catholic social thought. Drawing on a variety of sociological studies, I conclude that it is easy for MDCs to “disappear” between two countries, two families, and, finally, two sets of ethical norms. If the magisterium genuinely wishes Catholic ethicists to address the plight of these migrant women, normative Catholic social teaching must pay more attention to household sociological realities and more fully absorb the feminist critique of the sharp line between the public and the private, between care and paid work.     

伊斯兰社会福利思想浅析

伊斯兰社会福利思想是在伊斯兰教的信仰体系下,用来指导团体和个人从事各种旨在改善和提高人民生活水平的社会福利实践的思想。这一思想如今仍然在很大程度上影响着穆斯林的福利实践。本文从救助性和发展性两个方面对伊斯兰教社会福利思想做了简单的探讨。     

中西重商思想之源的跨文化阐释

15—17世纪，重商主义在西方一度盛行，极大改变了欧洲各国的经济、政治和文化形态。追溯其思想之源，最终必寻至古代希腊。在中国，虽然从来没有这一学派体系，但是重商思想在春秋时期却已经产生，战国时期则进一步发展，齐国堪称代表。本文将主要以齐国和古希腊为例，从跨文化的角度比较双方各自重商思想产生的条件、思想主张与实践结果，为我国当前的经济，文化建设提供有益的借鉴。     

现代世界观中的意识及其哲学难题从《太玄》看量子计算数制问题的两难境遇

数制体系是描述计算过程的基础工具,传统的二进制体系在经典计算机发展中起着至关重要的作用,这是毫无疑问的。但面对新型的量子计算,如何建立与之相适应的数制体制,却成为一个疑难问题。本文主要从中国古代以《太玄》为代表的"三性"思想出发,对量子计算建立数制的两难境遇进行了分析,结果指出,量子计算在本质上与经典计算不同的根本差别是量子纠缠性,其刻画的不仅仅是物质不可分别的波粒二象本性,也同样刻画了逻辑不可描述的真假同显本性。这样一来,要建立量子计算数制描述体系,就必然落入这样一种两难境遇:要么借用经典数制体系来模拟量子计算过程的描述,但不可能真正把握量子纠缠性的本性;要么就根本找不到可以描述这种具有"和合性"特点的数制体系。     

PROCESS ECOLOGY: STEPPING STONES TO BIOSEMIOSIS

Many in science are disposed not to take biosemiotics seriously, dismissing it as too anthropomorphic. Furthermore, biosemiotic apologetics are cast in top‐down fashion, thereby adding to widespread skepticism. An effective response might be to approach biosemiotics from the bottom up, but the foundational assumptions that support Enlightenment science make that avenue impossible. Considerations from ecosystem studies reveal, however, that those conventional assumptions, although once possessing great utilitarian value, have come to impede deeper understanding of living systems because they implicitly depict the evolution of the universe backward. Ecological dynamics suggests instead a smaller set of countervailing postulates that allows evolution to play forward and sets the stage for tripartite causalities, signs, and interpreters—the key elements of biosemiosis—to emerge naturally out of the interaction of chance with configurations of autocatalytic processes. Biosemiosis thereby appears as a fully legitimate outgrowth of the new metaphysic and shows promise for becoming the supervenient focus of a deeper perspective on the phenomenon of life.     

Cognitive style modulates conscious but not unconscious thought: Comparing the deliberation-without-attention effect in analytics and wholists

Unconscious thought theory (UTT) suggests that conscious thinking is less effective in complex decision-making than unconscious thinking. However, little research has taken individual differences (e.g., cognitive style) into account. Using an adapted UTT paradigm, the present study compared the performances of individuals with a wholist or an analytic cognitive style in both conscious and unconscious thought conditions. After viewing information regarding four hypothetical phones, participants in the conscious thought condition deliberated for three minutes before rating the phones, while participants in the unconscious thought condition were distracted with a 2-back task for three minutes before rating. The results showed that wholists were equally good at differentiating good and bad phones after conscious or unconscious thought, whereas analytics performed well only when thinking unconsciously. The modulation effect of cognitive style appeared only in conscious thought. Implications for UTT and the understanding of cognitive style are discussed.     

道家人格美到道教“仙格”美的嬗变--《河上公章句》与《想尔注》美学思想综论之一

先秦道家美学人格论转变为魏晋道教“神仙”美学思想，其间最具代表性的文献是《老子河上公章句》和《老子想尔注》，它们在人(仙)格美的内在与外在、凡人仙人人格对比、神仙审美心理、道家道教人格修炼与艺术美之关系等四个方面，展示了道教美学人格思想的嬗变过程，再次证明了先秦道家美学思想与后世道教美学思想之间的亲缘关系，也证明道教美学思想丰富的民族文化底蕴。     

Introduction What aptitudes,values, and behaviors for an already present future?

Abstract

Evolution, in particular demographic growth, and progress in the world of science and technology, has led to deep‐seated transformations on economic, social and political levels. How are we to teach the young to build the 21st century in the most suitable way? What are the values, what are the aptitudes and behaviors which will enable them to flourish as actors on the stage of a changing, complex and uncertain world?     

商鞅治国思想对现代管理学的启示

商鞅是中国历史上著名的政治家与改革家,为后人留下了丰富的治国思想.这些思想,对于现代管理学,也有借鉴意义和启示作用,运用得法,可以拓展我们的思路,有助于我们探讨现代企事业单位管理的理论与实践,提高管理水平.     

Preschoolers’ Thoughts on the Concept of Time

Abstract

This study aimed to examine preschool children’s epistemological views in the context of the concept of time via their drawings of the time machine. The study was conducted with 30 five-year-old children (17 girls and 13 boys) attending state and private preschools in the academic year 2018/2019. The data collection tools used in the study were the Test for Creative Thinking - Drawing Production TCT-DP, Children’s Thoughts on Time Questionnaire (CTTQ) and Children’s Epistemological Views Questionnaire (CEVQ). Of the mixed methods typologies, the fully mixed sequential dominant status-qualitative design was employed. The results obtained from the study indicated that the time machine drawings of almost half the participating children included creative elements and logical thinking products. In addition, 40% of the children’s responses reflected sophisticated epistemological views such as scientific, imaginative/science fiction-based, divergent and eccentric approaches and non-authority figures regarding the concept of time. In conclusion: contrary to Piegatian interpretation, our results show that five-year old children can demonstrate abstract scientific understanding regarding the concept of time and preschoolers’ epistemic approach has a critical role in determining their development of abstract cognitive concepts.