Re-charting global ethics

Migrations driven by ethnic, religious, and other forms of social conflict have been common in the past quarter-century, and have in Africa led many to seek refuge and to expect hospitality abroad. This leads to a concern for pluralist ethics, for many receiving refuge abroad expect that they will be able to live by their thoughts and beliefs, creating enclaves of cultural difference. But difference exists in all communities: cultural homogeneity does not exist except in the conservative imagination. Nevertheless, a sameness – the sameness of the value of every person – remains within this plurality. The sameness is conceived in distinct ways in the Natural Law tradition that yields liberalism, in the Golden Rule, in Kant's categorical imperative, and in the Luo culture of Eastern Africa. The Luo precept Luoro remb dhano (‘restraint from letting human blood’) is compared with these other ethical cosmopolitan wellsprings in this essay.     

谶纬“河图”、“洛书”中神话意象诠释

谶纬“河图”、“洛书”神话,是在原始思维的集体记忆的基础上,发挥玄想,以象立意.根据受众的不同,可以将其分为政治、民生两类.从诠释发生的角度、诠释方式和诠释功能而言,谶纬“河图”、“洛书”与《周易》有异曲同工之妙.谶纬“河图”、“洛书”中的神话意象和意境,看似为非理性的构思,实为理性智慧的阐发,它阐释的重点是儒家仁政学说和民本思想,展现了汉儒的普世精神和政治诉求.     

蔡元定对河图洛书的区分——兼论蔡氏父子的范数之学

蔡元定主张"河十洛九"、"河先洛后",与刘牧的"河九洛十"、"河洛同出"说相反。蔡元定强调河图与洛书的区分,与朱熹的"虚中为易、实中为范"说企图融合河图、洛书也不同。其目的是加强十数图与《周易》八卦的关联,九数图与《洪范》九畴的关联,进而将《洪范》纳入易学系统。其子蔡沈的《洪范皇极》以《周易》为象学,对应河图,以《洪范》为数学,对应洛书,正是这一目的的体现。这一区分是对刘牧河图、洛书说的发展,蔡氏父子由此构建了其范数之学。     

胡煦易学的河图洛书观

胡煦是清初著名易学家,治易兼采汉宋,融合象数与义理,提出了诸多独到的见解。胡煦认为《周易》为传道之书,阐述天人合一之旨,而欲明周易所传之道,必须从研究河图、洛书开始。他认为河图、洛书同为伏羲画卦之资,反对以洛书为作《范》之具的观点。关于河图、洛书的关系,胡煦提出“河图合而洛书分,河图先天洛书后天”,“图为先天是流行之气,书为后天是对待之形”,批评先天对待后天流行的观点。基于河图先天的看法,胡煦提出“先天河图无拆法”,批评拆补之说,提出羲图文卦的观点。     

综参古《易》:《太玄》的易学渊源

沿着班固"经莫大于《易》,故作《太玄》"的思路,后人就会寻求《太玄》与《周易》的对应关系,结果却发现二者有诸多不合。以此回溯汉代《易》经存在的实际情况:三《易》并存、《周易》尚未定型,说明《太玄》不仅仅是模仿《周易》,而是综合参照了当时存在的古《易》。本文通过分析《太玄》与《连山》、《河图》、《洛书》的具体关系,揭示《说卦》是《太玄》与古《易》联结的纽带,明晰三《易》发展的实际线索。     

朱熹对邵雍先天象数学的继承和发展

朱熹从探究《易》之本义的角度,继承和发展了邵雍的先天象数学,提出了《周易》本来是卜筮之书的思想,主张“三圣易”和经传相分,探析了河图、洛书及其关系,进而对伏羲画卦的内在机制以及大衍之数五十的来源做了阐释,从而不仅为象数易学增添了新内容,而且为学人提供了一种合理的解《易》方法。     

The Fibonacci Life‐Chart Method (FLCM) as a foundation for Carl Jung's theory of synchronicity

Since the scientific method requires events to be subject to controlled examination it would seem that synchronicities are not scientifically investigable. Jung speculated that because these incredible events are like the random sparks of a firefly they cannot be pinned down. However, doubting Jung's doubts, the author provides a possible method of elucidating these seemingly random and elusive events. The author draws on a new method, designated the Fibonacci Life‐Chart Method (FLCM), which categorizes phase transitions and Phi fractal scaling in human development based on the occurrence of Fibonacci numbers in biological cell division and self‐organizing systems. The FLCM offers an orientation towards psychological experience that may have relevance to Jung's theory of synchronicity in which connections are deemed to be intrinsically meaningful rather than demonstrable consequences of cause and effect. In such a model synchronistic events can be seen to be, as the self‐organizing system enlarges, manifestations of self‐organized critical moments and Phi fractal scaling. Recommendations for future studies include testing the results of the FLCM using case reports of synchronistic and spiritual experiences.     

"河图""洛书"与洛邑之营建及神道设教——关于"河图""洛书"的新揣测

"河图"、"洛书"最早很可能是周公决定营建洛邑的地图及占卜卜辞.而其后来不断被神化则是统治阶级为了神道设教、愚民以治的需要.     

试论储华谷《周易参同契》注中的道教易学思想

储华谷<周易参同契>注运用<周易>的卦爻象和"河洛之说"来解释道教内丹修炼的原理,提出了"药之与物,二八河图.五贼运火,皇极洛书.法象羲<易>,按爻摘符"的道教易学思想;认为<易>的"河洛之说"及"卦爻之象"揭示了天、地、人三才之道,这对于道教内丹修炼来说,具有重要的指导意义;此注用<周易>"河图"、"洛书"等理论,对道教内丹学中最重要的药物、鼎炉、火候等问题进行了说明,强调内丹术要循天地自然之道而行,法天地人三才之道才可以论还丹,并以<易>理来统摄天、地、人三才之道,从而增强了道教内丹术的理论性和系统性,为将道教内丹术转为道教内丹学做出了贡献.     

试论江永河洛变先后天八卦图式思想

江永为清朝杰出的经学家、天文学家、音韵学家。他终生潜心于教学与著述,为探索科学与实学做出了鲜明的表率。在易学上则比较注重对河图、洛书的阐发。江永主张河图、洛书衍生先、后天八卦。为论证自己的观点,江永运用了"河图中宫五、十"生成万物的思想。他认为河图之四方、八个数字皆由五、十所生成。只要我们让河图横列的乾九、兑四、离三、震八站立起来排列在左边,让河图纵列的巽二、坎七、艮六、坤一排列在右边,即可以得到先天八卦图。接着,把河图五行与八卦五行相对应,在河图五行方位中引入先天八卦五行,则后天八卦图跃然纸上。