Knowing as being: Psychology, limits to knowledge, and an ethics of solidarity

2020 ◽  
pp. 095935432097870
Author(s):  
Peiwei Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Zen Buddhism ◽  
Philosophical Foundation ◽  
Moral Relevance ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Buddhist Practice ◽  
Science Building ◽  
Critical Science ◽  
Zen Buddhist

Critical epistemological reflection facilitates disciplinary self-reflection, and yet the limitation of this practice needs to examined. This article explores the possibility of a praxis-oriented philosophical foundation for psychology through investigating the limits to knowledge. Integrating insights from critical communicative pragmatist perspectives and Zen Buddhism, this paper outlines what constitutes limits to knowledge and contests the boundary of epistemology, in relation to psychology as a natural science, social science, and critical science. Building upon this deconstruction/reconstruction, Zen Buddhist practice is drawn upon to further illuminate the potential to center psychology through the praxis of knowing as being, which is nontotalizing and always open to uncertainty and fallibility. My key argument is that any notion of epistemology is inadequate when divorced from its intra-connection to being and practice that have inherent ethical and moral relevance. This necessitates deferring philosophizing to a constant and endless practice that upholds an ethics of solidarity.

Zen Buddhism and the Space of Ethics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Y. Park
Keyword(s):  
Zen Buddhism ◽  
Ethical Reasoning ◽  
Buddhist Ethics ◽  
Moral Norms ◽  
Ethical Life ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Ethical Decisions ◽  
The World ◽  
Ethical Agent ◽  
Zen Buddhist

This essay discusses Buddhist ethics from Zen and Huayan Buddhist perspectives. It proposes that Zen Buddhist ethics underlines the importance of the ethical agent’s awareness of the fundamental gap between the reality of the world and the agent’s capacity to fully understand the total reality, and this gap inevitably creates a tension in the ethical agent’s mind. This tension is a positive guideline that demands of the ethical agent a constant and consistent self-reflection when making ethical decisions. Moral norms can offer a contour of our ethical life, but, from the Zen and Huayan perspectives, crucial to ethical reasoning is one’s capacity to be aware of multifaceted causes and conditions that generate an event and the venerability of the ethical agent’s hermeneutic capacity to fully grasp the total realty. Ethics emerges in the space of this tension when the tension is positively channeled through the moral agent’s self-cultivation.

A Marriage of Social Science, Natural Science, and Humanities

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-392
Author(s):  
Anita P. Barbee ◽  
Michael R. Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Natural Science

The pre-history of health psychology in the United Kingdom: From natural science and psychoanalysis to social science, social cognition and beyond

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 472-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Murray
Keyword(s):  
Health Psychology ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Social Science ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

Health psychology formally came of age in the United Kingdom in the 1980s, but it was prefigured by much discussion about challenges to the dominance of biomedicine in healthcare and debates. This articles focuses on what could be termed the pre-history of health psychology in the UK. This was the period in the earlier 20th century when psychological approaches were dominated by psychoanalysis which was followed by behaviourism and then cognitivism. Review of this pre-history provides the backdrop for the rise of health psychology in the UK and also reveals the tensions between the different theoretical perspectives.

scholarly journals Distribution of Elite Students in Vietnam Revealed by National Olympiads

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duy Nghia Pham
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Students ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Red River ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Red River Delta ◽  
North Central ◽  
The North ◽  
Science Test

Vietnamese National Olympiads 2010-2020 has awarded elite students more than 24,000 prizes. Provinces in the Red River Delta and the North Central Coast with their high schools for the gifted led the country in the number of elite students and the proportion of highest achievers. In comparison with social science test subjects, natural science subjects were more characterized by younger students and male students and less represented by ethnic minority students.

scholarly journals The Ecology of Fencing

Africa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Sheridan
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Present Issue ◽  
Climatic And Environmental Change

In the autumn of 2004, a remarkable gathering of 102 scholars took place at St Antony's College, Oxford: they had come for an interdisciplinary symposium on ‘Trees, rain, and politics in Africa: the dynamics and politics of climatic and environmental change’. Symposium papers were grouped into panels that focused on either particular resources (such as trees and water) or particular aspects of social relationships (such as politics and discourses). This format resulted in a series of dialogues between the natural science and social science paradigms, and this first half of the present issue of Africa takes as its theme just one of those interdisciplinary conversations. Taken together, these authors demonstrate how the hybridization of natural science and social science can benefit understandings of the African past, interpretations of the African present and planning for the African future.1

Computer Information Library Clusters

2019 ◽  
pp. 142-147
Author(s):  
Fu Yuhua
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Variation Principle ◽  
Unified Theory ◽  
Milky Way Galaxy ◽  
System Information ◽  
Set Up

Based on creating generalized and hybrid set and library with neutrosophy and quad-stage method, this chapter presents the concept of computer information library clusters (CILC). There are various ways and means to form CILC. For example, CILC can be considered as the “total-library” and consists of several “sub-libraries.” As another example, in CILC, a total-library can be set up, and a number of sub-libraries are side by side with the total-library. Specially, for CILC, the operation functions can be added; for example, according to natural science computer information library clusters (natural science CILC), and applying variation principle of library (or sub-library), partial and temporary unified theory of natural science so far with different degrees can be established. Referring to the concept of natural science CILC, the concepts of social science CILC, natural science and social science CILC, and the like can be presented. While referring to the concept of computer information library clusters, the concepts of computer and non-computer information library clusters, earth information library clusters, solar system information library clusters, Milky Way galaxy information library clusters, universe information library clusters, and the like can be presented.

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