scholarly journals 反思現代文明的脆弱——回應薩斯教授

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
Kai Man KWAN
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Gross National Product ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Good Society ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Human Happiness ◽  
Digital Commons ◽  
The Face

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract in English only.In my response to Prof. Sass, I first elaborate some points on which we agree. For example, I find the five crises of modern civilization discussed by Prof. Sass to be quite real, and I believe that this points to the fragility of modern civilization. I then critique the Enlightenment ideology of progress and argue that we need to prepare for the possibility of a cultural decline. I also agree with Prof. Sass’s emphasis on both the human potential for creativity and the human capacity for self-destruction. This contradicts liberal optimism about human nature and raises questions about our internal and spiritual resources. I support Prof. Sass’s critique of modern society’s obsession with GNP (Gross National Product) and agree that the concept of a GHP (Goss Happiness Product) is a better criterion for a good society. However, I believe that we must overcome even the vestiges of hedonism by affirming the intrinsic value of an objective moral order that transcends human happiness. In the end, in the face of the possibilities of disasters and the collapse of modern civilization, we need to return to our basic communities, such as family, and emphasize the cultivation of virtue.DOWNLOAD HISTORY | This article has been downloaded 7 times in Digital Commons before migrating into this platform.

scholarly journals Modern Approaches and Methods in Teaching English

2020 ◽  
pp. 63-66
Author(s):  
Marina Anatolevna Sinovats
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Traditional Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
The Face ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Main Components

Teaching a foreign language includes two main components: to impart and to receive information. In practice, the teacher tries his best to convey the knowledge that he has. The use of innovative methods in educational institutions expands the rights and opportunities of both students and teachers. Innovative technologies contribute to the development of the country's human potential. With a number of educational opportunities available to students of the modern generation, new trends that have completely changed the face of the traditional education system have emerged. Recent trends in the methodology reflect the vitally important role of the education sector as a whole, with its internalization of the educational process, emphasis on quality, and increased use of new technologies. Theory and methods are constantly being developed in the field of ELT. The article presents well-known trends in ELT that have been practically used all over the world recently. New trends in foreign language teaching are becoming known as GTM, a communicative method.

scholarly journals Исторический процесс в свете христианской антропологии Ф. М. Достоевского

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Nikolaievitch Tarassov
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Field Of View ◽  
Christian Realism ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Moral World ◽  
The Law ◽  
The One

Based on the fundamental concepts of the "mystery of man" and Christian realism, the "law of the Ego" and the "law of love" for Dostoevsky's creative consciousness, the article examines the one-sidedness of biologizing and socializing concepts of human nature since the Enlightenment and their connection with entropic processes in the spiritual and moral world of people and declining trends in the course of history. It is shown how the spiritual laws of life, which are leaving the field of view of rationalistic and pragmatic consciousness, transform social-progressive design and planning, and introduce nihilistic elements into them. It is emphasized that the methodology of Christian realism is universal, that it connects the "mystery of man" with the mystery of history, and becomes one of the main principles for assessing the hierarchy of values in various ideological and social systems.

scholarly journals 哲學家的冒險——讀〈王鳳儀倫理療病闡析〉

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-38
Author(s):  
Wei CHENG
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Medical Practices ◽  
Disease Therapy ◽  
Digital Commons

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract in English only.It remains unclear whether forms of disease therapy that rely solely on ethics or other aspects of human nature can be effective. Claims have been made throughout history for the efficacy of ethics-based medical practices, such as religious treatments. However, it is necessary to scientifically test the claim that such treatments have curative effects. It would be too hasty to accept such a conclusion without sufficient investigation. Indeed, such unthinking acceptance would entirely contradict Confucian values.DOWNLOAD HISTORY | This article has been downloaded 38 times in Digital Commons before migrating into this platform.

Beyond Practicalism

Utopophobia ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 304-315
Author(s):  
David Estlund
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Intellectual Work ◽  
Math And Science ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Mathematics

This chapter argues against “practicalism.” It shows that it is very plausible that some things must be of intrinsic value, that is, apart from what they can be used to produce. A narrower practicalism might hold that intellectual work in particular is never of intrinsic value, and so is worthless unless it is of practical value. The chapter contends that this flies in the face of some robust views about the value of some intellectual work in science and mathematics. This leaves two problems of special interest here: first, so far, even if that point makes general intellectual practicalism appear implausible, it has no tendency to show that nonpractical philosophy, or in particular political philosophy, might be of intrinsic value. They might lack whatever it is about nonpractical yet important math and science that makes them important. This leads to the second problem, which is that even if those examples tend to refute practicalism, they do not yet provide any account of what is valuable about them.

The Death of God

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Michalski
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Gospel Of Matthew ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Death Of God ◽  
New Beginning ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Cross

This chapter turns to Plato's Phaedo as well as the Gospel of Matthew: two narratives about death, and two visions of human nature. Christ's cry on the cross, as told by Matthew, gives voice to an understanding of human life that is radically different from that of Socrates. For Phaedo's Socrates, the truly important things in life are ideas: the eternal order of the world, the understanding of which leads to unperturbed peace and serenity in the face of death. The Gospel is the complete opposite: it testifies to the incurable presence of the Unknown in every moment of life, a presence that rips apart every human certainty built on what is known, that disturbs all peace, all serenity—that severs the continuity of time, opening every moment of our lives to nothingness, thereby inscribing within them the possibility of an abrupt end and the chance at a new beginning.

Care

2018 ◽  
pp. 280-294
Author(s):  
Neema Parvini
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
King Lear ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
Titus Andronicus ◽  
State Of Nature ◽  
Henry Vi

This chapter assesses the extent to which harm is caused in Shakespeare’s plays when the moral order breaks down by focusing on plays in which the dramatis personae revert to the Hobbesian state of nature and unspeakable cruelty: Titus Andronicus, 3 Henry VI, Richard III, and King Lear. In such moments Shakespeare seems to invoke the image of the tiger, which he only uses fifteen times in all his works. In the constrained or tragic vison (Thomas Sowell), when there are no institutions with which to reinforce the morals that bind people together (authority, loyalty, fairness, sanctity), the worst aspects of humanity – as embodied in the tiger – are granted their fullest expression. However, in Shakespeare’s version of this vision, human nature provides the seeds of its own rebirth.

scholarly journals Virtue or Vice? Trauma Reflected in Mo Yan’s Frog

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-189
Author(s):  
Jinghui Wang
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mo Yan ◽  
Epistolary Novel ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Ancient Chinese

The preoccupation with human nature is deeply rooted in literature. This paper starts from the ancient Chinese rudimentary understanding of human nature, then passes through Mo Yan’s Frog, an epistolary novel which covers the 30-year history of the Chinese population control policy through the description of an obstetrician in quest of her own human nature, and ends with her mediation and effort to retrieve goodness in the face of state will. Mo Yan, as well as many other Chinese people, does not deny that the onechild family policy had been laid down with a good intention to promote the general welfare of all citizens in China. But through a detailed reading of the novel Frog, it is argued that this policy might be a legalized illegality, which results in the schizophrenia of the main character out of the dilemma of justifying her deeds as virtue or vice. It is suggested that the experience of the female character in the novel, as well as in the contemporary Chinese society, should be investigated allegorically, and it reveals a universal issue about the complexity of human nature, for in a certain sense, one may start aiming to be Mother Theresa, but end in finding himself or herself merely a devoted clownlike servant of the state will.

The Aesthetics of Disaster: Blok, Messina, and the Decadent Sublime

Slavic Review ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 569-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenifer Presto
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Lisbon Earthquake ◽  
The Face ◽  
Aleksandr Blok ◽  
Luca Signorelli ◽  
European Civilization

In this article, Jenifer Presto argues that the 1908 Messina-Reggio Calabria earthquake had an impact on Aleksandr Blok no less significant than that which the 1755 Lisbon earthquake had on writers of the Enlightenment and proceeds to demonstrate how it shaped Blok's aesthetics of catastrophe. This aesthetics can best be termed the “decadent sublime, ” an inversion of the Kantian dynamic sublime with its emphasis on bourgeois optimism. Following Immanuel Kant, Blok acknowledges the fear and attraction that nature's forces can inspire; however, unlike Kant, he insists that modern man remains powerless in the face of nature, owing to his decadence—a decadence endemic to European civilization. The decadent sublime is manifested in a host of Blok's writings, ranging from “The Elements and Culture” to Lightning Flashes of Art and The Scythians; it is intensely visual and is indebted to images of ruin by artists such as Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Luca Signorelli.

Morality, Nature, and Esotericism in Leo Strauss's Persecution and the Art of Writing

2002 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Kochin
Keyword(s):  
Moral Law ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Moral Teaching ◽  
The Face ◽  
Historical Investigation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Many

Strauss's historical investigation of the use of exoteric writing in Farabi, Maimonides, Halevi, and Spinoza, is in fact his history of the philosophers' exoteric accommodations to the permanent difference in human natures, the difference between the many who require a categorical moral teaching and the few who are capable of ordering their own lives in the face of the hypothetical status of all moral commands. The men of the Enlightenment aspired to render the moral law superfluous for all by constructing a machinery of government powerful enough to compel all to live justly. Strauss critiques this aspiration by leading his reader to face the permanency of the difference between the few and the many. Strauss uses historical scholarship to force the reader to rethink the possibility of contemplation of the eternal or permanent, the possibility that the Enlightenment's historicist epigones have sought to foreclose.

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