From Divine Discourse to Interpretations of the
Classics
Research Article
1. From
Cultural Renaissance to Cultural Reconstruction: Transition and Transformation
of the Textbooks Writing of “History of Chinese Culture” for Junior High
Schools in Postwar Taiwan
Long-Hsin
Liu (Associate Professor, Department of History, Soochow University)
Introduction
Jing-Jong
Luh (Professor, Graduation Institute of Philosophy, National Central University)
Special Issue Article
2. Spirit
and Dialectics: The Effective History of Reformation to Classical European
Continental Philosophy
Jing-Jong
Luh (Professor, Graduation Institute of Philosophy, National Central University)
3. On
the Metaphor and Figuring of Confessions: the Religious Dimension in Paul
Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics
Cristal
Huang (Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Soochow University)
4. On
the Reasons for Confucianism to Express Its Thoughts with the “Language Features
of Moral Types”: An Analysis from the Reflection of “Scientific Knowledge” by
Mr. Mou Zongsan
Hsin-Er
Huang (Professor, Center for General Education, Chung Yuan Christian University)
5. The
Philosophical Implications of the “Yin-Xun” in the Huai-Nan-Zi
Ming-Chao
Lin (Professor, Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)
6. The
Influence of Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa
on Zhiyi’s Interpretation of Chan
Wei-Hung
Yen (Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Tunghai University)
7. Lê
Quý Đôn’s Thought of Sympathy and the Concerned Integration of Three Teachings
Wei-Chieh
Lin (Research Fellow, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia
Sinica)
Research Note
8. “The
Absolute” Eliminating all Contradictions: Cusanus’s View of God in Of Learned
Ignorance
Yun-Ping
Sun (Professor, Graduation Institute of Philosophy, National Central
University)
Research Article
1. From
Cultural Renaissance to Cultural Reconstruction: Transition and Transformation
of the Textbooks Writing of “History of Chinese Culture” for Junior High
Schools in Postwar Taiwan
Long-Hsin
Liu (Associate Professor, Department of History, Soochow University)
The emergence of textbook is an epochal event in modern China. The
information conveyed in textbook map out the knowledge structure of every generation.
The Chinese Cultural History
textbook, first issued in 1965 and ceased publication in 2007, not only shaped
the concept of culture and history of Taiwanese teenagers, but also reflected
identity within different generations. In this article I compare various
versions of Chinese Cultural History,
analyze their strategy of compilation and writing; and interpret the
interaction between textbook content, political ideology, and national
education policy. I especially highlight the interaction between writing
strategies of textbooks and transformation of knowledge structure, underscore
the academic research trend and its feedback toward popular education. We may
find, at last, that this textbook miniature the changing idea of “culture” from
Chinese Cultural Renaissance before the lift of Marshal Law to reshaping
cultural identity which rooted in Taiwan.
Keywords:
Chinese Cultural History, Textbook, Chinese Cultural Renaissance, Historical
Thinking, Writing Strategy
Special Issue Article
Spirit and Dialectics: The Effective History of
Reformation to Classical European Continental Philosophy
Jing-Jong
Luh (Professor, Graduation Institute of Philosophy, National Central University)
In the course of the quingentenary of the Reformation, this article
will take the path of grand narration from the perspective of the world view to
present the effective history of the Reformation to the European continental philosophy,
that is, under the dual context of the Western cultural history and the history
of philosophy it shall reveal at first this e process from Eckhart to the
Reformation as the genesis of the cultural movement of the German spirit and
the core of its development context: a paradigm shift of theological and
philosophical thinking from being to spirit, or concerning the basic presupposition
of philosophy, from the systematic philosophy of ἀρχή to the holistic-systemic
philosophy. It will indicate the two unique German theological and
philosophical thinking, i.e. dialectics and hermeneutics as clues. Dialectics
as the main theme of this paper shall be displayed, that is, the genesis and
development of the central way of thinking of classical German philosophy will
be demonstrated as specialization of the spiritparadigm into the philosophy of
subjectivity and the construction of its way of thinking in formation of the
dialectics. In the intellectual-historical progress from the movement of German
spirit to the classical German philosophy, the trialectical system of God,
human and world as spiritual structure originating from the immanent trinity of
German mysticism plays the continuing but also transforming framework of world
view.
Keywords:
Mysticism, Reformation, European Continental Philosophy, Spirit, Dialectics
On the Metaphor and Figuring of Confessions: the
Religious Dimension in Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics
Cristal
Huang (Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Soochow University)
The paper focuses on Paul Ricoeur’s philosophy. Through his analysis
on Augustine’s concept of time, Ricoeur introduces the concept of confession,
in order to integrate his own idea on the threefold mimesis. Ricoeur develops
the total activity of confession in order to develop how to use the idea of
time to present that, the confessional metaphor is the main core of the
meaning. The paper wants to discuss the relation between confession and the
figuring. We wish to apply Ricoeur’s thought on the Catholic religious
ceremony, language and our attitude on how to use philosophy to be a
transformation. Through philosophy, we may obtain certain relation between self
and the Sacred. Through Ricoeur’s discussion, the paper wishes to provide
contemporary philosophy as religious dimension, to settle the total activity of
confession as main object, through metaphor and figure, we provide this
religious dimension. We wish to provide the new perspective from Ricoeur’s idea
as one new angle for the research.
Keywords:
Ricoeur, Confession, Mimesis, Figure, Metaphor
On the Reasons for Confucianism to Express Its
Thoughts with the “Language Features of Moral Types”: An Analysis from the
Reflection of “Scientific Knowledge” by Mr. Mou Zongsan
Hsin-Er
Huang (Professor, Center for General Education, Chung Yuan Christian University)
Mr. Mou Zongsan’s method of reflection on scientific knowledge is based
on the “intelligence” of “the difference between Eastern and Western attributes”.
He believes that Confucianism discusses “intellectuality(Zhì)” as the “type of
unity of benevolence and intelligence”, while the “intellectuality” of
scientific knowledge is unrelated with “benevolence” because it is a “pure knowledge”.
The scientific way of thinking, their method will separate the thinker himself
from the object which he observing. The article will through the formation of
the “hieroglyphic character of Tian” of Confucian first concept, go back to the
time before “the appearance of Confucianism and science”. Also, through the way
of thinking how was “the first core concept of Chinese philosophy” created, we
will point out why the expression system of Confucian presenting the “language
features of moral types”.
Keywords:
Confucianism and Science, Tian, Moral Language, Confucian Methodology
The Philosophical Implications of the “Yin-Xun” in the
Huai-Nan-Zi
Ming-Chao
Lin (Professor, Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)
The concept of “yin-xun” (following, 因循) is a great concern in the employment
of Dao for the pre-Qin Daoists, and therefore there is an abundant description
about it in Huai-Nan-Zi, as we know,
which is an important collection of pre-Qin Daoism. The article tries first to
discuss the possible explanations of “yin-xun” in Huai-Nan-Zi, and then we can find that there are at least three
dimensions of it to discuss. First, “yinxun” means to get the greatest
political efficiency by making good use of the characteristics and conditions;
the former especially points to the official and the ruled people’s temperament
and their likes and dislikes. The latter includes the situations of time,
space, talent, etc, and the talent is particularly very important. Second,
“yin-xun” is the main principle of ruling in the condition of future and tide,
so the ruler has to adjust and react to the situations with good flexibility.
At last, the third aspect is about one’s cultivation of “keep (ing) the nature
and put (ting) away the wisdom,” which is much related to the political
behaviors we mentioned above.
Keywords:
Huai-Nan-Zi, Yin-Xun (Following),
Self-Cultivation, Ruling a Country, Politics
The Influence of Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa
on Zhiyi’s Interpretation of Chan
Wei-Hung
Yen (Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Tunghai University)
This paper delved into the influence of Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa (hereafter abbreviated as MPPU) on Zhiyi’s interpretation of Chan
as well as the philosophical implication within through the investigation of
the citation of MPPU in his
interpretation of Chan.
This paper points out that the influence of MPPU on the Zhiyi’s interpretation of Chan can be induced into
three points: 1. The early stage whereby Zhiyi selectively adopted the theories
of meditation of the Early, Abhidharmic and Early Mahāyāna Buddhism from MPPU, and then systematically
constituted his interpretation of Chan. 2. The doctrine of the contemplation of
mind (kuan-hsin) from Zhiyi’s
interpretation of Chan, which can be traced back to MPPU, and from that he developed the Perfect Sudden Teaching (Yuan-Tun-Chih-Kuan). As regards, MPPU did influenced the Chan interpretation,
the doctrine of the contemplation of the mind and even the Perfect Sudden
Teachings of Zhiyi 3. Although the works of the middle and late stages of Zhiyi
did not adopted from MPPU as the
ground of his interpretation of Chan, and also even more valued on other
Mahāyāna texts. But if consider the model shown as the early stage, the middle
and late stages of Zhiyi’s interpretation has never been divorced from this
kind of pattern. Accordingly, MPPU
did play an important role in Zhiyi’s Chan interpretation.
Keywords:
Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa, Zhiyi,
Tien-tai, Contemplation
Lê Quý Đôn’s Thought of Sympathy and the Concerned
Integration of Three Teachings
Wei-Chieh
Lin (Research Fellow, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia
Sinica)
This article will to deal with Vietnamese Confucian scholar Lê Quý Đôn’s
thought of sympathy in order to give a picture of the concerned integration of
Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism. According to Lê, the presentation of
sympathy can be divided into four different forms, namely “the
homogeneous activity of sympathy” between presentations of same li and of same qi, and “the heterogeneous activity of sympathy” between liqi and between different qi. The first homogeneous form of
sympathy is a communication of Dao
and heart/mind. The second homogeneous form, to which Lê pay the most
attention, contains not only the mutual sympathy between cosmic qi and human qi, but also the punishment and retribution of human world from
Gods and Buddha, even that the skeleton of ancestors can put descendants under
their protection. The third activity, which is seen as heterogeneous, contains
the sympathy between heart/mind and ghost/god, and between spirit and body. The
fourth heterogeneous form means the mutual promotion and restraint between Ying and Yang or among the five elements. Lê amends Zhu Xi’s metaphysics
about relationship of li-qi and views
qi as the guiding and dominant role
of our cosmos.
Keywords:
li and qi, Sympathy, Homogeneous Sympathy, Heterogeneous Sympathy
Research Note
“The Absolute” Eliminating all Contradictions: Cusanus’s
View of God in Of Learned Ignorance
Yun-Ping
Sun (Professor, Graduation Institute of Philosophy, National Central University)
Cusanus (Nicholas of Cusa, 1401-1464) investigates the idea of “God”
through the boundary of human reason in Of
Learned Ignorance (De docta ignorantis,
1440). The most central statements concerning “God” lie in the Volume 1 of the
book. Cusanus regards God as “the Absolute” with whom there is nothing can be
compared. Cusanus takes an epistemological approach to explicate that knowledge
results from comparison between the same and the different, and that
comparability comes from concrete differences in quantity or quality. Yet these
differences, opposites, and contradictions will disappear in “the Absolute”,
for “the Absolute” will remove all conflicts and contradictions. On the one
hand, as “the Absolute” God cannot be compared with in the way of concrete
entities. On the other hand, God is beyond our ken. All opposites within God
will be eliminated; not only the determination of quantity or quality, but even
the contrary between existence and non-existence cannot hold. Cusanus’s
accounts exceed logics and cannot be analyzed by logics; such total
indistinguishability manifests the incomprehensibility of God. This essay tries
to expound Cusanus’s view of God that is beyond logical and reasonable
thinking.
Keywords:
Cusanus, Difference and Comparison, the Absolute, Coincidence of Opposites,
Mysticism
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