Commentary: Promising answers,and the next generation of questions

The papers in this special issue will be immensely valuable in taking forward the agenda of research, practice and theory construction in the field of offender rehabilitation. Some have consolidated existing knowledge in specific areas and analysed its potential implications. Others have identified the key points at issue in the debate between different models of the rehabilitation process. Still others have explored or developed a number of relatively neglected matters, including the delivery of treatment within a coercive framework; the role of labelling in change and desistance processes; the importance of the therapeutic alliance in offence-focused work; and reconceptualisation of the responsivity principle within the framework of therapeutic jurisprudence. The present paper extracts some further principal themes from the spectrum of issues raised. Discussion of these is grouped under the four headings of theory construction, evidence accumulation, practical implementation, and ethical and political dimensions.     

Externalities in comparative guise

For those working with social science presumptions, ethical principles can seem to come out of nowhere. This paper wonders whether they operate like the positive externalities Callon wishes to derive from economists. In exploring the question, it is forced to consider different models of internal and external positioning. It does this through taking up two manifestations of the technological economy concerned with information management, following examples drawn from Callon's own work (competitive patenting and ethical deliberations on biotechnology).     

回归伦理学——翻译伦理研究的未来之路

自贝尔曼以来,翻译伦理成为翻译理论研究领域的一个重要学派,但短暂的繁荣之后,翻译伦理研究进入了相对的低谷期,近年未能出现重大突破和新的理论建树。分析现有的主流翻译伦理研究与思想,可以发现它们面临困境的主要原因是研究对象、内涵与方法缺乏统一性,各研究未形成合力。作为伦理学的特殊分支,翻译伦理可以从伦理学学科发展、架构、概念和研究方法中汲取营养,构建翻译伦理研究的整体框架,即从元翻译伦理、规范翻译伦理和美德翻译伦理三个方面描述翻译伦理研究的全貌,确定翻译伦理研究的对象、内涵和逻辑方法。     

亚里士多德“德性伦理学”的理解问题——基于孟子哲学立场的一种比较视野及其现代启示

亚里士多德的"德性伦理学"强调道德行为者的品质特征一面.近年来,人们在反省西方近现代"规范伦理学"一些流弊时,提出要重新推介亚氏伦理学的价值.本文指出,亚氏的"德性论"与种种后起的"规范说"固然论题各异,但其中又显现着理路上的脉络贯通之处,这就是长期左右着西方伦理学研究方法的那条普遍主义形式化的认识路线.为对亚氏理论的实质有一个较准确的判断,文中以孟子的哲学立场为据,分三个层次对两种"德性"观的不同特点做了分析.进而认为,在"德性"问题上亚氏和孟子各自持有的"理论旨趣"或"实践感"值得人们深思;对亚氏伦理学及其对西方人感悟道德的方式所具的深刻影响,更有必要引发一种清醒认识.     

'The Lady Doth Protest Too Much' Kosovo, and the Turn to Ethics in International Law

Most international lawyers approved of the 1999 bombing of Serbia by the members of the North Atlantic alliance. But most of them also felt that it was not compatible with a strict reading of the UN Charter. The article describes the argumentative techniques through which international lawyers tried to accommodate their moral intuitions with their professional competence. The urge to achieve this, the article argues, arose from a general turn to ethics in the profession that has been evident since the end of the Cold War. This has often involved a shallow and dangerous moralisation which, if generalised, transforms international law into an uncritical instrument for the foreign policy choices of those whom power and privilege has put into decision-making positions.     

印度的海洋战略及印美在印度洋的合作与矛盾

作为主要的印度洋国家,印度长期以来寻求一项确保自身安全和经济利益的大国海洋战略,它体现了印度立足南亚、面向印度洋、争做世界大国的战略图谋。冷战结束以来,特别是随着印度综合国力的发展以及追寻其“大国梦”的步骤加快,印度对印度洋的安全需求持续增大,将确保海洋战略利益、特别是保证印度洋海上石油通道的安全视为保护其基本国家战略利益的头等大事。鉴于印度洋对印度和美国的重要战略意义,印度在实施其海洋战略过程中既会与美国保持合作,同时也可能引发相互间的利益冲突。     

公共管理伦理学：伦理研究的一个新领域

在人类历史上,很早就有了伦理学这门学科,但是,公共管理伦理学的建立对于伦理学发展史有着转折的意义,他把伦理学转化为一门从事制度设计和制度安排的科学,即致力于道德的制度和道德的治理模式的设计和安排。公共管理伦理学既是揭示人类走向伦理社会必然性的科学,也是关于公共管理者职业伦理规定的理论。从学科发展的角度看,公共管理伦理学是一般伦理学的一门分支学科,同时,又是伦理学发展的一种新的形态。     

王尔德与纳博科夫的审美性伦理观比较

近年来,随着对后现代主义颠覆性的讨论的深入,审美与伦理观的关系正逐渐成为研究者们关注的热点。王尔德与纳博科夫作为将现代伦理生活审美化的典型作家,他们的创作时期前后相接,大约跨越了整个现代主义文学时代,反映了现代审美性伦理观的产生与发展,也透露出伦理生活审美化的困境与突围。     

北冰洋通航与中国图们江出海战略探讨

1938年日苏张谷峰战役后封锁了图们江,图们江辉煌的航运消失了。吉林省境内水系发达,但却因丢失了港口,阻碍了吉林经济的发展。航空运输成本太高,东北的铁路运输因受山海关地理位置的限制,致使吉林省的物资运送能力受到限制。海河运输是最廉价、最方便的形式,倘若吉林省恢复到以前沿海省份,便利的交通即可带动吉林经济飞速发展。因此,建议在东北地区开凿运河,迎接北冰洋航运时代的到来。北冰洋变暖为全面通航带来了可能性。如果北极航道全部开通,连接大西洋和太平洋的航线将缩短,而东北亚地区恰好是关键的轴心位置。北冰洋如全部通航,我国图们江流域的珲春将取得与新加坡同等重要的地位。因此,将我国珲春打造成国际航运中心迫在眉睫。建议在东北地区,开凿运河,形成"东北借助运河间接出海战略"。届时可再现图们江航运的辉煌。     

Otherwise than Hospitality: A Disputation on the Relation of Ethics to Law and Politics

At a time of unprecedented migration and social displacement, following a century ravaged by war and hegemonic shift, the question of hospitality presents itself with unparalleled urgency. Taking his cue from Immanuel Kant’s cosmopolitics, Jacques Derrida addressed this question by deliberating on the nature of the political obligation to the other person. Invoking the work of Emmanuel Levinas, this demand is first of all ethical, and unconditional. But Derrida was also acutely aware of the residual violence of the hospitable gesture, which always takes place in a scene of power. The resultant aporias at the heart of hospitality provoked debate between the two authors at the 2007 Critical Legal Conference, and this paper seeks to elucidate and elaborate on this encounter. At stake are the matters of the potential political forms of hospitality, whether it should always been striven for and, ultimately, how one can conceptually reconcile its ethics with its violence.