Daisaku Ikeda’s philosophy of peace,education proposals,and Soka education: convergences and divergences in peace education

In this article, the authors introduce and explicate Daisaku Ikeda’s contributions to peace education. Ikeda is a Buddhist leader, peacebuilder, school founder, and prolific author whose six decades of contributions to peace education have had a global impact in practice but have remained unexamined in the extant, particularly Anglophone, literature. Using excerpts and bilingual discourse analysis of the Ikeda corpus, the authors focus on five aspects to trace the past, present, and future of Ikeda’s contributions to peace education: first, they trace the biographical roots of Ikeda’s contributions to his early educational experiences and encounter with Josei Toda (1900–1958). Second, they outline the Nichiren Buddhist philosophy informing Ikeda’s approach to peace education. Third, they explicate in the context of peace and peace education Ikeda’s concept of value-creating, or Soka education (soka kyoiku) relative to value-creating pedagogy (soka kyoikugaku) theorized by Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (1871–1944). In light of this relation, they also trace the origin of the Soka Gakkai International, of which Ikeda is founding president. Fifth, they clarify Ikeda’s educational proposals made explicitly under the label of ‘peace education,’ namely, cultural exchange, a United Nations for Education, and education for disarmament and human rights (including anti-bullying, sustainability, and global citizenship). The authors conclude that Ikeda’s perspectives, proposals, and practices of Soka education and ‘peace education’ can be viewed as a tripartite ontological model of a process of becoming, moving from inner transformation by means of dialogue to global citizenship.     

The first initiatives

The Greek election of May 2012 failed to produce a government, resulting in repeat elections six weeks later. This shock outcome was a symptom of a broader delegitimation of the national political system. Over the past decade Eurobarometer data show a much more extensive loss of confidence in political institutions in Greece than in the European Union as a whole. In a first phase, rising political discontent was managed within the traditional political framework through alternation in power between the two major parties. In contrast, the second phase, following the outbreak of the Greek sovereign debt crisis, led to the dramatic fragmentation of the party system and changed the mode of government formation. This process is not reversible and entails serious democratic dangers.     

论英语语言学研究的多维视角

英语语言学研究在新的世纪不再是单纯的语言基础研究,应该本着开放的视野,更加注重研究的深度以及与其他学科连接的广度,并应随着学术研究的跨学科发展趋势,拓宽英语语言学的研究视角.英语语言学研究多维视角的提出有其必要性、合理性及可行性.外语工作者应不断深化哲学视角、文化学视角及政治学视角研究,推动英语语言学研究在新时期和新阶段的进一步发展.     

Heir, Celebrity, Martyr, Monster: Legal and Political Legitimacy in Shakespeare and Beyond

The seventeenth century placed Western political thought on a path increasingly concerned with ascertaining the legitimacy of a determinate individual, parliamentary or popular sovereign. As early as Shakespeare, however, a parallel literary tradition serves not to systematise, but to problematise the discourses used to assert the legitimacy with which control over law and government is exercised. This article examines discourses of legal and political legitimacy spawned in early modernity. It is argued that basic notions of ‘right’, ‘duty’, ‘justice’ and ‘power’ (corresponding, in their more vivid manifestations, to categories of ‘heir’, ‘celebrity’, ‘martyr’ and ‘monster’) combine in discrete, but always encumbered ways, to generate a variety of legitimating discourses. Whilst transcendentalist versions of those discourses begin to wane, their secular analogues acquire steadily greater force. In addition to the Shakespearean histories, works of John Milton, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Friedrich Schiller and Richard Wagner are examined, along with some more contemporary or ironic renderings.

什么是部门法哲学?

部门法哲学是世界法学研究的前沿和最有前景的跨学科的交叉研究领域,作为对现有研究的概括和命名,部门法哲学的提出是当代中国法学的一个理论创新。所谓的部门法哲学,其实是对这一领域的刑法哲学、民法哲学、行政法哲学、诉讼与司法哲学、宪法哲学、经济法哲学、商法哲学、国际法哲学等所有部门法学与法哲学之间跨学科研究的一个总称。部门法哲学区别于部门法学的标志在于反思的视角及其问题设定的方式。部门法哲学与法哲学的区别在于其研究的是法律的局部而非整体,并且形成了自身的范畴体系。部门法哲学的范畴一般是法哲学范畴的下位概念。     

法制现代化与传统儒家政治哲学

在法制现代化驶进快车道的今天,对儒家政治哲学持什么样的立场,是不可回避的话题。传统儒家政治哲学有一定的糟粕,在很大程度上阻碍着法制现代化的进程,但其中也不乏理性和智慧,值得我们去挖掘和弘扬。     

哲学解释学与法律解释学——《真理与方法》对法学的启示

通过对《真理与方法》等解释学著作的学习 ,本文初步论述了法学的三个问题 :第一 ,法律解释学不是科学理论 ;第二 ,法律解释的创造性及其意义 ;第三 ,理解中的偏见与法学教育活动。     

论欧、美国际私法法典化的不同进路及其法哲学思想

国际私法的法典化主要通过两种进路 :一种是国际私法的专门化立法 ,另一种是国际私法法律适用规范的重述 ,前者以欧洲大陆法系奥地利、瑞士等国际私法立法为代表 ,后者以美国的两次冲突法重述为代表。欧洲大陆国际私法法典化体现的是建构理性和分析主义法哲学观 ,而美国的国际私法法典化体现的是演进理性和实用主义法哲学观。     

新时期哲学创新必须正确处理“五对”关系

哲学是时代精神的精华,是一切文明的核心内容。文章从哲学创新的前提条件出发,认为实现哲学创新必须处理好"五对"关系:马克思主义哲学与中国传统哲学、西方哲学的关系;对马克思主义哲学坚持与发展的关系;马克思主义哲学中"一"与"多"的关系;理论思维发展的固有逻辑与社会实践的关系;哲学研究的专业化与哲学内涵大众化的关系。     

马克思主义哲学与当代西方哲学的共建

自19世纪初黑格尔完成哲学史上第一次大综合后，人类自由驰聘的理智便开始向三个方向演变，即科学哲学、马克思主义哲学和人本主义哲学。但进入20世纪后，这三大哲学就日益从分化趋向综合。西方马克思主义哲学、语言哲学、解释学、结构主义、历史主义、科学实在认，都体现了三个哲学的融合。事实上，无论是眼下哲学的发展趋向、面对的研究对象、追求的实践目标、所处的知识背景，还是即将到来的信息时代的激励挑战，都迫切要求马克思主义哲学和当代西方哲学携手共建。