DSpace collection: 期刊論文

Text, Interpretation, Praxis: Ricoeur's Hermeneutics in From Text To Action

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:16:25 GMT

title: Text, Interpretation, Praxis: Ricoeur's Hermeneutics in From Text To Action abstract: This paper tries to elucidate how Ricoeur, the most famous French philosopher of hermeneutics in the twentieth century, following the critique of Schleiermacher's and Dilthey's objectivism that modeled itself after natural sciences, and was inherited Heidegger's and Gadamer's hermeneutics of Dasein's ontology by discussing "pre-understanding," "prejudice," and "ideology," on the one hand; and how he criticizes the fracture between epistemology and Heidegger's ontology, which causes the lack of objective knowing method of the latter's hermeneutics, on the other hand. It is to explain how Ricoeur reconstructs objective method for hermeneutics by involving in structuralism and linguistics whose objectivity, as he thinks, belongs to Humanities themselves. However there remains discrepancy between Ricoeur and structuralism as well as deconstructionism, namely, their disagreement about the question whether symbols should have the signified referents outside the system of the signifying or not. Besides, it will show the greatest contribution Ricoeur gave to the current hermeneutics: he traces understanding of text back to Aristotle' s Poetics and Nicomachean Ethics, emphasizing the common feature of interpretation and narrative, i.e., the emplotment and searching for meaning, and then connects understanding and interpretation of text with action, event and agent. By doing this, Ricoeur sketches a clear picture of human individual facing a text, who is always an actor with a purposeful intention in a meaningful context and at all time looking for and constructing meaningfulness by action as well as by understanding. According to this, Ricoeur expands hermeneutics into human culture and history, giving values and meaning to them in contrast to nihilism.

Confuican Ethics: Ti and Yong

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:16:23 GMT

title: Confuican Ethics: Ti and Yong

Concepts of Chinese folk happiness

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:16:22 GMT

title: Concepts of Chinese folk happiness abstract: Discourses on Chinese folk happiness are often based on anecdotal narratives or qualitative analysis. Two traditional concepts of happiness popular in Chinese culture are introduced. The paper constructs a concept of Chinese folk happiness on basis of the findings of a scientific survey on the Taiwanese people regarding their concepts of well-being at nation and personal levels. The survey has revealed that people's concepts of well-being are consisted of a diversity of elements including political, economic, social, and cultural factors, as well as health, family, job, and social relationships. The paper compares these concepts with the traditional notions of Chinese folk happiness.

Business Ethics and the Well-Being of Nations - Is There a Connection?

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:16:20 GMT

title: Business Ethics and the Well-Being of Nations - Is There a Connection? abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine whether and how business ethics is connected with the well-being of a nation. There has been active research in the well-being of nations across the globe in the last two decades, resulting in substantial theoretical progress and a wealth of empirical data on the well-beings of different nations across the globe. Dissatisfied with the conventional measures such as the GDP, well-being researchers have been developing alternative measures that can better capture the true nature of the well-being of a country. The paper begins by examining why the GDP is inadequate as a good measure of the well-being of a country. Major alternative proposals on well-being or similar measures are summarized. Objective well-being of a nation refers to the conditions of well-being of a country. Subjective wellbeing of a nation is the perceptions of its citizens with regard to their satisfaction with the major conditions of living in that nation. The paper presents two central arguments leading to the conclusion that business ethics is an integral part of the well-being of a country. The first argument utilizes the concept of workplace well-being to establish the linkage. The second argument uses evidence from a recent survey of the perceptions of Taiwanese people on business ethics in relation to the well-being of a nation. The paper also reveals that common values tie the two together at a deeper level.