赫胥黎的完全人教育论

本文较系统地介绍和分析了赫胥黎关于完全人的教育理论 ,认为赫氏的完全人理论的核心就是强调科学教育与人文教育的结合 ,从而达到科学精神与人文精神在个体心灵上的融合。文章的最后分析了赫胥黎培养完全人的方法 ,这对于今天我国的高等学校的教学改革具有重要的启发意义     

现代国家、公民教育与宗教

现代国家实施公民教育,努力避免某一宗教活动侵入学校教育的公共领域并获得优势;现代民主国家实行政教分离,在各宗教中保持中立的法律原则;在公共教育领域,国家保障公民人格教育的普遍一致.同时,现代国家承认各宗教的宗教教育及其教义具有正当性并给予合理支持;国家为宗教积极参与社会公众的事业提供必要的法律指导,宗教也积极适应现代社会,成为社会公益事业的一部分.     

Estimator Choice and Fisher's Paradox: A Monte Carlo Study

This paper argues that Fisher's paradox can be explained away in terms of estimator choice. We analyse by means of Monte Carlo experiments the small sample properties of a large set of estimators (including virtually all available single-equation estimators), and compute the critical values based on the empirical distributions of the t-statistics, for a variety of Data Generation Processes (DGPs), allowing for structural breaks, ARCH effects etc. We show that precisely the estimators most commonly used in the literature, namely OLS, Dynamic OLS (DOLS) and non-prewhitened FMLS, have the worst performance in small samples, and produce rejections of the Fisher hypothesis. If one employs the estimators with the most desirable properties (i.e., the smallest downward bias and the minimum shift in the distribution of the associated t-statistics), or if one uses the empirical critical values, the evidence based on US data is strongly supportive of the Fisher relation, consistently with many theoretical models.     

Demographic Shifts in the Czech Republic after 1989: A Second Demographic Transition View

A dramatic change in fertility,family formation and living arrangements tookplace in the Czech Republic over the 1990s. Theestablishment of democracy, profound socialtransformation and transition to the marketeconomy affected the values and demographicbehaviour of the young Czech generation. Thispaper examines whether these demographic shiftscan be interpreted within the framework of thesecond demographic transition. The theoreticalpart discusses the idea of the transition,outlining three distinctive conceptualisations.Two of them – the view of the transition as aprogression of characteristic interrelateddemographic changes and a broader viewstressing the importance of underlyingideational factors – fit the Czech situationvery well. A comparison with the Netherlandsreveals that the onset of the transition in theCzech Republic may be clearly located in thefirst half of the 1990s, lagging two decadesbehind the Netherlands.     

The dilemma of recognition: Administrative categories and cultural diversity

Governments around the world combat inequality by means of group-specific redistribution. Some pursue redistribution that benefits groups, but also wish to avoid accentuating or even recognizing group distinctions. This poses a dilemma that they try to resolve by adjusting the category system used to target redistribution. There are three types of adjustment: accommodation (the multicultural approach), denial (the ideal-typical liberal solution), and replacement (a compromise). In replacement the targets of redistributive policies are constructed to avoid accentuation or recognition of inconvenient group distinctions, but still allow redistribution that benefits these groups. Replacement is increasingly in demand around the world because the disadvantages of multiculturalism are becoming apparent while denial is hard to sustain in the face of group inequality. The actual effect of replacement is little researched and less understood, however. Does it resolve the dilemma of recognition? Two examples–India and Nigeria–where replacement has been tried ever since the 1950s cast doubt on its viability.     

试论宗教对话的层次性、基本中介与普遍模式——三论21世纪基督宗教的对话形态

宗教对话不仅是一个关乎当代人类文明健康发展的大问题 ,而且还是一个关乎当代宗教和平乃至当代和平的大问题。为此 ,我们从学理上阐述宗教对话的层次性、基本中介和普遍模式 ,以及揭露希克宗教多元主义的要害在于宗教对话的“平面化”。