中国“黄金日”闪亮深圳 彰显黄金美好新势力

国际性的黄金推广机构世界黄金协会于2009年2月27日在深圳福田香格里拉酒店举行了声势浩大的“黄金日”推广活动。这是自过去两年协会于深圳国际珠宝展内举行“黄金日”展示和研讨会之后的全新举措，2009年的“黄金日”推广活动以“黄金，美好新势力”为主题，结合协会三大金饰推广活动的发布，并邀请全国著名行业媒体和业界代表300多名共聚一堂，揭开了2009年中国黄金推广的新篇章。     

比较哲学中的分化——对托马斯·墨子刻之方法论的若干思考

托马斯·墨子刻(Thomas A.Metzger)指出,中国政治思想的解释者们必须在两个目标之间取得一种平衡:对背景和文化连续性的强调,以及对批判性反思和真理的强调.通过与他的著作和方法论的对话,本文展开了两个主要的论点.首先,笔者认为从罗伯特·布兰登(Robert Brandom)那里借用来的一种理解"话语"(discourse)和"约定"(commitment)的方式比墨子刻自己的方法论更为成功地应对了他所提出的可贵目标.其次,笔者区分了比较研究中的两种策略,也即对"包容性背景"(inclusive context)的强调以及对"分化"(disaggregation)的强调.文章建议,必须谨慎地运用我通过"分化"所标识的方法,人们应当始终清楚地意识到墨子刻所极力向我们表明的主张,进而掌握比较哲学的"分化"这一方法论策略.     

母爱的力量有多大？

随着母亲节的到来，每一年的5月我们都会制作关于母爱的专辑。而如今更让我顿悟“女人、母亲、母爱”这三者之间的联系和含义。     

Educational indicators and occupational achievement

Many sociological and economic studies assume that the variable, Highest Grade Completed in School, is by itself an adequate measure of people's education for the purpose of explaining their occupational achievement. Use of Highest Grade Completed as the sole measure of education has at least two major shortcomings. It assumes people have (1) learned the same amount of (2) the same thing in an academic year. Supplementary education indicators are identified and tested to see if they have a substantial impact on occupational prestige or earnings. Background social statuses and Highest Grade Completed are controlled for in this test. Only measures of subject matter studied in high school or college have a statistically significant relationship with occupational achievement net of Highest Grade Completed and social background variables. Highest Grade Completed is quite adequate in measuring the impact of education on occupational achievement without help from the measures of subject matter studied.     

参与的必要性——走向现代儒家政治

现代新儒家所面临的一个重要问题是:这一以道德为主要关注点的文化传统如何与现代民主政治相适应?与那种认为儒家应局限于道德教育的观点相反,文章认为儒家必须发展出一种参与性的政治,其原因有三:一是政治参与是个人道德培养的必要手段;二是政治的独立性要求客观的制度结构而不仅仅是道德教化;三是我们人性中的缺陷只有通过广泛的政治参与才能克服.     

Risk-Based Zoning for Toxic-Gas Pipelines

Implicit in the operation of a toxic-gas pipeline is the possibility of an accidental release, which could have serious consequences if upwind of a nearby populated area. Concern for public safety leads to the establishment of isolation corridors or buffer zones to reduce and control the hazard to human settlements. Although "worst case" or "average case" are often used in the determination of safe distances, a probabilistic approach (risk analysis) is superior because it identifies important factors, it makes maximum use of available data, it allows comparison of alternatives, and it quantifies intuitive risk considerations. To illustrate the method, a risk model developed for sour gas pipelines in the Province of Alberta, Canada is outlined and an actual risk-distance curve is presented. The current zoning regulations in Alberta are summarized.     

敬、礼、完美与现代政治哲学

对于当代儒家政治哲学来说,敬、礼和完美这三个相连成系的概念既是一种挑战,又是一种机遇。作为挑战,是因为批评家们认为这些思想应为儒家政治思想过去的失败与现在的不相关性负主要的责任;但是,如果这些概念能够通过面对挑战并对批评家们的批评进行回应的方式来理解,那么,这将给儒学提供一个机会,使之在世界政治哲学的对话中作出重大的贡献。文章通过对陈素芬和墨子刻的批评的回应,以面对这种挑战并试图寻找存在的机遇。这两位思想家都不承认那种一般认为是能够表现儒家政治思想特色的完美主义。但是,这两个人同时被吸引到一种能够使人坚定向前的态度,这种态度有时被他们称为“信仰”。文章认为,人们可以在一种开放的、易谬主义的角度去理解儒学对完美的承诺,完美的这层含义可以构成敬的观念的基础,而敬正好符合两位批评者所感受到的对某种“信仰”的需要。完美和敬可以帮助我们说明为什么儒学十分敏锐地坚持把礼作为我们政治生活的核心。