Welcome!
登入
註冊
美寶首頁
美寶百科
美寶論壇
美寶落格
美寶地圖
首頁
>
職涯 / Professional Career
>
產業別 Industry
>
社會企業
>
美寶人文科技股份有限公司
>
汪純瑩 Gustav Chun-Ying Wang
Advanced
汪純瑩 Gustav Chun-Ying Wang
作者:
主旨:
Tags:
Message:
gustav Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Afterword to Gustav's Kyoto Trip 2013 (November 10 > ~ 22) > > > (Photo source: SHIRAKAWA Shintaro, KUASU) > > The way Professor Graham PRIEST instructed his > lecture series at Kyoto University during 11 ~ 21, > Nov., 2013 was a great encouragement to me. As a > developing philosopher (wisdom lover), to see > another matured truth seeker really cherishes and > encourages the appreciation of the braveness and > honesty for philosophy itself is always inspiring, > especially in the rigidly professionalized global > academic atmosphere. Beside of the inspiration of > Professor Graham PRIEST’s talks on Madhyamaka > philosophy and the logistic approaches to it, the > exchanges and collaboration among the students > from our neighborhood countries on that topic > particularly impressed and influenced me. From > there, I can see a model forming itself, a young > and enthusiastic one, for establishing some real > philosophical reflections and systems upon and > inside Asia’s own cultures, religions and > thoughts via close communications among young > philosophers across this neighborhood, with deep > considerations and understandings of the global > (existing) philosophical traditions. The way > Professor DEGUCHI Yasuo and KUASU Office arranged > the whole event, and the relevant projects, say, > the exchange plans between Kyoto University and > National Singapore University which were > accompanied with two synchronized reading clubs > led by two correspondent sophisticated > philosophers, Jay GARFIELD and DEGUCHI Yasuo, the > focused lecture series in Kyoto with a small group > of students of similar philosophical interests > from the neighborhood countries, the annual > Kyoto-Chengchi Workshops, etc., altogether > promised us very fruitful outcome in the > forth-coming years. The ideal demonstrated in > these arrangements is so agreeable and actually > quite meets the call of our era. After all, after > all these imbalanced intellectual development in > the past few centuries and its unhappy outcome we > are all suffering now (in thought and in practice > both), it’s about time to reconsider the > appropriate disciplinary relocation. Should it be > the case that humanity is subsumed under science? > Should it be the case that the fundamental > academic divisions like philosophy, mathematics > are casted off by most of the so-called > universities? Should philosophy, which should > have spent time reflecting and talking about the > intellectual systematics, go on staying weak and > in dystrophy? Should it be the case that social > engineering divisions like politics, policies, > economics and technology deserve individual > interest of its own without the background of > moral, human or even cosmological/ecological > considerations? Should it be the case that the > theoretical employment and the practical > employment of our collective intelligence remain > confused and disordered? Should it not be the > case that in front of all the empirical > discrepancies we are basically belonging to the > same kind, the human kind, with some same > communicable starting points or positions, which > shall be free from any prejudices and belief > systems? According to what I have experienced in > the two-week stay in Kyoto, I entrust the ideal to > the practice happening in Kyoto University KUASU, > and will be glad to take part in the practice! > > Relevant websites: > Kyoto University - KUASU: > http://www.kuasu.cpier.kyoto-u.ac.jp/english/ > NCCU - Buddhica: http://buddhica.nccu.edu.tw