| Volume 5, Number 3, July 2008 |
Global Famine
by 米榭•丘素多夫斯基 Michel Chossudovsky |
Tomás Pereira, S. J., and the Eclipse of the Portuguese Padroado
by César Guillén-Nuñez 胡纪伦
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HUMANITY is undergoing in the post-Cold War era an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the World population. National economies are collapsing, unemployment is rampant. Local level famines have erupted in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and parts of Latin America. This “globalisation of poverty”—which has largely reversed the achievements of post-war decolonisation...
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WHEN in 1672 the 27 year old Jesuit Tomás Pereira(1645-1708), quartered at the Jesuit College in Macau, was summoned to the Forbidden City in Beijing by the 18 year old Manchurian Emperor Kangxi (born in 1654; Emperor of China from 1661 to 1722), it was one of the most auspicious news that had been received in the Portuguese enclave in South China for a decade.
Macau had recently passed through one of the most harrowing experiences in its history...
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Bridging Christian Ethics and Confucianism Through Virtue Ethics
by Lúcás Chan & James F. Keenan
陈路加、詹姆斯•基南
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Olympic Legacies and China’s Games: A Brief Examination of Inherited Values
by 罗伯特•巴尼 Robert K. Barney |
IN this essay we examine the growing phenomenon of virtue ethics, first in its own resurgence, then as it has entered swiftly into Christian ethics, and finally as it affords Western scholars an entry into Confucianism. We conclude with a warning.
Virtue Ethics
During the past few decades, virtue ethics has become a prominent alternative to principle-based ethics. Principle-based ethics is an ethics that tells us first what to do or how to act; it prohibits certain actions and prescribes others. Principle-based ethics is therefore an action oriented ethics...
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AS the People's Republic of China braces itself for hosting the Games of the 28th Olympiad in the ancient city of Peking, the rest of the world waits with both pregnant apprehension and serious speculation relative to several questions: (1) Will the Games be celebrated amidst conditions of peace and safekeeping for all—Olympic pilgrims and athletes and their entourages from other lands as well as Chinese citizens? (2) Will improvements in vast urban environmental conditions be equal to the task of gaining an A in both effort and end result for a transformation unequalled in modern times?...
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Free Markets
Behind the Food Crisis
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