| Volume 6, Number 3, July 2009 |
Why is Today’s China Calling in Confucius
by 唐文明 Tang Wenming
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Youth Values and Education
by 陈新汉 Chen Xinhan |
THE Chinese Culture Forum was founded in 2004 by ZHOU Kaixuan and DONG Xiuyu, two initiators, currently co-presidents of the forum council, with CHEN Lai, GAN Yang, HUANG Ping, LIU Xiaofeng, TONG Shijun, WANG Xiaoming, WANG Shaoguang, WANG Hui, YU Yongding, and SU Li as members of the council, and DU Weiming, JIN Yaoji, LI Zehou, WANG Yuanhua, WEI Yu, XU Zhuoyun, and YANG Zhenning, et al. as council advisors. The basic tenets of the forum are to stress the importance of “cultural self-consciousness”, and attempt to “base on the historical situation of the Chinese civilization in the twenty-first century, acquire a new understanding of the past, the present, and the future of China, cut through from specific issues by means of interdisciplinary cooperation, and promote theoretical thinking and practical concern on the subjectivity of the Chinese civilization in the era of globalization”. (1) In August 2007, The Third Chinese Culture Forum, an annual conference, with “Confucius and...
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Values and Youth Values
Values are what Marx called “the relationships that exist for us to survive,”(1)
that is, relationships are the objects that satisfy a subject’s needs. Subjects start with their own needs and interests and form their value systems through discovering how the real world (meaning objects) is significant to subjective needs. Because our subjective needs and our interests are different, we might find that the same object has a different significance for different subjects: that is why our conceptions of value are different. This, though, does not mean that our conception of value is indeterminable: that is because whether objects interact beneficially is not altered by whether a subject is good or bad. The fundamental character of value means that the conception of value starts with “me”; the reason that the real world has never developed as wished is because “our value systems are at root a kind of pragmatism… and precisely because they are pragmatic, they only serve pragmatic ends.”(2)...
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| Issue 6.3 |
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Remembering—
A Shared Duty
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