Montanelli suffered from the fierce conflict between humanity and divinity in his pursuit of religious belief.As a sacrifice on the altar of God,Montanelli's tragedy reflects the influence of the religion upon his...Montanelli suffered from the fierce conflict between humanity and divinity in his pursuit of religious belief.As a sacrifice on the altar of God,Montanelli's tragedy reflects the influence of the religion upon his behaviors,his internal spirit and his tragic destiny in the end.Furthermore,it manifests the cruelty and darkness of the religious rule and the distortion of the humankind in his age.展开更多
tNourished by the natural scenery of the Daxing'anling Mountains when growing up,Chi Zijian has grand literary beliefs and tends to build worlds flled with divinity to bridge ideals and reality in her literary cre...tNourished by the natural scenery of the Daxing'anling Mountains when growing up,Chi Zijian has grand literary beliefs and tends to build worlds flled with divinity to bridge ideals and reality in her literary creations.Her novel At the Peak(Qunshan zhi Dian),published in 2o15,creates a poetic and distant place with an air of mystery.The most prominent feature of her cogitation on divinity in the novel is the depiction of a charming world where every being has a spirit and this is reflected in the transcendental mood of the language used in the novel.Together,these features constitute the unique aesthetic characteristics of the divinity narrative in Chi's novels.In her works,active construction and passive deconstruction appear simultaneously,and the contradiction displays her respect for and concern about reality.Nonetheless,the romantic and poetic flavor of literature arises out of the crevices of pain precisely at the point where secularity and fairy tales collide and when despair reaches toward hope.This is the charm of At the Peak.展开更多
Background:Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)as a traditional Chinese medical practice,has gradually evolved into a coherent and systematic medical science based on natural principles and applied to human beings over t...Background:Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)as a traditional Chinese medical practice,has gradually evolved into a coherent and systematic medical science based on natural principles and applied to human beings over time.The publication of the“Huangdi Neijing”(The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine,Written between the Warring States period and the Qin and Han Dynasties,and finally compiled in the Western Han Dynasty,from 475 B.C.E.-8 C.E.)signified the establishment of a comprehensive theoretical framework for Chinese medicine.Due to the perspective of the‘correspondence between heaven and man’in TCM,the purpose of this paper is to explore the origin and development of the basic theories of TCM under the ancient astronomical view and the connection between the two.Methods:This paper emphases on the universe uninty with the humanities,philosophy,and medicine,starting with the forms of stargazing in ancient Chinese astronomy and the natural laws derived by the ancients from their observations of natural celestial phenomena.Results:Astronomy,arts and crafts,divination and medical correlations are based on the sequential changes of natural seasons.Conclusion:The operation of natural celestial phenomena and the characteristics of physical phenomena correspond to human physiology,and the development of the basic theories of Chinese medicine is inextricably linked to ancient astronomy,ancient philosophy,and ancient primeval science.展开更多
The last temptation of Christ is a controversial great work,and few contemporary vraters can use such a broad mind to examine the temptation and suffering of reality.Based on the director' s point of view,this pap...The last temptation of Christ is a controversial great work,and few contemporary vraters can use such a broad mind to examine the temptation and suffering of reality.Based on the director' s point of view,this paper not only analyzes the side of Jesus' human nature,but also analyzes his divine side.Finally,the author suggests that we can use love and hope to face life.展开更多
Dan Brown's Angels and Demons published in 2000 directly centered on the theme of the debate upon religion and science.It is a vivid depiction of the collision of humanity and divinity,which evokes people's de...Dan Brown's Angels and Demons published in 2000 directly centered on the theme of the debate upon religion and science.It is a vivid depiction of the collision of humanity and divinity,which evokes people's deep probing to the crisis-ridden modern society.This article aims at analyzing the postmodernism writing features adopted in the theme of Angels and Demons.展开更多
As an outstanding writer in America, Whitman regarded his Leaves of grass as his own life. In Leaves of grass, he eulogized ＂self＇ with great enthusiasm and expressed the idea that self was eternal and imperishable,...As an outstanding writer in America, Whitman regarded his Leaves of grass as his own life. In Leaves of grass, he eulogized ＂self＇ with great enthusiasm and expressed the idea that self was eternal and imperishable, just like the cycle of the nature. The concept of the ＂self＇ embodied in Whitman＇s Leaves of grass possessed double structure： body and soul; microcosmic and macroscopic. Whitman＇s recognition to ＂self＇ was the continuation of Emerson＇s thought, but he also had his own breakthrough. He explored the connotation of ＂self＇ from the relation self with mankind, time, nature and God. Self was always undying not only in body but also in soul. The relations among people were the foundation of self, which possessed boundless time and measureless space and which could come true through rotation of nature in perpetuity and be flow of empathy in perpetuity.展开更多
In contemporary thinking, "reason" has become synonymous with "correctness" to the extent that it is even capable of prescribing laws to nature. Ancient philosophers, including Plato and Cicero, of...In contemporary thinking, "reason" has become synonymous with "correctness" to the extent that it is even capable of prescribing laws to nature. Ancient philosophers, including Plato and Cicero, offered a holistic, profound, and clear understanding of its connotations. As a symbol that distinguishes humans from animals and the requisite means or tools for seeking the truth, reason is characterized by both divinity and nobility. It also maintains a degree of neutrality, with the right use of reason as the key to determining its nature. In essence, reason is a type of calculation that can be used to do either good or evil. Hence, it must be supplemented by divinity and virtue. As a cognitive faculty, to reason is to perceive one’s own limits and practice moderation, temperance, and prudence, thus maintaining a full grasp of the world and becoming a useful being.展开更多
Early Renaissance man regained the independence of individual personality, but by the fear of God into the evolution away from God, from the backwash toward the loss. Late Renaissance reflection and adjustments is com...Early Renaissance man regained the independence of individual personality, but by the fear of God into the evolution away from God, from the backwash toward the loss. Late Renaissance reflection and adjustments is comforting one, rational constraints original desire, divinity give directions to humanity, which is the most profound meaning of humanism. For human freedom and liberation, post-humanism made a valuable exploration, by absorbing humanistic ingredients of the ancient Greek - Roman and Hebrew - Christian culture, tried to avoid walking single dimension of cultural evolution orientation.展开更多
This essay will review the earliest case that documents a patient’s experience of qi,one found on a bamboo text buried with the patient who died in the 318 BCE.Details of the healing encounter and of concepts of illn...This essay will review the earliest case that documents a patient’s experience of qi,one found on a bamboo text buried with the patient who died in the 318 BCE.Details of the healing encounter and of concepts of illness show how non-transmitted documents hidden from later editors in tombs preserve an older layer of medical understanding than that in transmitted canons,such as the Huang Di Nei Jing(Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor).The 4th-century BCE case record described below is the longest early medical record concerning the treatment of a specific individual.It is also an account of failure formally recorded for the sake of the survivors and buried with the dead to be transmitted to the world of the spirits.The essay begins with a reevaluation of ancient concept of qi and then moves on to the individual case record.展开更多
This essay is twofold： the first part focuses on the interpretation of the concept of Hell in Dante＇s Inferno and Italian culture as depicted in Last Judgment scenes such as Giotto＇s in the Arena Chapel of Padua; S...This essay is twofold： the first part focuses on the interpretation of the concept of Hell in Dante＇s Inferno and Italian culture as depicted in Last Judgment scenes such as Giotto＇s in the Arena Chapel of Padua; Signorelli＇s in the Orvieto Cathedral; and Michelangelo＇s in the Sistine Chapel in Rome. The second part deals with the drawing illustrations for the text of Dante＇s Divine Comedy composed by the Florentine painters Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Here the emphasis is on Dante＇s Inferno, which comments upon Neoplatonic personalities, Florentine politics, and current popular art. Comparisons with some of Botticelli＇s, Stradano＇s, and Zuccaro＇s drawing illustrations indicate the assimilation of classical artistic concepts such as Horace＇s ut pictura poesis [as is painting so is poetry] as well as Plato＇sfurorpoeticus [poetical inspiration] promoted in the writings of Marsilio Ficino, a Renaissance Neoplatonic philosopher.展开更多
文摘Montanelli suffered from the fierce conflict between humanity and divinity in his pursuit of religious belief.As a sacrifice on the altar of God,Montanelli's tragedy reflects the influence of the religion upon his behaviors,his internal spirit and his tragic destiny in the end.Furthermore,it manifests the cruelty and darkness of the religious rule and the distortion of the humankind in his age.
基金This paper is a periodical result of the National Social Science Fund general project"Narrative of the Village and the Evolution of Chinese Native Novels"(14BZW181).
文摘tNourished by the natural scenery of the Daxing'anling Mountains when growing up,Chi Zijian has grand literary beliefs and tends to build worlds flled with divinity to bridge ideals and reality in her literary creations.Her novel At the Peak(Qunshan zhi Dian),published in 2o15,creates a poetic and distant place with an air of mystery.The most prominent feature of her cogitation on divinity in the novel is the depiction of a charming world where every being has a spirit and this is reflected in the transcendental mood of the language used in the novel.Together,these features constitute the unique aesthetic characteristics of the divinity narrative in Chi's novels.In her works,active construction and passive deconstruction appear simultaneously,and the contradiction displays her respect for and concern about reality.Nonetheless,the romantic and poetic flavor of literature arises out of the crevices of pain precisely at the point where secularity and fairy tales collide and when despair reaches toward hope.This is the charm of At the Peak.
基金the support of the Fund’s programme named Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Department-Applied Basic Research Joint Special Funds of Chinese Medicine(202101AZ070001-061).
文摘Background:Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)as a traditional Chinese medical practice,has gradually evolved into a coherent and systematic medical science based on natural principles and applied to human beings over time.The publication of the“Huangdi Neijing”(The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine,Written between the Warring States period and the Qin and Han Dynasties,and finally compiled in the Western Han Dynasty,from 475 B.C.E.-8 C.E.)signified the establishment of a comprehensive theoretical framework for Chinese medicine.Due to the perspective of the‘correspondence between heaven and man’in TCM,the purpose of this paper is to explore the origin and development of the basic theories of TCM under the ancient astronomical view and the connection between the two.Methods:This paper emphases on the universe uninty with the humanities,philosophy,and medicine,starting with the forms of stargazing in ancient Chinese astronomy and the natural laws derived by the ancients from their observations of natural celestial phenomena.Results:Astronomy,arts and crafts,divination and medical correlations are based on the sequential changes of natural seasons.Conclusion:The operation of natural celestial phenomena and the characteristics of physical phenomena correspond to human physiology,and the development of the basic theories of Chinese medicine is inextricably linked to ancient astronomy,ancient philosophy,and ancient primeval science.
文摘The last temptation of Christ is a controversial great work,and few contemporary vraters can use such a broad mind to examine the temptation and suffering of reality.Based on the director' s point of view,this paper not only analyzes the side of Jesus' human nature,but also analyzes his divine side.Finally,the author suggests that we can use love and hope to face life.
文摘Dan Brown's Angels and Demons published in 2000 directly centered on the theme of the debate upon religion and science.It is a vivid depiction of the collision of humanity and divinity,which evokes people's deep probing to the crisis-ridden modern society.This article aims at analyzing the postmodernism writing features adopted in the theme of Angels and Demons.
文摘As an outstanding writer in America, Whitman regarded his Leaves of grass as his own life. In Leaves of grass, he eulogized ＂self＇ with great enthusiasm and expressed the idea that self was eternal and imperishable, just like the cycle of the nature. The concept of the ＂self＇ embodied in Whitman＇s Leaves of grass possessed double structure： body and soul; microcosmic and macroscopic. Whitman＇s recognition to ＂self＇ was the continuation of Emerson＇s thought, but he also had his own breakthrough. He explored the connotation of ＂self＇ from the relation self with mankind, time, nature and God. Self was always undying not only in body but also in soul. The relations among people were the foundation of self, which possessed boundless time and measureless space and which could come true through rotation of nature in perpetuity and be flow of empathy in perpetuity.
基金supported by the National Social Science Fund of China called “Translation and Research of Bacon’s Collected Works”(18BZX093)the Post-Funded Major Project by the Ministry of Education “Exegesis of the Apology of Socrates”(17JHQ0012)funded by the Scientific Research Foundation of Hainan University(kyqd[sk]18001)
文摘In contemporary thinking, "reason" has become synonymous with "correctness" to the extent that it is even capable of prescribing laws to nature. Ancient philosophers, including Plato and Cicero, offered a holistic, profound, and clear understanding of its connotations. As a symbol that distinguishes humans from animals and the requisite means or tools for seeking the truth, reason is characterized by both divinity and nobility. It also maintains a degree of neutrality, with the right use of reason as the key to determining its nature. In essence, reason is a type of calculation that can be used to do either good or evil. Hence, it must be supplemented by divinity and virtue. As a cognitive faculty, to reason is to perceive one’s own limits and practice moderation, temperance, and prudence, thus maintaining a full grasp of the world and becoming a useful being.
文摘Early Renaissance man regained the independence of individual personality, but by the fear of God into the evolution away from God, from the backwash toward the loss. Late Renaissance reflection and adjustments is comforting one, rational constraints original desire, divinity give directions to humanity, which is the most profound meaning of humanism. For human freedom and liberation, post-humanism made a valuable exploration, by absorbing humanistic ingredients of the ancient Greek - Roman and Hebrew - Christian culture, tried to avoid walking single dimension of cultural evolution orientation.
基金This study is financed by the grant from Lehigh University,College of Arts and Sciences,NEH distinguished scholar fund.
文摘This essay will review the earliest case that documents a patient’s experience of qi,one found on a bamboo text buried with the patient who died in the 318 BCE.Details of the healing encounter and of concepts of illness show how non-transmitted documents hidden from later editors in tombs preserve an older layer of medical understanding than that in transmitted canons,such as the Huang Di Nei Jing(Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor).The 4th-century BCE case record described below is the longest early medical record concerning the treatment of a specific individual.It is also an account of failure formally recorded for the sake of the survivors and buried with the dead to be transmitted to the world of the spirits.The essay begins with a reevaluation of ancient concept of qi and then moves on to the individual case record.
文摘This essay is twofold： the first part focuses on the interpretation of the concept of Hell in Dante＇s Inferno and Italian culture as depicted in Last Judgment scenes such as Giotto＇s in the Arena Chapel of Padua; Signorelli＇s in the Orvieto Cathedral; and Michelangelo＇s in the Sistine Chapel in Rome. The second part deals with the drawing illustrations for the text of Dante＇s Divine Comedy composed by the Florentine painters Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Here the emphasis is on Dante＇s Inferno, which comments upon Neoplatonic personalities, Florentine politics, and current popular art. Comparisons with some of Botticelli＇s, Stradano＇s, and Zuccaro＇s drawing illustrations indicate the assimilation of classical artistic concepts such as Horace＇s ut pictura poesis [as is painting so is poetry] as well as Plato＇sfurorpoeticus [poetical inspiration] promoted in the writings of Marsilio Ficino, a Renaissance Neoplatonic philosopher.
