What Makes a Good Leader? Fairness, Selflessness

中西文化迥异！本文的标题,若译成汉语,那是:什么造就一个好的领导者?公平,还有无私。在我们这里,这显然是一个谈论政治的问题,而在西方,本文所出现的栏目,也许让你瞠目结舌:本文出现在最近的 Yahoo！的Health专栏之中！在西方,如何成为一位好的领导者,这是一个心理问题,被置于“健康”这个大命题之下。而且,这里所说的leader(领导者)的概念,与“政治”很少关系。leader主要指企业及公司的领导。本文对这个问题(What Makes aGood Leader?)的回答发人深省: 1/treat everyone fairly,and give group members a voice in decision making 2/self-sacrificing and includes group members in decision-making 简言之,即平等待人,决策时广泛听取下属们的意见。 细心的读者也许会发现,本文出现的 self-sacrificing and inclusive短语中的形容词inclusive已经被赋予新的含义。那就是“能采纳吸收各方意见的”。另外,本文还使用了 leader characteristics(领导者应有的性格)一词,新意拂面。

Manabi as an Altemative Concept of Learning in Educational Discourses

This paper considers a theory and practices of Japanese manabi （学） as an alternative concept of learning in the era of post-globalization. Although the term manabi is widely used as the translation of learning and Lernen in the field of pedagogy and in Japanese schools, it is important to understand its meaning, since the meaning of manabi is a comprehensive concept that differs semantically from the words learning, Lernen, and Bildung in the Western words. Faced with the globalization in the 21st century, there has been a tendency to promote educational reform and curriculum policies that could be characterized as ＂learnification＂ in which ＂21st century skills,＂ ＂competency-based learning,＂ and ＂learner-centered education＂ are emphasized. While the Western idea of learning that highlights active self is attractive to change classroom practices from the transmission of knowledge to an innovative style of active, collaborative, communicative learning, and problem-solving, Japanese education sustains traditional values that derive from selflessness and nothingness in Eastern philosophy.

Nature of Valuational Consciousness in Good Life

I make an attempt in the paper to argue in favor of the person-centered view of good life, where becoming a good person involves seeking to qualitatively transform oneself into a worthy human being. I maintain that becoming fully a person and respecting others as persons are achievements that are not assured for all of us. Thus, for the purpose I prepare the ground for an account of good life that rests on valuational consciousness. I propose that one may ascribe valuational consciousness to a person who is a value-sensitive rational being striving to attain a kind of inner transparency. Evidently, to say that a person has valuational consciousness is to stress the values, which are built into personal consciousness. The life of a person, whether that of truth, courage, nobility, justice, kindness, is a life marked by ego transcending personal consciousness that reaches out to humanity at large. And such a repository of values enables a human being to attain the ideal of good life. The ideal of good life, I contend, consists of attaining the higher order posture of selflessness--a posture of inner transparency. It is to shake off the egocentric partiality that characterizes our usual attitudinal stance towards one another.

Selfless Scout

Cub Scout① Billy Joe Thomas,of Seattle,is one determinedsalesman.Working daily six-hour shifts(12 hours on weekends)outsidesupermarkets and at bus stops—even in pouring rain②—he sold 801tickets to a regional scout show③and won the grand prize:a trip

Numbers

Slow But Steady China＇s GDP grew 6.7 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2016 to reach 15.9 trillion yuan （$2.4 trillion）, according to the National Bureau of Statistics （NBS）. The growth further slowed from the previous quarter＇s 6.8 percent, which was already the lowest quarterly rate since the global financial crisis. The NBS also published data on major economic indicators,

Meditator and Doer： On the Socialist New Man in Liu Qing＇s Novel The Builders

This article examines Liu Qing＇s 1959 novel The Builders, an epical work on the Agricultural Cooperation Movement, from the perspective of configuration of the Socialist New Man. Illuminated by the works of the May Fourth generation, especially Lu Xun, the author argues that the figure of the Socialist New Man usually differentiates itself into two literary prototypes--meditator and doer. Liu Qing attempts to maintain a productive and dialectic tension between meditations and deeds, instead of mere discrepancy or incompatibility. The article demonstrates that in literature, while the meditator can be depicted thoroughly through psychological dynamics and unconscious dreams, it is more problematic to represent the doer. Such a formal and philosophical problem is central to literature, as well as corresponds to the socio-historical paradox of the 1950s China.

Attribute-Based Signature with Policy-and-Endorsement Mechanism

In this paper a new signature scheme,called Policy-Endorsing Attribute-Based Signature,is developed to correspond with the existing Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption.This signature provides a policy-and-endorsement mechanism.In this mechanism a single user,whose attributes satisfy the predicate,endorses the message.This signature allows the signer to announce his endorsement using an access policy without having to reveal the identity of the signer.The security of this signature,selfless anonymity and existential unforgeability,is based on the Strong Diffie-Hellman assumption and the Decision Linear assumption in bilinear map groups.