论“功利主义”概念内涵在中国语境中的变迁——兼论utilitarianism汉语译词的变化及厘定

文章试图在西学东渐的大背景下,展开对西方"功利主义"概念内涵在中国语境中的变迁研究。文章针对utilitarianism汉语译词的变化及厘定过程,查证了该词1869年与中文的首次接触;梳理了utilitarianism在日本的译词确定过程并对核心译词进行了溯源;澄清了历史上严复、梁启超在传播"功利主义"过程中的作用;确定了"功利主义"译词在中国被厘定的关键节点。根据该词曲折的传播过程,读者可以理解"功利主义"概念的内涵在中国语境下的变迁,特别是在当下社会的表达与边沁、穆勒的utilitarianism的原初理论所存在的差异以及最终中国民众所接受的思想概念的核心内容。

On the Tragic of Mrs. Bovary From the Perspective of Utilitarianism

Madame Bovary is a very famous work around the world. Many researches have been made on this great work from various aspects, such as female consciousness, love view, romanticism, and so on. The main character of this novel, Mrs. Bovary, blindly pursues her own business and finally leads to a tragic life. This kind of action is in line with the key point of utility. This article uses the principle of utilitarianism to analyze how it gradually puts Mrs. Bovary into abyss, aiming to express the perniciousness of utility towards people’s life and warn humans to stay away from utilitarian circles in this modern economic society.

Thackeray's Criticism on Benthamite Utilitarianism in Vanity Fair

Although Thackeray in his Vanity Fair has bitterly satirized the follies and cruelties of some Victorians among whom Benthamite Utilitarianism was rampant, there are few studies focusing on his criticism on this ideology.This paper, through a study of Utilitarian principles and values, and an investigation into and an interpretation of Thackeray's symbolism through the two household articles—Iphigenia clock and the family Bible, exposes Thackeray's criticism on Benthamite Utilitarianism and offers a clue to its effects on Victorians.

Contemporary Pandemic and Political “Ideologies”: Prospects From Gandhism

Contemporary world is not the same,after the declaration by World Health Organisation to Covid-19 as pandemic on 11th March 2020.People’s life and all aspects of it are under the grip of a myriad of questions.Where we are and where will we go?In this stage of crisis,we are experiencing a vacuum,as all available political metanarratives are unable to satisfy our needs and fail to provide opportunities of leading a good life.Political ideologies give us structures,platforms,frameworks for systematisation of thoughts upon which we create our“worldview”.On the basis of these world views,economic and political systems are constructed.The present paper will inquire about how the existing world views are insufficient to create“human good”considering the case of globalization,the hyper state of which has accelerated the movement of goods,services,ideas,and people.But,this stage seems to be over by adding one more word in the list of free movements and that is“viruses”.It has created a stir in the whole world and threat to human security.Similarly,the ideology of neoliberalism has focused only on“economic growth”.But,it is evident now that only by developing economically,we cannot make our lives beautiful.Rather,it is lessening the rhythm and balance between human and nature day by day.The material growth has not been able to help us in contemporary pandemic so far,and there is no doubt that“matter”of this materialism alone does not matter in life.The ideology of materialism seems to get failed visualizing condition of developed world mainly America,Germany,and Italy.Communism has witnessed its downfall after the fall of USSR.Again,communist China has more or less created Covid-19 to make herself a“superpower”.History has shown us how communism has locked human freedom and adversely affected transparency of any system.The biggest problem is with the ideology of utilitarianism which endorses every activity of mankind on the basis of“utility”only justifying the idea of making“greatest benefit of greatest number”.This paper will inquire and critically analyse all the above mentioned ideologies and further suggest the Gandhian values,styles,and ideas for making the world a better place to live.

从修改成语现象看今天国人的实用主义价值观

The practice of four-character Chinese idioms alteration used in the signboards by substituting character （s） with their homophonous words has grown into a general trend. Fifty-one altered idioms are collected. The majority of the modifiers are medium-small store owners. Idiom alteration for specific purpose differs from the idiom misinterpretation. Speedy economic growth and material wealth pursuit social context stimulate the idiom alteration behavior which enforces the pragmatism value orientation. By modifying idioms into four-character structures of strong practical effect, the obvious pragamtic value of the businessmen and of Chinese are manifested. A causal analysis method is used.

基于模糊微分对策多机空战组内协同的U解

鉴于协商微分对策多具有强非线性和不确定性特点,为避免非线性问题等带来求解上的困难和能处理不确定信息,基于T-S模糊微分对策的思想,对非线性的基于Utilitarian解(简称U解)的协商微分对策的状态方程和性能分别进行了模糊化和二次型化,构造出面向U解的协商微分对策的模糊线性化模型,研究了协商U解模型中加权系数的确定,并进一步探讨了在模糊线性协商微分对策系统下相应于U解的控制器的设计方法。研究工作和仿真结果可以说明,相对于Nash协商解,协商理论的U解更能反映整体效果,更易于推广。

British Multiculturalism and Its Evolution in a Utilitarian Perspective

David Cameron' s speech in Munich(February 2011) has been seen as a U-turn of the British approach to ethnic minorities and diversity(particularly concerning Muslims and South Asians) and a clear rejection of multiculturalism,in the wake of the European terror attacks(Madrid 2004,London 2005).The heyday of multiculturalism is associated to Tony Blair' s Premiership(1997-2007) and more generally to New Labour rule(1997-2010).After defining multiculturalism this paper will try and put it in a historical and philosophical perspective,that is to say as one of the latest offshoots of Utilitarianism within the general framework of Western liberalism.Revisiting Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill may help understand the notions of tolerance and political freedom that are part and parcel of the multicultural project.

Gifford Pinchot's Thoughts on Conservation

Gifford Pinchot played a significant role in America's first conversation movement. He put forward many conservation polices for American federal government. Pinchot's thoughts on natural resources conservation have rich content. He realized the limitation of natural resources,so he advocated scientific management and governmental supervision on public land. He embedded conservation with moral significance and regarded conservation as an essential means of promoting social justice and international peace. The analysis on Pinchot's thoughts on conversation can help people understand the development of American environmental thoughts in the 20thcentury and can also provide inspiration for natural resources protection in China.

Understanding the Ethical Theories in Medical Practice

It is important to understand the basic of the ethical theories and how to utilize them to deal with the ethical dilemma in the medical practice. This article presents a brief review of three of famous philosophical theories of ethics, which may enrich our understanding and guide our behaviour in medical practice. Conclusion: There is no fully adequate moral theory which can singly explain all ethical or moral dilemmas and none of them also can singly explain all ethical or moral dilemmas.

Unequal and Universal:The Opposition and Unity of the Confucianism and Mohism in the View of Distributive Justice

Among the hundred schools of scholars in the pre-Qin period,Confucianism and Mohism were prominent.From the perspective of the emotional motivation of distribution and the fact that individual love is unequal,the Confucianism believes that there is an inevitable natural and reasonable distribution gap.From the perspective of distribution results,Mohism,from the ideal inverse of overall utilitarianism,requires the group to“love without unequal”,and believes that the distribution of selfless“universal love”is reasonable.However,the Confucianism and Mohism views on distributive justice are basically the same in the following five aspects.First,equal distribution of basic means of production and livelihood;second,give priority to the elderly and other vulnerable groups in society;third,oppose extreme individualism;fourth,criticize the polarization of too large distribution gap;fifth,public power should be appropriately opened.Therefore,the view of distributive justice of Confucianism and Mohism is both opposite and unified.

An Utilitarianist Reading of Criminal Law

Utilitarianism is the branch of philosophy that studies the usefulness of an idea. Among the possible gains and losses, the balance must be positive to reach the intended utility. Criminal law is the most repressive branch of legal system and therefore should be applied sparingly by the state. Its usefulness should be the protection of legal interests and minimal restriction of personal liberty. The lawmaker should seek the best way to achieve this utility with the choice of the most relevant legal interests and less repressive means before appealing to the criminal law. The legal interests protected by criminal law must be the most important ones for a social life in harmony and prohibited behaviors must be injurious or dangerous to those legal interests. The Rule of Law does not authorize criminal prohibitions without a minimum limit that allows citizens to behave according to their wishes, provided that does not harm the interests of other people. This is the calculation that legislator, judge, and interpreter should seek： more protection and less restriction to citizens.

Research on Piano Education in Contemporary China

Parents in the education of their children,also pay more attention to piano education,which set off a wave of learning piano upsurge.This paper will analyze the reasons why piano education can present such a strong popularity through the personal practice and preliminary exploration of the current piano education,and make a series of reflections on some problems existing in the current piano education,and then reflect on the current situation of domestic art education.

Poetic Justice: Novel Reading and the Perfection of Human Public Value

Taking novels as the breakthrough point,the American thinker,Martha C.Nussbaum,strongly criticizes the materialization of human beings by economic utilitarianism and legal economics,as well as the estrangement and indifference between human beings in the book Poetic Justice:The Literary Imagination and Public Life.Through being read,the novels enter into the field of public life,expand the area of human emotion,preach human justice and promote the perfection of human values.

Discussion of the Relationship between Fairness and Efficiency——Based on Rawls'“A Theory of Justice”

Since China’s reform and opening up,from the Third Plenary Session of the 14th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China that put forward"efficiency first and fairness"to the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China,"first distribution and redistribution must deal with the relationship between fairness and efficiency,and redistribution pays more attention to fairness"Distribution policy,in 2021,the tenth meeting of the Central Finance and Economics Committee clearly stated that it is necessary to promote common prosperity in stages.The relationship between fairness and efficiency has always been the basic principle and standard for the country to formulate policies,and it is also the core issue discussed by scholars.Both utilitarianism and Rawls'two principles of justice provide us with different perspectives to explore the relationship between fairness and efficiency.This article focuses on Rawls's critique of utilitarianism and the specific content of the two justice principles,and makes a simple discussion on the relationship between fairness and efficiency and its enlightenment on the formulation of distribution policies in our country.

The Relationship between Wang Yangming and Lu Xiangshan in the Light of‘On Eradicating the Root and Source of Evil’

This paper,based on Mencius’s ideas,makes a comparative study of Wang Yangming and Lu Xiangshan in the light of Wang’s“On Eradicating the Root and Source of Evil.”Both Lu and Wang are loyal inheritors of Mencius’s ideas. e author discusses Wang’s inheritance and development of Lu’s theory focusing on two propositions:one is that the intuitive mind is obscured by ma terial desire,and the other,that utilitarian ideas penetrate the innermost mind.Though Wang’s“On Eradicating the Root and Source of Evil”is inspired by Lu,it moves forward to expand Lu’s viewpoints and thinking,and to restructure the framework of his theory.

Problems and Solutions of Teachers'Evaluation Activities in Colleges and Universities in China

Teacher evaluation is the action guide of teachers,which is extremely important for the development of schools.The establishment of a scientific and effective evaluation for university teachers is the key step in adapting to the current"double first-class"backgromd in the construction of high-level teachers.Based on HabermasJ theory of communicative action,this study analyzes the shortcomings and the reasons behind the current evaluation activities of university teachers in China as well as explores the standardization of these evaluation activities to meet the needs of the connotative development of higher education.

Defending Moral Obligation: Duterte's Dauntless War Against Drugs

As the mainstream media describes Rodrigo Roa Duterte,the 16th President of the Republic of the Philippines,widespread generalizations emerged.He was the country's first Mindanaoan president and acquired popularity among Filipinos by working on platforms to reduce drug addiction,corruption,and criminality,and received 39 percent of the vote in the 2016 Presidential Election.Back on the year 2016,during the first Presidential Debate,Duterte had sworn that he will eliminate the extensive propagation of drugs in the country with his first six months of authority.With the advent of his presidential campaign,arises the issue on extra-judicial killings from his ruthless hunt for drug pushers and users which is highly criticized by the human rights devotees.This was the cornerstone of Duterte's presidential campaign and the crime solution hallmark of his 22-year period as mayor of Davao City.While the president's critics state that this is unjust and immoral,this paper argues that Duterte's radical politics is necessary in the lessening if not total eradication of criminality and corruption that the country had been experiencing.Using the lens of Deontological Ethics and Utilitarian Ethics,this paper tries to explain Duterte's radical politics and why it is needed in the contemporary Philippine society.

Ethical decision-making in older drivers during critical driving situations: An online experiment

The present study examined the impact of aging on ethical decision-making in simulated critical driving scenarios.204 participants from North America,grouped into two age groups(18–30 years and 65 years and above),were asked to decide whether their simulated automated vehicle should stay in or change from the current lane in scenarios mimicking the Trolley Problem.Each participant viewed a video clip rendered by the driving simulator at Old Dominion University and pressed the space-bar if they decided to intervene in the control of the simulated automated vehicle in an online experiment.Bayesian hierarchical models were used to analyze participants’responses,response time,and acceptability of utilitarian ethical decision-making.The results showed significant pedestrian placement,age,and time-to-collision(TTC)effects on participants’ethical decisions.When pedestrians were in the right lane,participants were more likely to switch lanes,indicating a utilitarian approach prioritizing pedestrian safety.Younger participants were more likely to switch lanes in general compared to older participants.The results imply that older drivers can maintain their ability to respond to ethically fraught scenarios with their tendency to switch lanes more frequently than younger counterparts,even when the tasks interacting with an automated driving system.The current findings may inform the development of decision algorithms for intelligent and connected vehicles by considering potential ethical dilemmas faced by human drivers across different age groups.

The Song Dynasty's Fiscal and Economic Policy and Its Social Economy

The fact that industrial and commercial taxation in the Song dynasty greatly exceeded agricultural taxation was unprecedented in previous dynasties.This is mainly explained by the Song government’s financial and economic policy which was dominated by industrial and commercial taxation,made good use of the laws and characteristics of market relations and the commodity economy in business operations,actively stimulated consumption and was clearly utilitarian.Under this policy,the rulers,in pursuit of huge profits,used state power and mobilized various resources to implement a monopolies system and a commercial tax system,which,in turn,helped develop the commodity money economy,expanded the scale of market exchange and promoted the high degree of development of the commodity economy of the time.The financial and economic policy of the Song dynasty showed the unique advantages of the imperial state’s intervention in the economy.It was this that distinguished the Song dynasty from other dynasties in terms of the prosperity of the commodity and monetary economy.

The Consolations of Boethius

The paper considers the account of happiness given in Boethius＇s Consolations of Philosophy. This account claims that happiness requires security of possession, and argues from this requirement to the conclusion that worldly goods, which of their nature cannot be securely possessed, cannot provide happiness. This argument is shown to depend on assuming a life-driven account of human motivation, rather than a goods-driven account of human motivation. The life-driven account, according to which voluntary actions are ultimately motivated by the pursuit of a certain kind of life, is defended against the goods-driven account, according to which actions are motivated by the pursuit of goods the enjoyment of which can only be episodes in a human life. It is claimed that Boethius is right in holding a life-driven account, and that his account of happiness follows from it.