真善美的价值统会--论方东美哲学思想的终极追求

方东美的哲学观认为哲学的意义在于引领个人的精神生命与人类文化去探索和实现“真善美的价值统会”。方东美构建的哲学形上学体系论述的是从“自然人”到“道德人”,再到永无止境的“真善美的最高价值统会”的人格超升过程。方东美赞扬“以真善美的价.值统会为中心”的中国哲学,批评“使人失去价值理想”的近代西方哲学。方东美哲学思想以真善美的价值统会为其终极追求,不仅揭示和体现了中国哲学的基本价值取向,而且具有“将中国哲学以哲学面目示人”的意义。

形上审美与价值同构——方东美生命美学的本体论解析

方东美的生命美学以美善价值重建为中心。为了给中国宇宙和人生中的价值属性寻求稳固的先验根基,突出中国文化的优势,他提出了"普遍生命"这一形上价值统会本体,建构了他的形上审美观和美善价值同构的美学理念。他的美学理念实现了对生命的深切观照,解决了人生的价值依托问题,把握了美学的终极意义。由于受柏拉图价值统会观的影响,其美学理念带有明显的西学特质。

美育启蒙论视野下的方东美审美价值观

20世纪前30年的中国美育在启蒙论主题下,展开为以审美工具论为基础的功利主义和以康德真善美价值三分为基础的非功利主义两种走向,并没有完成新民的美育目标。方东美的审美价值观则以维护真善美价值统一为最高目标,审美通过美以启真、美以携善、内在超越等方式呈现为价值统会的圆融之境。尽管方东美的审美价值观带有强烈的乌托邦色彩,但他以现代性危机作为言说背景的生命理想,对于现代美育的发展,仍然具有重要的启示意义。

Protection of architectural heritage: attitudes of local residents and visitors in Sirako, Greece

Architectural heritage comprises one o the most important elements of mountain settlements in Greece. It holds high cultural value, represents the tangible continuation of the past and forms the unique character and identity of each mountain region. Yet, controversy regarding funding for its preservation often arises. In this paper, we used two Contingent Valuation surveys to estimate the socia benefit deriving from protecting the traditiona architecture in the mountainous village of Sirako and through it, to examine perceptions and attitudes o local residents and visitors. Research findings revealed a strong social will in favor of the good's protection followed by high percentages of positive willingness to pay(WTP). However, WTP is significantly higher among residents. Cultura heritage value, of the good, appears to prevail, along with the environmental one. However, both residents and visitors pointed out that local heritage, if wellpreserved, will boost tourism development. Residents appeared to better recognize the true level o architectural decay, expressed higher apprehension for its protection and were willing to pay higher amount of money. Tourists, on the other side expressed high satisfaction for their visit, appreciated the beauty and serenity emerging from local built and natural environment and spent several days visiting the surrounding area. The longer they stayed and gotfamiliar with the village, the more willing they were to contribute to local heritage's protection. Percentages reflecting indifference for protecting architecture were extremely low. Yet, they were higher among tourists. Traditional architecture is considered as public good; an opinion resulting in an important percentage of visitors stating that national government should provide the necessary funding. In addition, the architecture appears to hold a high level of topicality. Those descending from Sirako or emotionally connected to it, of both social groups,turned out to be more concerned about the good and with a stronger sense of responsibility for it. Usevalue of the good holds high economic value, as well,while higher percentages of zero WTP appeared among non-users. Research findings revealed social attitudes and perceptions on what constitutes architectural heritage, in its cultural and economic frame. If taken under consideration, they may form useful drivers for local, heritage-based, sustainable development.

Value Creation of Business Process Management （BPM） and Managerial Accounting System （MAS）： A Case Study

This paper explores the value creation of business process management （BPM） and managerial accounting system （MAS） using a case study. The findings show that BPM shortens the management chain and increases the connections among functions in the organization by right reassignment. Accounting indicators in MAS provide necessary information about business processes, which assists performance evaluation in BPM, and meanwhile, incentive schemes give enough motives, which guide employees to take actions in accordance with the organizational strategies and processes＇ goals. The information effect and motive effect of MAS increase employees＇ work satisfaction and their cooperation with each other. In the end, the integration of BPM and MAS improves the organizational economic performance, thus creating value for the organization. The results explain the reason why so much BPM fails in practice, because right assignment, performance evaluation system, and incentive schemes constitute organizational architecture, which is critical to organizational value. Additionally, the value creation of BPM and MAS depends on their coordination with the external environment, the internal situation, and the organizational strategy. From the view of managerial accounting perspective, MAS not only changes with the organization development but also facilitates the organization development.

Traditional Architecture as the Medium of Public Ethical Value

Traditional Chinese architecture in the narrative of a system has existed more than 3,000 years. As the core values of the enlightenment function of social ethics, traditional architecture externalizes symbol of ＂state＂ sensual ethical echo. So metaphorical rules in architecture can combine with the normal life. Traditional architectural form as famous communication home Marshall McLuhan＇s ＂human extension＂, leads the order and the rules in the form of elevation. The spread of universal ethics, traditional architectural symmetry axis ceremony, and the adornment of the mythical thinking component, are traditional Chinese ethics of society to describe the core of creation through three points sequence structure constraint. The wisdom of metaphor in these ideas is the life gene of Chinese culture. In the construction of the contemporary social upheaval spreading vision, recognition of traditional architecture ethics through righteousness obviously has been recasting social ethics of ＂treatment＂.

The Economic Importance and Social Values of Traditional Aquaculture in Rural Sierra Leone

The economic viability and social value of traditional aquaculture in rural Sierra Leone were evaluated. The hypothesis tested was that traditional methods of farming fish in ponds were not economically viable, so farmers were investing their time/labour in less risky and more profitable livelihoods activities. The assumption in this assessment was that fish farming is an economic activity, and that for farmers to adopt or choose it over other livelihoods, the benefit-cost ratio of fish farming must be higher than that of alternative livelihoods. The main objective of the study was to assess why local farmers failed to adopt modem market oriented aquaculture production systems introduced by the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources in rural Sierra Leone. Two hundred farmers owning fishponds on family lands were interviewed using semi-structured questionnaires and farmers＇ responses were analyzed using statistical tools （SPSS 16.0）. The mean contributions of different livelihoods to total annual incomes of farmers and the social values they attached to these livelihoods were compared. Results of the study suggested that traditional fish fanning was economically viable across the range of pond sizes sampled; but the medium-sized ponds were more profitable than the smallest and largest ponds, and labour accounted for 70% of total annual production costs in the systems assessed. The average benefit-cost ratio of 2.3 for fish fanning was favorable compared with that of 0.83 for rice farming, which was ranked as most popular livelihood activity by farmers. The payback period for traditional aquaculture investments was less than five years using informal investment loans （without interest）, and was favorably compared with that for tree crops fanning, which was also popular among farmers. Additional benefits of fish fanning included social capital and maintenance of kinship relationships.

A Redemptive Analysis of Suffering

The notion of suffering carries with it aspects which are private and individual on the one hand, and social and lingual on the other. I would pay attention to the latter part of the suffering notion, where the notion of suffering is recognized to be primitive by almost all the theories of human values. This primitive character allows a commensurable basis on the basis of which most plural theories share something in common to talk objectively to each other. In this paper, I would like to offer three arguments in order to advance a thesis that one＇s suffering is redemptive of others. First, the conservation law of mass says that matter of a closed system can neither be created nor destroyed, although it may be differently rearranged. This may be applied to the experience of suffering, to allow the conservation law of suffering： My unjust self-interest costs pains in others to the level of the same amount but if I voluntarily suffer a sacrifice, others will have their pains lightened to the analogous level. Second, notion of yin-yang helps to support the redemptive thesis of suffering. The notion says that all things in the reality consist of two complementary opposite Capacities that interact within a greater whole, as part of a dynamic system. Then, my acceptance of suffering and the decrease of other＇s pain are two complementary capacities of one reality. Third, any person is responsible for his own act, so is a society as a whole. Then, as an individual restores his damaged person, when he commits a crime, by being suffered or punished, a society restores itself to its own proper state, when any member of the society is wronged, by suffering communally in one way or other.

Economic Valuation of Environmental Services： Increasing the Effectiveness of PES Schemes in Developing Countries？

Payments for ecosystem service （PES） schemes have spread all over developing countries in the last 20 years or so. PES schemes often have high opportunity costs in terms of foregone uses of goods and services offered by the environment. It is within this scope that economic evaluation of environmental goods and services plays a role. In this paper we surveyed articles and studies that report application of economic environmental valuation procedures in PES schemes. Special attention was paid to data collection and analysis, to theoretical robustness of its procedures and to the aggregation of estimated value. We also scrutinize how these estimates had been incorporated into PES schemes, in particularly in the assessment phase of these schemes. Empirical data from Brazil and other Latin American countries were used, particularly those in the Amazon Basis. Our results reveal a frequent overestimation of the values of ecosystem services calculated through the use of economic valuation methods. Values have been estimated by production function methods （opportunity cost, preventive expenditures, recovering cost or dose-response methods）. As a consequence, estimated values reflect much more willingness to accept compensation by supplier and rarely willingness to pay by consumer of these ecosystem services. Besides this distance between supply and demand, application of valuation methods did not account for problems such as uncertainty, risks, and lack of information. All these limitations have led to wrong decision-making.

Sustainability of Urban Lakes： Role of Values in Lake Governance in Ahmedabad, India

Lakes have different social, economical, and ecological values at different periods of societal development, which make them vulnerable to change. One of the ongoing discussions in urban lake governance in India is the revitalization of the urban lakes. The core challenge documented in the governance of urban lakes is to address and find balance in the changing and competing value systems. Effectively addressing the change （or priority） in the values linked to the governance systems is a major step toward sustainability of the urban lakes. There is still limited understanding of how the values of urban lakes are progressively linked to the social, ecological and economic values of the urban developments. The paper looks at the interactions and outcomes of the spatial and temporal dynamics of the urban lakes systems especially the values that sustain the institutional and ecological memory. The focus is on the role of values in urban lake governance. The multitier framework for analyzing social-ecological systems CSES） which is in developmental phase at Elinor Ostrom＇s Workshop is used as the guiding framework to build understanding of the urban lake governance in Ahmedabad, India and at the same time contribute to the development of the SES framework.

Study on the Value of ＂Education Involved by All Related People＂ in the Practice of the Socialist Core Values

The ideological and political education for students in institutions of higher learning is a complicated, systematic project. To unequivocally cultivate the socialist core values of these students and deeply influence their ideological understanding and behaviors, the concept of ＂education involved by all related people＂ is necessarily implemented in all aspects, and the joint force of ＂imparting knowledge and educating people＂ , ＂educating people by management＂ , and ＂educating people by service＂ is formed. As a result, the actual effectiveness of the ideological and political education is improved in institutions of higher learning.

The Cultural Discovery and Practical Implications of “Chinese Values”

The social reforms in China since the late 1970 s represent an arduous process in which the Chinese nation,in its own way,has reflected upon the many disadvantages of the ＂civilization of modernity,＂ and has explored,created and practiced ＂Chinese values,＂ pursuing and shaping new spiritual convictions and new（rational） value beliefs for its national culture.In a deeper sense,＂Chinese values＂ are endowed with a marked orientation toward practice and follow the logic of genuinely implementing society＇s ＂public values＂ on the basis of the intrinsic and organic integration of the personal and public and the national and cosmopolitan.This manifests the pursuit of a noble belief in justice and a commitment to a universal and genuine good life for the Chinese populace today.What ＂Chinese values＂ seek to forge is an image of ＂the Chinese＂ that manifests not only the disposition and breadth of vision of a contemporary ＂citizen of the world,＂ but also the fine traits of tolerance,benevolence,responsibility,and courage,as well as self-esteem,self-improvement,confidence,and self-reliance.