Human experience can best be understood in the framework of collective social relations. Like any other tie, the mother-daughter relationship is forged not in isolation but informed by cultural, historical, and social...Human experience can best be understood in the framework of collective social relations. Like any other tie, the mother-daughter relationship is forged not in isolation but informed by cultural, historical, and social values, circumstances, and practices. The twentieth century has witnessed the greatest changes in world history. As an outcome of the noticeable shift in gender ideologies in the last half of that century, modern mothers and daughters struggled to experience a union, a bond, an understanding of themselves and the world around them. Clash of tradition and modernity in ideals and mores can be held accountable for the consequential neurotic development of the psyche in twentieth century mothers and daughters. Doris Lessing＇s writings reflect the way in which these complex changes in society affect family relationships. Her first novel of the Children of Violence series, Martha Quest, is an apt study of a mother and her daughter＇s struggle with their newly defined roles in society. This paper will seek to examine the conflicts that are encountered in the wake of such adjustments by contemporary mothers and daughters. In order to do so, the study will focus on an exploration of the kind of issues that Martha Quest and May Quest experience in Lessing＇s Martha Quest through approaches available in works by Carl Jung on his theory of the ＂mother complex＂.展开更多
Diversity or pluralism in values has been widely recognized as a major feature of our times both intemationally and domestically, and China is no exception, where this phenomenon is regarded as a major reason for the ...Diversity or pluralism in values has been widely recognized as a major feature of our times both intemationally and domestically, and China is no exception, where this phenomenon is regarded as a major reason for the country＇s efforts to pursue the goal of a “harmonious society” at home and the goal of a “harmonious world” abroad. Against this background, many people show great interest in the idea of “overlapping consensus” proposed by John gawls. On the basis of a careful reading of different interpretations of this idea, or the “overlapping consensus” on the idea of“ overlapping consensus,” we can say that there are three levels of “overlapping consensus. ”At the first level, people with different positions treat each other with the same reasonable attitude. At the second level, people holding different values support the same norms on the basis of their respective values or by taking each other＇s perspectives into the moral discourse. At the third level, people who currently hold different “moral sources”of the shared norms are nonetheless ready to engage in a common leaming process that aims for a “fusion of horizons＂”in the future. Overlapping consensuses at all these levels should not only be discussed in political philosophy, or discovered in political culture, but also constructed in political practice. This means that we should try our best to provide actual conditions for overlapping consensuses in social and institutional reality, and at the same time avoid reducing the validity of any type of overlapping consensus to its facticity.展开更多
文摘Human experience can best be understood in the framework of collective social relations. Like any other tie, the mother-daughter relationship is forged not in isolation but informed by cultural, historical, and social values, circumstances, and practices. The twentieth century has witnessed the greatest changes in world history. As an outcome of the noticeable shift in gender ideologies in the last half of that century, modern mothers and daughters struggled to experience a union, a bond, an understanding of themselves and the world around them. Clash of tradition and modernity in ideals and mores can be held accountable for the consequential neurotic development of the psyche in twentieth century mothers and daughters. Doris Lessing＇s writings reflect the way in which these complex changes in society affect family relationships. Her first novel of the Children of Violence series, Martha Quest, is an apt study of a mother and her daughter＇s struggle with their newly defined roles in society. This paper will seek to examine the conflicts that are encountered in the wake of such adjustments by contemporary mothers and daughters. In order to do so, the study will focus on an exploration of the kind of issues that Martha Quest and May Quest experience in Lessing＇s Martha Quest through approaches available in works by Carl Jung on his theory of the ＂mother complex＂.
文摘Diversity or pluralism in values has been widely recognized as a major feature of our times both intemationally and domestically, and China is no exception, where this phenomenon is regarded as a major reason for the country＇s efforts to pursue the goal of a “harmonious society” at home and the goal of a “harmonious world” abroad. Against this background, many people show great interest in the idea of “overlapping consensus” proposed by John gawls. On the basis of a careful reading of different interpretations of this idea, or the “overlapping consensus” on the idea of“ overlapping consensus,” we can say that there are three levels of “overlapping consensus. ”At the first level, people with different positions treat each other with the same reasonable attitude. At the second level, people holding different values support the same norms on the basis of their respective values or by taking each other＇s perspectives into the moral discourse. At the third level, people who currently hold different “moral sources”of the shared norms are nonetheless ready to engage in a common leaming process that aims for a “fusion of horizons＂”in the future. Overlapping consensuses at all these levels should not only be discussed in political philosophy, or discovered in political culture, but also constructed in political practice. This means that we should try our best to provide actual conditions for overlapping consensuses in social and institutional reality, and at the same time avoid reducing the validity of any type of overlapping consensus to its facticity.
