{"title":"On the Status of \"Things-in-Themselves\" in Kant's Critical Philosophy","authors":"Chen Shi-fang","doi":"10.1017/9780511624834.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511624834.002","url":null,"abstract":"Kant's distinction between \"appearances\" and \"things-in-themselves\" asserts the existence of \"things-in-themselves\",but due to the limitation of our rationality,we cannot form any knowledge about it,then how can we know their existence,i.e.how to get \"other shore from this shore.\" Therefore,some critics holds that this concept by Kant is the concession to a dogmatically rooted extra-mental reality of a philosophy and is no in consistent to his spirit of critical philosophy.This understanding is wrong,as Kant's things-in-themselves concept is not independent part from the sphere of entity in thinking,but a thinking device,and an inevitable assumption when we human beings think about daily experience.Only by this can we run our concept mechanism,in which the tendency of objectivity plays a vital role.","PeriodicalId":255686,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Taiyuan Normal University","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134638754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Role of the School","authors":"Zhao Miao-miao","doi":"10.4324/9781315407982-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315407982-6","url":null,"abstract":"The role of the school and the function of education are two different but related concepts.The role of the school can be classified into that of education and non-education,and the derivative roles from the two.The educational role of the school includes making the individual socialized and individualized;its non-educational role,or instrumental role,includes serving the macroscopic environment of the society,serving the surrounding microscopic environment,and seeking individual development;the derivative role mainly refers to the accessory effects from educational and non-educational roles.The exertion of the role of the school is conditioned by three major factors: the country,the society and the school proper.The school should fully exert its education function,on the basis of which deals with the relations between the single and plural roles by conditionally choose and tend other roles.Only in this way can the overall effect of the roles of the school be correct.","PeriodicalId":255686,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Taiyuan Normal University","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133436122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding on \"Peace\"","authors":"SI De-kun","doi":"10.4324/9781315880136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315880136","url":null,"abstract":"Peace has been mans finest desire ever since ancient times,and it has become the most frequently used word in the mainstream speech system nowadays that few would neglect its significance for the existence and development of mankind.However,mans cognition of peace is rather illegible and confused.Not only does it possess different connotation in different cultural context,but it is indeed difficult to give an accurate definition to the word of peace.","PeriodicalId":255686,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Taiyuan Normal University","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125318818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}