In the English-speaking world, the study of Chinese philosophy has been focused mainly on pre-Qin philosophy and Song-Ming neo-Confucianism. In comparison, contemporary Chinese philosophy, as an initial attempt to communicate with . . .

This paper aims at showing the significance in Roman Ingarden’s thinking of two often overlooked ontological concepts: Gestalt quality and harmonious unity. Ingarden understands Gestalt a derived quality that spr . . .

This paper offers a comparative study of two fundamental Confucian concepts, namely, “harmony” (he) and “coherence” (li). After presenting and interpreting the two characters – with reference to both classical thought and Neo-Confu . . .

This paper argues that the Chinese concept of harmony is exemplified in the historical process that resulted in the Chinese people and the geographic entity of China itself. The concept of harmony overcomes the dualism between identity an . . .

In this paper, I argue that the different understandings of “harmony”, which are rooted in ancient Greek and Chinese thought, can be recapitulated in the name of “dialectic harmony” and “ambiguous harmony” regarding the re . . .

Recent years have shown a rise of English-language scholarship exploring the relation between the Chinese concept of harmony and the Western concept of justice. This paper reconstructs the influential contemporary . . .

The concept of harmony does not play a very important role in contemporary analytic philosophy. In this paper, I argue that this peripheral status of the concept of harmony in analytic philosophy is not warranted. In fact, harmony might b . . .

The paper begins with the assumption that in order to explain the efficacy of harmony as an organizing force in human and natural affairs we must pay attention to the dynamic features characteristic of the growth and maintenanc . . .

Harmony is a central notion in Asian culture. It appears as a symbol on the Korean national flag; it is one of the names that the Japanese people used to call their nation; it is a justificatory principle in Chinese politics a . . .

This paper tries to explore Nāgārjuna’s śūnyatāand its implication towards vipaśyanāmeditation or insight perception. Allthe mundane objects of this world are full of suffering. Nāgārjuna was the systematic propounder of Mā . . .

The small, remote country of Bhutan is the only democratic, mixed market country in the world that is rooted constitutionally and culturally in Buddhist principles. As such, it provides an authentic basis for theoretical and empirical com . . .

The formation of ideas is a universal characteristic of humankind. However, the nature of ideation and the ensuing convictions is fraught with ontological and ethical implications. This article seeks to explore the issues . . .

The term ‘indigenous’, since late 20thcentury, is being extensively used to denote people and literatures, in addition to its previous function of classifying flora and fauna. These people, under international and national legislations are referred as . . .

Neurophysiologist Benjamin Libet’s EEG experiments tracking the temporal occurrence of brain events leading to an endogenous voluntary action significantly demonstrated that the subject becomes conscious of her intention to act later . . .

Like all other beings in the World, human being has been (and will be) essentially a part of nature. The relationship between Man and Nature, therefore, has been the subject of contemplation for mankind since the pre- . . .

Given the fact that democracy has come to be accepted as a framework for good governance in most parts of the world and given the fact that most states in Africa are multi-ethnic in nature, which presupposes some contestations in . . .

In the process of acquiring language young people learn about their culture.Through listening and later imitating speech, they learn not only the words to label the world around them, but also the concepts and values to make sense of it. Stories of al . . .

The customary way of interpreting the dialogue between Arjuna and Kṛṣṇa in the Bhagavad-Gita is to consider it merely as an expression of the fear of the diffident Arjuna, who is depicted by almost all the commentators as being scared of fighting the . . .

With the time, effort, and cost involved in developing self-managing teams, we conducted an empirical study of the private club industry to help determine whether differences exist in terms of organizational tenure and commitment between managers who . . .

This paper consists of four parts: (i) The first part develops a phenomenological description of power as an interpersonal relationship of influence of a human being over some other human being and aim to show that the two fundaments of any ethics of . . .

For over a decade, Confucian studies have gone through several evolutions and developments. From 2010 to today, this area has delivered a number of the fine scholars. This special issue of JET will examine the works of those Confucian scholars who hav . . .

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, followed by a series of Chinese exclusion laws, barred the Chinese from coming to this country for half a century. While existing scholarship on this topic has focused on American racial politics, this article docume . . .

A developmental review of cognitive science and philosophy of cognition reveals that over the sixty years since cognitive science began Leibniz’ theory of perception has been largely ignored. It has been systematically overlooked that Leibniz offers a . . .

A pilot survey was conducted on 18 predominantly upper class Egyptian women ages 23 to 47 years. Questions on demographic status, dietary habits, and health status were asked. Anthropometric measurements of height, weight, waist and hip circumferences . . .

In the last 25 years, not-for-profit organizations as a whole appear to have become larger and less government subsidized. Although eleemosynary institutions represent a significant and growing sector of the U.S. economy, few would doubt that charitie . . .

The lobster (Homarus americanus) fishery in the Gulf of Maine is being threatened by the taking of ovigerous lobsters with the subsequent removal of their eggs by dipping their tails in a sea water and bleach solution. Solutions equal to or greater th . . .

Through the Deleuzian analogy of the nomadic war machine, this paper seeks to tap into Rumi's writings to uncover potential points of contact. In so doing, what emerges is the war machine of love that works to awaken a powerful desire to seek transfor . . .

Together with such factors as training required, degree of initiative, responsibility for product or service, supervision of others, safety, working conditions and other considerations weighed in the evaluation of jobs, is the possibility of assessing . . .

The value of language lies in expressing knowledge and that of knowledge in causing incentive to action. Different from language as representation and reference, the discussion herein takes language is expression that expresses itself its own nature f . . .

Ancient Indian tradition extols solitariness. It considers solitariness as a necessary precondition for a spiritual well-being and enlightenment. Every aspirant should pass through the two stages of solitary life vanaprastha and saṃnyāsa in one’s spir . . .

The doctrine of forum non conveniens is an equitable doctrine that allows a trial court to decline jurisdiction over transitory causes of action that can more fairly be tried in another state or country. However, it raises issues concerning the federa . . .

Exploring traditional Chinese gastronomic culture in terms of its interdisciplinary expression and values, this article argues that eating and drinking, as sources of creative imagination and aesthetic pleasure, are integral to the creative process in . . .

Does Seifert's personalism hold water? (1) The question is rather provocative but my answer will be clear: yes, it does. Not only it holds water but can be continued and stands in need of being continued. This paper will put Seifert within the phenome . . .

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether trends in banking mergers between January 1994 and October 1995 are different from previous periods. Specifically, the study focused on greatly increased acquisition prices and interstate consolidati . . .

Are there material and moral connections between wealth and moral values? Do people require a certain level of material well-being to be moral? Can people choose freely to abide by moral values when their physical or material well-being are in jeopard . . .

The essay first distinguishes the positive sense of cosmopolitanism from exist other concepts of cosmopolitanism. It explores whether global peace and cosmopolitanism are merely big illusions. Doing so, it examines S. Huntington’s view on clash of civ . . .

The purpose of this article is to present an approach to using a programmable calculator to compute concepts in one branch of abstract mathematics, Group Theory. A number of algorithms and related codes are designed to get access to such concepts like . . .

In "Religious Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Russia: A Model for Change," historian Elise Wirtschafter uses the teachings of Metropolitan of Moscow Platon (Levshin, 1737-1812) to raise questions about educational reform and technological developm . . .

DSpace can be problematic for those interested in tracking download and pageview statistics granularly. Some libraries have implemented code to track events on websites and some have experimented with using Google Tag Manager to automate event tagging . . .

Philosophy begins with some problem caused by some or the other sense of illusion, doubt, confusion, inconsistency, incompleteness, etc., we confront when we become reflective or self-conscious of in a theorization, or conceptualization on a concept a . . .

Starting with a decisive conceptual move--a differentiation among statehood, democratic constitution and civic solidarity, this essay explores the idea of a political constitution for a world society. It puts forth the non-state concept of a legally c . . .

Through the translations of William Jones and Ezra Pound et al, She King or Poems, has become a supermeme in English and American literatures. However, their translations only make an imperfect reflex of the Chinese art due to their neglect of proper . . .

Very long span suspension bridges are flexible structural systems. The introduction of these cable suspended structures has been profoundly enhanced by the development of new structural materials and computer methods of analysis. Cable suspended syste . . .

Only recently have women had the opportunity to hold positions of leadership in unions. In fact, by 1993 there were only three women presidents of national unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (A . . .

More and more students with learning disabilities are enrolling in college-level programs. It is imperative that university professors are educated regarding the characteristics and accommodations for this diverse group of students.

In spite of differences in the conditions created by the advancement of science and technology modern man is very much similar to primitive man and animals. He also takes birth and dies like them. He also lives in a particular space and time and feels . . .

Emerson wrote with excitement of his discovery of “God-within” in his poem “Gnothi Seauton”: “There doth sit the Infinite embosomed in a man.” He furthermore preached in his sermon “The Genuine Man” that “the essential man” dwells in the innermost sou . . .

Of special interest is whether Russian laws, arguably discriminatory to its homosexual population, can figure into an argument that ultimately calls for some action to counteract this discrimination. Many calls to action invoke a comparison with the O . . .

Once again we encounter the Jiashen 甲申 year.2 Three hundred sixty years ago, in 1644, the 21st year of the sexagenary cycle of the lunar calendar, known as the Jiashen year, China underwent cataclysmic change. An old dynasty perished, and a new one di . . .

The relationship between the application software development process and its enabling foundation, software development infrastructure (SDI), is discussed everywhere in the literature, but this discussion is very disjointed. Yet the failure to coheren . . .

History can teach people a lot. Thus, it is necessary to teach history, and a teacher comes to the natural question how to use history in teaching. It is fairly clear how to do this when history itself is the subject of teaching or for such d isciplin . . .

Mohandas Gandhi’s interpretation of Hinduism was key to his practice of nonviolence. His influence on Western thought is most often represented by Martin Luther King Jr.’s Christian appropriation of Gandhi to support the Civil Rights Movement. America . . .

This article connects literature in cross-cultural psychology with the study of Taijiquan. Cross-cultural psychology has found two main differences between the typical East Asian and Westerner. East Asians emphasize an interdependent self-concept and . . .

Soseki’s set of short stories Ten Nights’ Dreams (Yume ju ya, 1908) is often viewed as a metaphorical representation of the late Meiji period, which was a time of big changes in Japan on many various levels. While being a beginning of a new chapter of . . .

This paper studies the observed behavior of the U.S. dollar within the theoretical scope of the exchange rate models as defined under the title of “asset market” view. The monetary approach and portfolio-balance approach models are tested over the sam . . .

IN THIS SPECIAL literary issue of JET, the featured articles introduce a spectrum of issues and perspectives, but nonetheless share a focus. The authors reflect on how literature, with its otherness and in search of otherness, plays a vital role in sh . . .

Can we ever justly critique the norms and practices of another culture? When activists or policy-makers decide that one culture’s traditional practice is harmful and needs to be eradicated, does it matter whether they are members of that culture? Give . . .

Medea is an intriguing figure in Greek mythology who has been portrayed in a variety of ways by ancient Greek and Roman authors. One dominating feature in all her stories is her identity as an outsider who enters the mainland Greece through her marria . . .

The study of Chinese philosophy in the English-speaking world has largely focused on ethical and political theories. In comparison, Chinese metaphysics—here understood primarily as theories regarding the nature, components, and operating principles of . . .

Many civil engineering students work as interns to get practical experiences in planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities. They are often challenged at their workplace to manage data associated with various location spec . . .

An nxn matrix A = [aij] is symmetric if aij = aji, and A is nonnegative (A ³ 0) ifaij ³ 0 for 1 £ i, j £ n. For a nonsymmetric matrix A, the arithmetic symmetrization M(A) is defined by M(A) = [mij]. Where mij = 1/2 (aij + aji). The Perron root r(A) o . . .

Wang Guowei’s 王國維 (1887-1927) understanding of the idea of tragedy was inspired by two German philosophers—Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. It is generally held that the pessimistic philosophy of Schopenhauer plays a fundamental role in Wang’s borrowing fr . . .

Human life is a process of learning and cultivation to reach wisdom, and it for this purpose that education, since the dawn of civilization and culture, is seen as the highest value system. Education is not concerned only with the cultivation of skill . . .

Advances in space sensor technology have radically transformed the capabilities of our cartographic institutions. Space sensors are imaging the Earth’s surface with higher resolution year after year. Algorithms for sensor modeling are becoming more ac . . .

This article surveys the empirical testing of discretionary disclosure theory. Currently, few studies achieve strict controlled tests of identifiable disclosure models. This occurs primarily because live stock market data fail to describe the analytic . . .

This essay explores the concept of ‘religious other,’ indicating the metaphysical, cognitive, ethical, and political challenges that the religious other presents. In doing so, it draws a distinction between religious other which is a legitimate object . . .

The essay distinguishes two kinds of ultimate reality, ontological and cosmological. The ontological kind is whatever answers to the question of why there is anything determinate at all. Three great thematic answers have been developed in the world‟s . . .

Through discussing issues related to the play's subgenre(s) and especially alterity, I will present what I see as the ambivalent discourses at work in The Tragedy of Mariam which make it almost impossible to come up with a conclusive verdict on the su . . .

The self-transformation has been one of the most important ideals of the human morality, and also a fundamental goal of the various secular thinkers, from Confucius and Socrates to many later Eastern and Western philosophers. Wang Yangming and Schleie . . .

Educators confront many issues when considering moving to distance-learning modalities for instruction. One of those issues, faculty compensation, is addressed in this paper. The paper reports the results of a survey of College of Business Deans throu . . .

While it appears that interventions in exchange markets can and have been successful during the floating rate period, it has been so only in isolated circumstances and periods, and only for very short periods of time. If intervention has no effect or . . .

Since its inauguration in 2011, Journal of East-West Thought (JET) has published 90 articles and book reviews from a wide range of celebrated scholars and authors throughout the world. JET is dedicated to advancing constructive, creative, critical, th . . .

This paper explores a comparison between Heraclitus’ notion of Logos and Lao-Tzu’s notion of Tao(Dao). Since such comparison is not void of controversy, because of the spatial and cultural distance between the authors and the fragmentary nature of the . . .

Non-random complicated motions can exhibit a very rapid growth of errors and, despite perfect determinism, they inhibit the pragmatic ability to render accurate long term predictions. Technically, such non-random motions are termed “chaotic.” The geom . . .

Śūnyatā has been one of the most misunderstood terms in the history of philosophy. It has been conceived sometimes as an Absolute and sometimes as pure nothingness. Often it has been identified with truth and most often it has been understood as falsi . . .

Understanding an indivisible cognition through the analytic part has its own beauty that we can call analytic skill, but that must aim at clarity and conception of the cognition which is a whole approached through individual steps. Composite forms hav . . .

Much has been written over the past decade regarding public school reform. One university, Cal Poly Pomona, has responded by supporting a unique highschool on its campus. The Los Angeles County International Polytechnic HighSchool prepares graduates t . . .

This study examined the attitudes of hospitality administrators on the relative desirability of various qualifications of faculty, including doctoral degrees and industry experience. The study used a survey instrument that was designed to address the . . .

Western philosophers and scholars have long maintained the assumption that there is a gulf of difference between “Western rational thinking” and “Eastern irrational, mystical-metaphysical brooding” (cf. Beinorius 2005; Carrette & King 2005; Halbfass 1 . . .