Grassroots social governance, as the foundation and cornerstone of national governance, is concerned with the most direct, realistic, and urgent problems that the people want to resolve. However, there are some problems in the grassroots People’s Court’s participation in grassroots social governance, such as insufficient team capacity, imperfect working mechanisms, inadequate judicial confirmation, and poor role of the court. To solve those issues, solutions are proposed in the paper.
{"title":"Thoughts on the Participation of Grassroots People’s Courts in Grassroots Social Governance","authors":"","doi":"10.22158/jrph.v6n1p54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22158/jrph.v6n1p54","url":null,"abstract":"Grassroots social governance, as the foundation and cornerstone of national governance, is concerned with the most direct, realistic, and urgent problems that the people want to resolve. However, there are some problems in the grassroots People’s Court’s participation in grassroots social governance, such as insufficient team capacity, imperfect working mechanisms, inadequate judicial confirmation, and poor role of the court. To solve those issues, solutions are proposed in the paper.","PeriodicalId":229607,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Philosophy and History","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127154764","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}
Russia is a peculiar country. The Russian people is governed by a president who violates the constitution of the country, embezzling enormous sums of money and has begun a war with big losses. How did it then come to all of this?
{"title":"Why Is Russia Backward?","authors":"J. Lane","doi":"10.22158/jrph.v6n2p68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22158/jrph.v6n2p68","url":null,"abstract":"Russia is a peculiar country. The Russian people is governed by a president who violates the constitution of the country, embezzling enormous sums of money and has begun a war with big losses. How did it then come to all of this?","PeriodicalId":229607,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Philosophy and History","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130473550","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":"Identifying the Failure to Recognize, Acknowledge, and Correct the Epidemic of Vitamin D Deficiency/Infantile Rickets (VDD/IR) and Its Role in False Accusations of Abuse in Infants","authors":"Steven C. Gabaeff","doi":"10.22158/jrph.v6n2p1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22158/jrph.v6n2p1","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>None</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":229607,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Philosophy and History","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131578598","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}
ChatGPT, an AI (artificial intelligence) model developed by OpenAI was posed various philosophical questions about the Anthropocene and the Plasticene. The model opined that the naming of the Anthropocene holds significance, that the term Plasticene accurately encapsulates contemporary realities, that the expansion of the concept, such as through the lens of plastic ecology, will foster further study, that plastic rocks are important from the perspective of the Earth’s environment, and that although no one sees the Anthropocene in the traditional sense, future scientists may glean insights into the impacts of humankind’s activities from geological samples. From these moderate responses, we may have the utility to modify our opinions and create opportunities for novel anthropological questions.
{"title":"Philosophical Questions Concerning the Anthropocene and the Plasticene to ChatGPT and the Moderate Perspectives Derived from Their Responses","authors":"S. Furukuma","doi":"10.22158/jrph.v6n1p46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22158/jrph.v6n1p46","url":null,"abstract":"ChatGPT, an AI (artificial intelligence) model developed by OpenAI was posed various philosophical questions about the Anthropocene and the Plasticene. The model opined that the naming of the Anthropocene holds significance, that the term Plasticene accurately encapsulates contemporary realities, that the expansion of the concept, such as through the lens of plastic ecology, will foster further study, that plastic rocks are important from the perspective of the Earth’s environment, and that although no one sees the Anthropocene in the traditional sense, future scientists may glean insights into the impacts of humankind’s activities from geological samples. From these moderate responses, we may have the utility to modify our opinions and create opportunities for novel anthropological questions.","PeriodicalId":229607,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Philosophy and History","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125576606","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}
It is well known that the problem of finity and infinity is the basic problem of mathematics, and it is also the basic problem of Philosophy. From the perspective of philosophy and mathematics, this paper comprehensively reviews and analyzes Hegel’s view of dialectical infinity, introduces Engels’discussion on infinity, deeply analyzes the characteristics of the thought of actual infinity, and points out: Hegel’s thought of real infinity is completely different from the thought of actual infinity, the Being of infinity (objective infinity) is not equal to the completed infinity (subjective infinity), the mathematical limit is a real infinity, and real infinity is the inner law of infinite things and truth; the view of actual infinity views the objective material world from the viewpoint of static rather than motion, denying the contradiction between finity and infinity, so it is actually a downright idealist. In this paper, the author puts forward the Infinite Exchange Paradox, which strongly questions the idea of actual infinity in Hilbert Hotel Problem, and points out the internal irreconcilable contradiction in the idea of actual infinity. At the same time, we made a detailed comparison of Hegel’s view of infinity and the view of mathematical infinity, and on this basis, the author gives a complete definition of the view of dialectical infinity: abandoning the wrong aspects of the potential infinity and actual infinity, and actively absorbing correct aspects of both, that is, not only to recognize the existence and knowability of infinite objectivity, but also to admit the imcompletion of infinite process. The reexcavation of Hegel’s view of dialectical infinity and the criticism of the actual infinity thought aim to find possible philosophical solutions for Russell’s Paradox and the problem of Continuum Hypothesis.
{"title":"On Hegel’s View of Dialectical Infinity","authors":"Zhang Hong","doi":"10.22158/jrph.v6n1p8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22158/jrph.v6n1p8","url":null,"abstract":"It is well known that the problem of finity and infinity is the basic problem of mathematics, and it is also the basic problem of Philosophy. From the perspective of philosophy and mathematics, this paper comprehensively reviews and analyzes Hegel’s view of dialectical infinity, introduces Engels’discussion on infinity, deeply analyzes the characteristics of the thought of actual infinity, and points out: Hegel’s thought of real infinity is completely different from the thought of actual infinity, the Being of infinity (objective infinity) is not equal to the completed infinity (subjective infinity), the mathematical limit is a real infinity, and real infinity is the inner law of infinite things and truth; the view of actual infinity views the objective material world from the viewpoint of static rather than motion, denying the contradiction between finity and infinity, so it is actually a downright idealist. In this paper, the author puts forward the Infinite Exchange Paradox, which strongly questions the idea of actual infinity in Hilbert Hotel Problem, and points out the internal irreconcilable contradiction in the idea of actual infinity. At the same time, we made a detailed comparison of Hegel’s view of infinity and the view of mathematical infinity, and on this basis, the author gives a complete definition of the view of dialectical infinity: abandoning the wrong aspects of the potential infinity and actual infinity, and actively absorbing correct aspects of both, that is, not only to recognize the existence and knowability of infinite objectivity, but also to admit the imcompletion of infinite process. The reexcavation of Hegel’s view of dialectical infinity and the criticism of the actual infinity thought aim to find possible philosophical solutions for Russell’s Paradox and the problem of Continuum Hypothesis.","PeriodicalId":229607,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Philosophy and History","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131588109","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":"The Future of Design? Review of EveryRealm’s The Row, Impossible Architecture in the Metaverse","authors":"Kristin Barry","doi":"10.22158/jrph.v6n1p4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22158/jrph.v6n1p4","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>None</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":229607,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Philosophy and History","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124243748","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}
The importance of morphological study is emphasized in natural sciences. In morphological studies, one synthesizes all the available observed facts, sequencing them in terms of causes and effects under a specific principle. It can provide not only an opportunity of breakthrough, but also the foundation of a significant theoretical research. It is the stage where creativity and innovativeness can most clearly be displayed.
{"title":"Need for Morphological Study in Natural Sciences","authors":"S. Akasofu","doi":"10.22158/jrph.v6n1p1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22158/jrph.v6n1p1","url":null,"abstract":"The importance of morphological study is emphasized in natural sciences. In morphological studies, one synthesizes all the available observed facts, sequencing them in terms of causes and effects under a specific principle. It can provide not only an opportunity of breakthrough, but also the foundation of a significant theoretical research. It is the stage where creativity and innovativeness can most clearly be displayed.","PeriodicalId":229607,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Philosophy and History","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126592211","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}
As much as money has always seemed to rule world, in reality many other criteria have really determined human life providing meaning, guidance, and relevance, such as the quest for happiness. Happiness can be expressed in many different ways and finds expression in a myriad of ways, including through literature. Hence, we need to differentiate between spiritual and material happiness, and thus can establish significant concepts about the various layers of the meaning of life. Only a Humanities-based study program can offer relevant perspectives, as we need the teachings from the past in order to cope with the issues of today and tomorrow. This paper draws on a selection of major literary and philosophical contributions from late antiquity to the fifteenth century to illustrate this most important insight, which redirects our attention to the Humanities as one of the most central study areas in the academy today. As evanescent as the quest for happiness might be, ultimately there proves to be no other more important topic in all of human existence.
{"title":"The Quest for Happiness: From Boethius to Marie de France and Heinrich Kaufringer The Meaning of the Humanities Today and in the Future","authors":"A. Classen","doi":"10.22158/jrph.v5n4p41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22158/jrph.v5n4p41","url":null,"abstract":"As much as money has always seemed to rule world, in reality many other criteria have really determined human life providing meaning, guidance, and relevance, such as the quest for happiness. Happiness can be expressed in many different ways and finds expression in a myriad of ways, including through literature. Hence, we need to differentiate between spiritual and material happiness, and thus can establish significant concepts about the various layers of the meaning of life. Only a Humanities-based study program can offer relevant perspectives, as we need the teachings from the past in order to cope with the issues of today and tomorrow. This paper draws on a selection of major literary and philosophical contributions from late antiquity to the fifteenth century to illustrate this most important insight, which redirects our attention to the Humanities as one of the most central study areas in the academy today. As evanescent as the quest for happiness might be, ultimately there proves to be no other more important topic in all of human existence.","PeriodicalId":229607,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Philosophy and History","volume":"261 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122688641","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}
The Covid-19 pandemic struck Uganda like a storm. On 18 March 2020, President Museveni ordered the closure of schools and suspended religious gatherings, public rallies and cultural meetings with effect from 20 March. This was aimed at safeguarding the right to health in general, and the right to life in particular, of all Ugandans. By 30 June 2020, Uganda had not registered a single Covid-19 death and had had less than 1 000 infections. The Covid-19 pandemic, however, created great panic among the leadership of Uganda’s neoliberal regime. For three decades, the Ugandan state has deliberately underfunded the health sector, using the neoliberal logic that the market will address the challenges of the health sector. The state has treated economic and social rights as mere aspirations and not as genuine human entitlements. Museveni’s regime has rejected pleas from civil society organisations to allocate 15% of the budget to the health sector, as per the Abuja Declaration. The New Public Management philosophy of neoliberalism advocates for public hospitals and health facilities to be run like private-sector enterprises that employ fewer personnel in order to cut the costs of salaries and wage expenses. This article argues that the Ugandan state violated the right to health of Ugandans during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown. It contends that the ruthless enforcement of the lockdown in Uganda in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic aimed to protect the neoliberal state from embarrassment occasioned by the prioritisation of markets over people’s social and economic rights.
{"title":"Protecting the Deity Called Neoliberalism from Shame: Uganda’s 2020 Covid-19 Lockdown and Violations of the Right to Health","authors":"Kizito Michael George","doi":"10.22158/jrph.v5n4p17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22158/jrph.v5n4p17","url":null,"abstract":"The Covid-19 pandemic struck Uganda like a storm. On 18 March 2020, President Museveni ordered the closure of schools and suspended religious gatherings, public rallies and cultural meetings with effect from 20 March. This was aimed at safeguarding the right to health in general, and the right to life in particular, of all Ugandans. By 30 June 2020, Uganda had not registered a single Covid-19 death and had had less than 1 000 infections. The Covid-19 pandemic, however, created great panic among the leadership of Uganda’s neoliberal regime. For three decades, the Ugandan state has deliberately underfunded the health sector, using the neoliberal logic that the market will address the challenges of the health sector. The state has treated economic and social rights as mere aspirations and not as genuine human entitlements. Museveni’s regime has rejected pleas from civil society organisations to allocate 15% of the budget to the health sector, as per the Abuja Declaration. The New Public Management philosophy of neoliberalism advocates for public hospitals and health facilities to be run like private-sector enterprises that employ fewer personnel in order to cut the costs of salaries and wage expenses. This article argues that the Ugandan state violated the right to health of Ugandans during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown. It contends that the ruthless enforcement of the lockdown in Uganda in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic aimed to protect the neoliberal state from embarrassment occasioned by the prioritisation of markets over people’s social and economic rights.","PeriodicalId":229607,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Philosophy and History","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123890658","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}
The rapid development of image media today has been reinforcing what Guy Debord argued as society of spectacle. Ubiquitous visual advertising marks that spectacle has invaded diverse aspects of today’s life. The alienated labor relations proposed by Marx are once again simulated into a pseudo-desire structure guided by consumption symbols. Robert J. Sawyer’s Golden Fleece is even set in a post-human world where a society of spectacle has achieved its full maturity. Seeing from Guy Debord’s theory of spectacle society, this paper analyzes how spectacle seizes hegemony over human in future post-human world by means of coercive monologues and history-denying. Moreover, this paper further liberates science fiction from the anthropocentric perspective and discusses the identity of artificial intelligence in post-human era.
今天图像媒体的快速发展已经强化了居伊·德波所说的景观社会。无处不在的视觉广告标志着景观已经侵入了当今生活的各个方面。马克思提出的异化劳动关系再一次被模拟成一种以消费符号为导向的伪欲望结构。罗伯特·j·索耶(Robert J. Sawyer)的《金羊毛》(Golden Fleece)甚至设定在一个景观社会已经完全成熟的后人类世界。本文从居伊·德博的景观社会理论出发,分析了景观如何在未来的后人类世界中,通过强制性的独白和否定历史的方式来夺取对人类的霸权。进一步将科幻小说从人类中心主义的视角中解放出来,探讨后人类时代人工智能的身份。
{"title":"Frankenstein’s Revenge: Hegemony of Post-Human Spectacles in Golden Fleece","authors":"Yanling Li","doi":"10.22158/jrph.v5n4p6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22158/jrph.v5n4p6","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid development of image media today has been reinforcing what Guy Debord argued as society of spectacle. Ubiquitous visual advertising marks that spectacle has invaded diverse aspects of today’s life. The alienated labor relations proposed by Marx are once again simulated into a pseudo-desire structure guided by consumption symbols. Robert J. Sawyer’s Golden Fleece is even set in a post-human world where a society of spectacle has achieved its full maturity. Seeing from Guy Debord’s theory of spectacle society, this paper analyzes how spectacle seizes hegemony over human in future post-human world by means of coercive monologues and history-denying. Moreover, this paper further liberates science fiction from the anthropocentric perspective and discusses the identity of artificial intelligence in post-human era.","PeriodicalId":229607,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Philosophy and History","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131089127","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}