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A Categorical and Information-Theoretic Framework for Prime Numbers
No full textWe propose a categorical and information-theoretic framework for understanding prime numbers. In this model, we define two fundamental objects, `Ω` (0) and Maxwell’s Demon (1), and consider morphisms between them in a well-defined category of computational processes. Prime numbers emerge as **maximal entropy morphisms**, definable either by a closed-form formula or algorithm. The framework yields a dichotomy: either `Ω ≅ 1`, or a definable morphism exists for each prime number
弦的共振与文明精神的传承：一种基于玄-弦模型的文明哲学
No full text摘要：本文立足“先天/后天”两界存在论与“玄-弦”本体模型，将研究视域从个体修行拓
展至文明演进，构建一种全新的文明哲学理论。本文主张，文明精神的本质并非后天
的文化符号或社会共识，而是特定群体“玄-弦”通过长期耦合实践形成的“高能弦稳定振
动模式”；文明精神的传承，核心并非文字记载、制度延续等后天形式，而是这种“高能
弦振动模式”通过“弦的同频共振”实现的跨时空传递。论文首先梳理人类文明精神传承
的经验现象与传统理论局限；继而基于“玄-弦”模型建构文明精神的本体论基础，界定
“弦的共振”在传承中的核心作用；通过“文明精神的跨时空共振能否实现”的思想实验，
具象化论证后天传承形式与先天弦共振的本质关联；最后通过与文明进化论、文化传
播学、心灵哲学集体无意识理论的批判性对话，彰显本理论的解释优势。本文的结论
是，真正的文明精神传承，是“高能弦振动模式”的跨时空共振，后天的文化符号、制度
规范只是共振的载体与媒介，唯有激活个体“玄-弦”的共振潜能，才能实现文明精神的
真正延续与升华。这一认知为理解文明的兴衰演进提供了全新的本体论视角，也为当
代文明的传承与创新指明了核心路径
Taiwan’s Democratic Resilience and Its Challenges: A Critical Reassessment of CCP’s Multi-Modal Cognitive Warfare
No full textIn recent years, Taiwan has been consistently targeted by cognitive warfare launched by China, using tactics that demonstrate a level of complexity beyond traditional academic definitions. This paper examines cognitive warfare through a multi-modal framework, integrating the concept of horizontal dissemination from political communication theory to expand scholarly understanding of these strategies. It also asserts that since cognitive warfare includes “malicious socio-disruptive technologies,” such tactics should not be categorized under the rights protected by free speech. This study extensively examines the theoretical and practical frameworks for countering cognitive warfare, focusing on three primary concerns: first, the clarification of the multi-modal cognitive warfare framework; second, analyses of cognitive warfare from both theoretical and practical perspectives; and third, proposing possible response strategies rooted in Taiwan’s democratic resilience
Amber D. Carpenter and Pierre-Julien Harter (eds.), "Crossing the Stream, Leaving the Cave: Buddhist-Platonist Philosophical Inquiries," Oxford University Press, 2024, 299pp., $105.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198880844.
No full textThe Way Out: Naturalising Art (for a New Mythology)
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to confront the crisis in art and argument over whether it has lost its way. According to Friedrich Schelling, the ‘modern mythology’, bolstered by the onset of Christianity, is responsible for generating ‘aesthetic privation’ producing a joint crisis of meaning for humanity and art. Their artificial historicising, at the root of this, began with overturning the ‘ancient mythology’ in which art was a unified principle integrally linked to both Nature and History via the Person. Extending this argument, drawing on other Radical Enlightenment thinkers, I show why this corrupted the essential link between aesthetics, ethics, and logic (exacerbated by Kant’s re-definition of aesthetics). And subsequently how the human habitus and telos globally transformed under an evolving modern ‘positivistic materialism’, characterised by an ideological, reflective standpoint, ‘worlding’ humanity toward posthumanism and possible extinction.
Addressing the underlying problem of modern ‘mythologising’ and ‘aesthetic privation’ is proposed as essential to mending the associated historicised disjunctures between Art and Society, Nature, and the Person connecting both meaning crises. Early chapters examine why reassociating art ontologically with the normative discipline of aesthetics rather than theoretical ‘aesthetics’ is necessary for this. Reconceiving art as complexity science (Wissenschaft), as Schelling’s ‘process metaphysics’; ‘naturalising’ it to restore habitual primary attendance to bearers of higher meaning (‘internal’ goods) is proposed. This requires understanding ‘ethical value’ in the phenomenology of this ‘science of admiring’. A method for which, and for returning virtue ethics (firstly to the arts ecology), is suggested as a meaningful, practical way to reunite ethics with morals in modern society. Naturalising Art is thus argued as necessary for developing a new mythology and genuine political community needed to reorient humanity.
The procedure followed is to firstly examine the posited underlying problem’s significance and causes. Deterioration of the Principle of Art (and essential link between Art and the Person, via corruption of the normative disciplines) emerges as a key reason for why art and humanity’s meaning crises developed together, peaking in contemporary ‘modernity’. This central claim and corresponding remedial propositions (reconnecting Art with normative aesthetics) centre on four main arguments for addressing five suggested historical ‘modifications’ (identified by Raymond Williams, and others) producing the above disjunctures. Re-establishing an ontological conception of Art, restoring dialectical normativity to our modes of admiring (‘idealising’), is thus proposed as essential for confronting deep assumptions inherent in modern mythologising. A methodology for assessing ‘ethical’ meaning-value directionality in any artwork, by combining Peircian semiotics with Max Scheler’s hierarchy of values to revive Schelling’s principle of Art, is then developed to suggest a practical approach for restoring virtue ethics to the human telos
Poetry Review of ‘Sierran Pan’ by Dr. Henry Meade Bland, PLC (1929—1931), California Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for CA State of Arts Council
No full textThis review critically examines "Sierran Pan," a seminal nature poem by Dr. Henry Meade Bland (1863–1931), the first official Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for California. The poem functions as a lyrical manifesto that conflates the classical Greek deity of the wild, Pan, with the physical and spiritual landscape of the Sierra Nevada. Pan is the God of nature, the wild, shepherds, flocks, mountain wilds, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the Nymphs. The analysis will focus on the poem's structure, thematic synthesis of classicism and regionalism, and its use of the "I" persona to claim imaginative ownership over the California wilderness. It is argued that "Sierran Pan" succeeds as both a pastoral invocation and a definitive statement of Bland's contribution to Western American poetic identity
Freedom and the Shaping of National Culture in Hispanic American Representations of the Renaissance Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, José Ingenieros and Alejandro Korn
No full textIbn Taymiyyah's Version of Corporealism of God
No full textIn Abrahamic tradition, the question of God’s relationship with body, space and direction is an inescapable philosophical and theological issue and Islam is not an exception. The Central text of Islam, Quran, contains verses that anthropomorphically attributes “hands”, “eyes”, “face” “establishment upon throne” referencing God. These verses have for centuries sparked among the Muslim philosophers and theologians, centuries of debate; leading to diverse interpretations and theological schools of thought. Ibn Taymiyyah and Fahr al-Din al-Rāzī are two of those prominent figures who also debated this issue. Ibn Taymiyyah takes the relational ontology of space and doesn't negate the prediction of the body to God. On the other hand, Fahr al-Dīn al-Rāzī an Ash’ari theologian negates all kinds of anthropomorphic attribution for God. This paper presents Ibn Taymiyyah’s position on God's body and his conflict with Ash’ari scholar Fahr al-Dīn al-Rāzī
Verwicklungen der Erkenntnis. Theorie in ihrer historischen Situation
No full textThe paper addresses the entanglement of scientific theory formation within its historical context. While objectivity remains a central aspiration of scientific knowledge, research is shaped by institutional structures, socio-historical conditions, and the historicity of researchers. The analysis reflects on the epistemic and normative implications of these interconnections and argues for a critical science that acknowledges and examines its own conditions