Harmonious View Research Articles

An exposition of Zhou Yi studies in modern Neo-Confucianism

The representatives of modern Neo-Confucianism all greatly value Yi Zhuan and regard it as one of their spiritual resources, and give their own creative interpretations and transformations. Xiong Shili’s ontological-cosmological theory takes “qian yuan” as its center; Ma Yifu has a theory of ontology-cultivation centered on “nature-principle”; Fang Dongmei has a metaphysics of production and reproduction; Mou Zongsan takes the view of “completely knowing the fathomless and understanding transformation” as a moral metaphysics; and in Tang Junyi there is a theory of the harmony of doctrines on Heaven and man in which “the knowledge of divine understanding” is its key concept. They employ modern philosophical concepts and thinking to illustrate the cosmology, ontology, theory of life, theory of human nature, theory of spiritual worlds, axiology and their connections in Zhou Yi. They affirm that the characteristics of Chinese philosophy that are different from Western philosophy consist in a naturalist view of vital life, a harmonious view of totality, an axiological view that values exist in natural universe and the world of fact, the pursuit of Good and Beauty, and intuitive experience of inner world.

Searle on Social Institutions: A Critique

The dominant “harmonious” notion of a social institution used by Searle in the discussion of social facts is critically reconsidered. It is argued that an essential ingredient is missing from this notion, namely the harming feature of power. The harmonious view treats power as an important part of social institutions, but takes into account only its beneficial side. This led to a thoroughly positive notion of social institutions which makes us blind to the harm they inflict, the duality of those who benefit from exerting power and those who suffer from the power being exerted upon them, and the asymmetry between leading groups and those which “are lead”. It turns out that Searle's notion of social facts is robust and compatible with a more adequate notion of social institutions emerging from the investigation.

The symphony of the damned: racial discourse, complex political emergencies and humanitarian aid.

This paper concerns the manner in which the West is responding to protracted political crises beyond its borders. It examines the conceptual world-view that aid agencies bring to complex emergencies and which shapes action. The paper provides an analysis of developmentalism. That is, the currently dominant idea of development which is an adapted form of multiculturalism. It is based on the empowerment of cultural differences and the relativisation of progress. As a variant of multiculturalism, developmentalism is part of Western racial discourse. In terms of understanding conflict, it establishes a mirror-image relationship with new rascist ideas premised on cultural pluralism inevitably leading to social breakdown, violence and anarchy. To the contrary, with its functional view of social harmony, libertine developmentalism claims that even unresolved political crisis constitutes a development opportunity. Developmentalism, like culturalism generally, is incapable of analysing power. It therefore cannot understand the effects and significance of its own organisational forms. Moreover, since the absence of power translates into operational neutrality in a war zone, it is also unable to analyse the nature of new political formations emerging in the global periphery. That is, the so-called weak or failed states, warlords and so on. This functional ignorance has allowed a widespread incorporation of humanitarian aid into the fabric of political violence. Developmentalism is an essential underpinning for the growing organisational accommodation to ongoing conflict and eroding standards of justice and accountability.

Prices and Distributive Antagonism in the Work of Smith and Kalecki

Adam Smiths adding up theory (Sraffa 1951, p. xxxv) has generally been interpreted as an expression of the harmonious view of the mechanisms governing exchange ratios and distribution In two preceding works (Nistico 1988,1991) I tried to show that Smith's theory of prices is instead fully compatible with the classical approach to the theory of value and distribution based on the essential role played by class antagonism in a capitalist system.

Six Problems in the Sociology of the Ethnic Economy

This article discusses six problems in the area of the sociology of the ethnic economy. The problems are: (1) a skewed view of the import and robustness of ethnic businesses, (2) an inaccurate view of harmony and exclusive dependence on co-ethnics among ethnic business owners, (3) a contradiction between the stranger hypothesis and the protected market hypothesis, (4) difficulties with the special endowments hypothesis, (5) uncertainties in propositions that attempt to explain business concentration among ethnics, and (6) use of the term middleman minority in a generic sense. The works of five leading U.S. scholars are examined in terms of what they contribute to the solution of these problems.

The imperative of organizational harmony: A critique of contemporary human relations theory

Disharmony in an organization is an obvious liability. Seemingly, then, harmony should be a noncontroversial good. This conclusion, however, is less than secure. Harmony is not a univocal concept, there are many ways it can be interpreted and there are many different areas within an organization where it can be pursued. Before one can assess harmony as a value one must have prior understanding of what it means and where it is to be sought. For purposes of discussion let us understand an organization as a group of people that functions as a complex goal seeking unit? Even within this general characterization there are a number of distinct areas where harmony could be an issue. There is the question of harmony on goals, on the means of seeking them, on the function of the parts of the complex unit, etc. The aspect of the organization that is of interest for this paper is what has been called its human dimension. Specifically, this paper will examine the value of harmony as it is applied to the relationship between the individuals within an organization and the goals of that organization. Harmony remains equivocal even when one focuses upon a specific aspect of the organization. In order to resolve this the paper will use the ideas of Douglas McGregor as a vehicle for examining a view of harmony which has become pervasive in much of contemporary organizational theory. This is a view generated primarily by the human relations movement and given theoretical expression by McGregor and numerous other writers. With noteworthy consistency, his theory contains the basic assumptions of a large number of writers, a group collectively referred to as contemporary human relations theorists. Included in this group, in addition to McGregor, are such people as ~ ' . Bennis, R. Likert, C. Argyfis, R. Blake, j. Mouton, A. Marrow, H. Leavitt, F. Herzberg, and others. The value commitment to harmony rests implicit in the writings of these theorists. The paper will not examine all of these writers individually but will, through the means of McGregor's ideas, consider some salient features of their shared assumptions. What the paper will show is that the overriding goal of the prescriptions for organizational reform is harmony. We can see how this value is understood by exploring the assumptions and implications of the proposals for organizational change. Presupposed by these proposals and by the overriding goal is a certain view about human nature. As the paper will argue, this view is determinative both for how harmony is understood and for why it is valued so highly. The paper also will argue that this view about humans is mistaken and go on to suggest that it is exactly this basic theoretical misconception that explains why the application of human relations concepts to organizations has not produced the results that were predicted.

FAMILY DYNAMICS AND MEDICATION COMPLIANCE IN TEENAGED EPILEPTICS

Optimal seizure control for a teenager epileptic requires compliance with the prescribed regimen. We tested the hypothesis that poor medication compliance is associated with parental restrictiveness and family disharmony, since both thwart the attainment of the teens' developmental goals of independence and acceptance in the family. Twenty-five epileptic young people (ages 9-17 yrs. being treated with phenobarbital were observed for one year). Teens' perceptions of their Personal Freedom (TPF) in daily activities and Teens' views of harmony in their Family Relations (TFR) were measured using scales from the California Test of Personality. Similar scales assessed Parents' views of the teens' Personal Freedom (PPF) and Parents' views of Family Relations (PFR). Saliva Compliance Scores (SCS) were calculated from phenobarbital levels in saliva samples obtained monthly (by mail from the subjects' homes and at clinic and home visits). SCS was correlated with TPF (r=0.38,p=0.06), PPF (r=0.52, p=0.007), TFR (r=0.39, p=0.04), and PFR (r=0.40,p=0.04). The SCS was more highly correlated with TPF after partialling out the effects of age (r=0.41,p=0.04), and sex (r=0.42,p=0.03). These family issues have potential causal relationships to medication compliance in epileptic youth. Clinicians should monitor and address family-adolescent interaction in order to assure the desired outcome in the treatment of adolescents with epilepsy.

Coping with stress at work.

This paper considers the quality-of-life concept from the point of view of harmony between fundamental human needs and environmental conditions. It is argued that the knowledge gained by research in psychobiology can aid in directing technological applications to suit human needs and abilities. Examples are given from a multidisciplinary research program concerned with the dynamics of stressful person-environment transactions, viewed from psychological and biological perspectives. Emphasis is placed on coping and adaptation in workers exposed to conditions characterized by underload, overload, and lack of control. On the basis of empirical results, it is argued that a moderately varied flow of stimuli and events, opportunities to engage in psychologically meaningful work, and to exercise personal control over situational factors, may be considered key components in the quality-of life concept.

Harmony and nonharmonic partials

We have explored some musical effects of tones with nonharmonic partials. The spacing of partials can be stretched so that each partial frequency fij present in tones sounded singly or together is given by fij=Ai/12+log2j. Here i is the scale step in semitones, j is the partial number, and A is the frequency ratio of a pseudo-octave (A=2 for a true octave). We find that subjects can match the keys of stretched (A=2.4) as well as unstretched passages. Stretched cadences (A=2.4) do not seem final. But, a stretched ’’cadence’’ with equally spaced partials that goes from closely spaced (tonally dissonant) to widely spaced (tonally consonant) partials does seem final. Our experiments do not decide finally among three views of harmony: that harmony depends on a fundamental bass or periodicity pitch (Rameau), that harmony depends on the spacing of partials (Helmholtz and Plomp) or that harmony is a matter of brainwashing.

Marx and Mill: Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony. By Graeme Duncan. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974. Pp. 386. $15.50.)

Preface Part I. Preliminaries: Introduction 1. The background Part II. Marx: 2. Man and community 3. The disintegration of capitalism 4. Politics and social change 5. communism Part III. Mill: 6. Ideas, classes and social change 7. The elevation of mankind 8. The elite and liberal politics Part IV. Conclusions: 9. Marx, Mill and modern society Notes Bibliography.

Marx and Mill: Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony

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Marx and Mill. Two Views of Social Harmony and Social Conflict.

Marx and Mill. Two Views of Social Harmony and Social Conflict.

Marx and the Marxists: An Outline of Practice and Theory.David ChildsMarx and Mill: Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony.Graeme DuncanMarx's Paris Writings: An Analysis.John MacuireMarx's Theory of Exchange, Alienation and Crisis.Paul Craig Roberts , Matthew A. Stephenson

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Marx and Mill: Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony.

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A Preliminary Study of Alcuin's Bible

One of the achievements of recent scholarship forever to be identified with Ludwig Traube's name is the combination of history, palaeography, and textual criticism as an indispensable guide to the understanding of early mediaeval culture. The investigator of the course of politics and of letters works at second hand if he knows not the characteristics of those manuscripts in which contemporary events are recorded, or of those in which the treasures of the past were handed down to the Middle Ages. The palaeographer must consider his books not only as specimens of script but as witnesses for the text of the works they contain and as monuments of the culture of the times. The textual critic ploughs an arid field if the codices of an author are to him but A and B and C, to be hung from a stemma according to the value of their readings and their interrelations. These separate studies, which indeed call for diverse methods and diverse trainings, are but parts of a single science—a harmonious and comprehensive view of the life of an epoch. Traube of course had precursors in this complicated art, but his brilliant pursuit of it entitles him to what he himself would disclaim—the rank of a founder.

Vincent D'Indy's View of Harmony

Vincent D'Indy's View of Harmony