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Kant viewed pre-enlightened people as living in a self-imposed "minority" due to a lack of courage to think independently. He argued humans were domesticated by authority figures who discouraged independent thought. Further, humans found comfort in their passive role and feared daring to think freely. Kant proposed solutions, such as developing public reason through open debate, to help people emerge from this self-imposed minority and progress toward an enlightened society.
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These are the slides from a talk I gave to the Business Association in Opuanke, Taranaki, New Zealand.
They begin with an introduction to China (where I work). Then they provide a theoretical framework to advance discussions about the marketing of towns and small cities in New Zealand. There are stages that locations must go through as they seek to develop their economic base. The final part is about suggestions specifically for Opuanke.
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was a highly influential German philosopher from the Enlightenment era. He synthesized rationalism and empiricism and made significant contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and other fields. His three Critiques examined pure reason, practical reason, and judgment. Kant argued that scientific knowledge, morality, and religious belief are consistent because they rest on human autonomy and reason.
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Kant viewed pre-enlightened people as living in a self-imposed "minority" due to a lack of courage to think independently. He argued humans were domesticated by authority figures who discouraged independent thought. Further, humans found comfort in their passive role and feared daring to think freely. Kant proposed solutions, such as developing public reason through open debate, to help people emerge from this self-imposed minority and progress toward an enlightened society.
The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement that dominated Europe in the 18th century. Enlightenment thinkers believed that reason, science, and humanism could improve society and advance knowledge. Major Enlightenment ideas included questioning absolute monarchy, establishing natural human rights and religious tolerance, and applying scientific reasoning to social and political issues. Enlightenment philosophers such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Kant influenced revolutions and the development of democratic forms of government through their writings.
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China confronts Kant when students experience the angst of freedom
1. China confronts Kant when
university students experience the
angst of freedom
中国直面康德——
大学生经受自由焦虑
Dr Robert Shaw
School of Management
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
广东外语外贸大学管理学院
罗伯特·肖博士
大学生经受自由焦虑
2. Introduction 导论
1.This talk is about a paper that has been written for
publication
本演讲内容来源为一篇用于发表的文章
2.There is a line of argument in the paper
文中有一个论点
3.The argument uses the insights of an important
western philosopher, Immanuel Kant
论点引用著名西方哲学家伊曼努尔·康德的观点
3. Introduction 导论
4.The argument is about how Chinese students will
be changed by their university education and the
implications of this for China
论点主要关于中国大学教育如何改变学生及此对
中国的含义
4. Topics today 今天的话题
1.Abstract
摘要
2.The German Enlightenment & China
德国启蒙运动&中国
3.Kant
康德
4.The argument in the paper
文章中的论点
6. 6 摘要
An existential interpretation of student angst in
Chinese universities raises issues of autonomy and
freedom.
以存在主义解读中国大学生焦虑引发自主性及自由的
问题思考。
7. 7
The governance arrangements in China manifest as
an existential dissonance for students as they
increasingly urged to question.
随着学生开始不断提出质疑,中国的治理工作在他们
看来呈现出一种存在性失调
8. 8
Western modernity entails individual moral
autonomy and thus a concept of freedom.
Kant’s theory of duty-rationality-autonomy-freedom
relates the liberty of thought to principled action.
西方现代观蕴含个人道德自律,也就是自由的一个概
念。康德的责任-理性-自主-自由理论与法则性行
为思想自由是相关联的。
9. 9
Kantian ideals permeate western business and
university practice.
康德的理想渗透在西方商业及大学教育实践中。
10. 10
China needs managers who are insightful, creative,
innovative, progressive.
Such people are independent minded, rational, and
they act on their own conclusions.
Such people are Kant’s autonomous persons.
中国希望管理者具备洞察力、创造力、创新性、先进
性、热忱心等素质,而这些素质只会出现在那些理性
做事、独立思考、并按照他们的想法工作的管理者身
上。这些人就是康德所说的具有自主性的人。
11. 11
Whilst autonomous persons may produce new ideas,
products and services, they are unlikely to accept
bridles upon information, restrictions upon the
expression of ideas, and restrictions on the freedom
of others.
他们能产生新想法、新产品和新服务,但他们不太愿
意受到信息的控制,想法表达的限制及对他人自由的
约束。
12. 12
Such bridles limit the autonomy of all persons in
ways they find unacceptable.
这些束缚以人们无法接受的方式限制人们的自主性。
Chinese students increasingly confront this
conflicted political environment in their everyday
lives.
中国学生在生活中日益面临这种矛盾的政治环境。
Education reforms require students to think,
analyse and argue.
教育改革要求学生要学会思考、分析和争论。
13. 13
Freedom, as construed by Kant as an “inner”
construct, is an outcome of this deliberation
(thinking).
However, when students exercise freedom in
significant matters they may come to experience the
angst of freedom.
自由,在康德的解读下是一种“内在”构想,是这种道德
自律思想的结果。然而,当学生在重要问题上运用这种
自由时,他们却会经受自由的焦虑。
14. The Enlightenment 启蒙运动
1.In the history of the west, there was a major change
in thinking in the 18th century
在西方历史上,18世纪有一个重大的思想转变
2.The new period is sometimes called the
Enlightenment or the Age of Reason
这个新的时期有时被称为启蒙运动或理性时代
15. The Enlightenment 启蒙运动
3.The new ideas (vision) which appeared then
remain fundamental to the western way of thinking
today
那时出现的新思想(看法)至今仍是西方思维方式的
基础
4.These ideas affect all aspects of life, including
family life, religion, business, democracy and politics
这些思想影响着生活的方方面面,包括家庭生活,宗
教,商业,民主和政治
16.
17. The German Enlightenment
德国启蒙运动
1. 1650-1800 – after Enlightenment period in other
countries
1650-1800——在其他国家的后启蒙运动时期
2. Goethe, Leibniz, Kant
歌德,莱布尼茨,康德
18. The German Enlightenment
德国启蒙运动
3. Compare German & French Enlightenment
比较德国和法国的启蒙运动
a. Not violent (非暴力)
b. Smaller states - decentralised (小国-放权)
c. Latin (拉丁)
d. Tightly controlled people (严重束缚人们)
4. An Enlightenment of ideas, not dramatic actions
一场思想而非极端行为的启蒙运动
19. 1.Redevelopment opening, 2011
博物馆重建并开放, 2011
2.Three museums staged an exhibition
三个博物馆举办展览
a. Berlin 柏林
b. Leipzig 莱比锡城
c. National Museum of China 中国国家博物馆
20.
21. 启蒙之对话
Enlightenment in Dialogue
3.German Enlightenment
德国启蒙运动
4.Dialogue 对话
a. Art 艺术
b. Ideas 想法
5.Why this theme? 为什么是这个主题?
29. Immanuel Kant 伊曼努尔·康德
1.To understand philosophy
it helps to know about
philosophers
要理解哲学,它帮助我们了
解哲学家
2.Kant lived in a time that
was in many ways similar to
China today
康德所生活的那个时代与今
天的中国在很多方面很相似
30. 30
Explains the history,
how Kant wrote, and
interprets his work.
解释历史,康德是如何
写作的,并诠释其著作
37. Important words in Kant’s theory
of freedom
康德自由理论中的关键词
1.Cognition (thinking)
1. 认知(思维)
2.Scientific
2.科学的
3.Moral / ethical
3.道德/伦理
4.Reality
4.现实
5.Sensation
5.感觉
6.Phenomena
6.现象
7.Model
7.模式
8.Moral autonomy
8.道德自律
9.Moral heteronomy
9.道德他律
(follows rules of
(按照他人的规则)
others)
38. Kant’s theory of freedom
康德的自由理论
1.Cognition (thinking) has two aspects/modes/ways
认知(思维)有两个方面/模式/方式
a. Scientific thinking
科学思维
b. Moral thinking
道德思维
2.How are the two ways different?
这两种方式有何不同?
3.Kant is an idealist (we do not “know” reality)
康德是一个理想主义者(我们并非“认识”现实)
39. Reality
= things in themselves
Sensation
via our senses
Events & things
Our model of the world
= phenomena
现实
=事物本身
通过我们的感官感
觉
事件&事物
我们的世界模式
=现象
40. How we may encounter phenomen40a
Science Ethics
Questions How are things?
What happened?
What will happen?
What ought to I do?
What sort of person
should I become?
Goal Description Prescription
Time Explains the past
Predicts the future
On-going
Now!
Never repeated
Static
Methods Incremental
Reductive
Holistic
Irreducible
Outputs Laws
Facts
Theories
Decisions
Actions
Experience of freedom
42. Moral thinking is of two kinds
道德思维有两种
1.Moral autonomy
道德自律
a. Independence – make your own decision
独立——自己决策
b. Decide rationally – judge the whole situation
理性决定——判断整体情况
c. Strength of will – carry your decision into action
意志力——把决定变为行动
2.Moral heteronomy (following others rules)
道德他律(按照他人的规则)
45. Moral autonomy
道德自律
1.The essence of individual, personal decision-making
个人、个人决策的本质
2.Autonom0us decision-making always involves a kind
of personal freedom
自主决策总是包含一种个人自由
3.The experience of this freedom generates the desire
for its further use
这种自由的体验让人们更渴望对其进一步加以利用
47. The argument
in the paper
文章论点
The argument involves three topics/parts/steps:
论点包括三方面/部分/步骤:
1. The situation of Chinese students
中国学生的情况
2. Kant’s theory which involves freedom
康德涉及自由的理论
3. The Enlightenment & China
启蒙运动&中国
48. Part 1:The situation of
Chinese students
中国学生的情况
1.Rapidly developing course objectives
快速发展的课程目标
2.Subjects now require critical ideas and originality
学科现在要求批判性的想法和原创性
3.Students increasingly find limitations irksome
学生日益对限制厌烦
4.Much quiet discussion about politics
对政治噤若寒蝉
49. Part 2: Kant’s theory which
involves freedom
康德涉及自由的理论
5. Mature people show autonomy
成熟的人呈现自主性
6. The practice of autonomy generates a domain of
freedom within a person
实践自主性在个人可产生一个自由的领域
7. Students who experience this freedom in their
school work will seek it in other areas of life
在学校中体验这种自由的学生将在生活其他领域追
求这种自由
50. Part 3: Enlightenment & China
启蒙运动&中国
8. Autonomous academics in Germany generated
the German Enlightenment
德国学术自主性孕育了德国启蒙运动
9. Autonomous students & teachers will generate
the Chinese Enlightenment
具有自主性的学生和老师将会带来中国的启蒙运动
10.The Chinese Enlightenment will produce new
governance and social structures
中国启蒙运动将会产生崭新的治理和社会架构
51. Part 3: Enlightenment & China
启蒙运动&中国
11. The conflict between autonomy and heteronomy
generates for students a particular kind of stress
道德自律和他律的冲突给学生带来了特别的压力
12. That stress is called the angst of freedom
这种压力被称为自由的焦虑