著者
Yamanaka Hideya 桃山学院大学文学部
出版者
桃山学院大学総合研究所
雑誌
国際文化論集 = INTERCULTURAL STUDIES (ISSN:09170219)
巻号頁・発行日
no.24, pp.3-26, 2001-07-10

In his presentation of the secondary grade curriculum for the young, the Athenian stranger refers to the matter, which it is disgraceful not to know: the problems concerning "the essential nature of the commensurable and the incommensurable." (820c) The reference appears immediately after the Athenian stranger's introduction to three branches of learning: arithmetic, geometry, and astrology (817e), whose detailed study is necessary for only 'a few' (818a). Referring to the instruction of the essential nature of the commensurable and the incommensurable, what matter did Plato exactly have in his mind? G. R. Morrow said that the introduction of the problem of incommensurable magnitudes to the curriculum was "an innovation to which Plato attaches peculiar importance" and also that although the belief that "all magnitudes are somehow commensurable with one another is natural to us," seeing that this belief is in fact false would be to rise above one's human nature." Although the saying seems to hit the mark, Morrow did not fully explain why Plato's introduction to the learning of incommensurable magnitudes was "an innovation" which had a "peculiar importance" and how the subject-matter of the incommensurable could "emancipate the student from his instinctive sense-bound beliefs and thus, ・・・・・・raise him above his human nature." (pp.346-7) However, it is worth listening to his other words which bear on the significance of mathematical thinking in the context of legislation: "the law, as we learn in the Philebus, results from the application of the Limit (περα〓) to an indefinitely varying qualitative continuum (απειρου), and the Limit is conceived of as analogous to mathematical order." The words could be settled more aptly in the context of the incommensurable. I insist that Plato here in the dialogue Laws, referring to the peculiar importance of the incommensurable, gives an inkling of the fact that the scientific knowledge of the incommensurable has an isomorphic property with that faculty that discerns "the identical element which pervades all the four virtues" (965c). That is to say, Plato identifies the method by which the nature of the incommensurable magnitudes can be explained as a significant model in order to "hold very tight and not to let go"(965d) until we can adequately explain the essential nature of the object existing as a unity. In other words, the detailed study of the incommensurable is of great advantage to 'a few' (818a) who are expected to be members of the Nocturnal Council and who "must not only be able to pay regard to the many, but must be able also to press towards the one (pros to hen) so as to discern it and, on discerning it, to survey and organize all the rest with a single eye to it" (965b), since the fruit of this offers them a convenient paradigm in medium of which they may master an isomorphic way in order to see the invisible one. Plato's reference to the problem of the incommensurable in the Laws is at first sight negative. After his labor to explain the necessity of a subject concerning the incommensurable, the Athenian stranger says that it is to be laid down provisionally only, 'like pledges capable of redemption, apart from the rest of our constitution, in case they fail to satisfy either us who enact them or you for whom they are enacted.' (820e). However, the utterance is paradoxical in the same way as the introduction of the Nocturnal Council in the closing books of the Laws appears paradoxically to be an appendix, whereas in reality the whole constitution of Magnesia is rooted in the Council. Both facts correspond to one another and put Plato's metaphysical thinking out of our sight. Focusing the implications of philosophical dimensions of the incommensurable in the Laws, I will try to bring them into the relevance to Plato's metaphysical thought in the other dialogues and the Seventh Letter VII, where the deepest tenet on the incommensurable or the cognate ideas make their appearance vividly.
著者
松永 俊男 Toshio MATSUNAGA 桃山学院大学文学部
出版者
桃山学院大学総合研究所
雑誌
桃山学院大学人間科学 (ISSN:09170227)
巻号頁・発行日
no.20, pp.139-161, 2000-12

Scientific investigation in early nineteenth century England was based on natural theology. The evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin was also based on natural thelogy. Most contemporary scholars and clergy accepted the evolution of organisms as providential evolution, that is, evolution guided by God. Darwinian theory did not reject the idea of providential evolution. Darwinian theory, however, also has a revolutionary factor, which implies a mechanical interpretation of the adaptation of organisms. Modern biologists acknowledge only this revolutionary factor in Darwinism. But in order to understand properly the historical significance of Darwinism, we must recognize the religious factor in Darwinism. In this article we analyse the theological background of Darwinism and survey the contemporary reception of Darwinism.
著者
大賀 郁夫 Ikuo OHGA 宮崎公立大学人文学部 Miyazaki Municipal University Faculty of Humanities
雑誌
宮崎公立大学人文学部紀要 = Bulletin of Miyazaki Municipal University Faculty of Humanities (ISSN:13403613)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.25, no.1, pp.1-26, 2018-03-09

幕末期の一連の政治史において、薩摩・長州・土佐・越前各藩など雄藩が、重要な役割を果たしたことは言うまでもないが、藩全体の八割を占めた九万石以下の小藩はいかにして幕末期を乗り切り、維新を迎えたのだろうか。本稿では、日向延岡藩七代藩主であった内藤政義が記した自筆『日記』から、元治~慶応期に譜代小藩である延岡藩の動向を考察した。政義の交際は、実家の井伊家、養子政挙の実家太田家、それに趣味を通じて交流のあった水戸徳川家など広範囲にわたる。元治元年七月の禁門の変以降、二度に及ぶ長州征討に政挙が出陣しているが、江戸にいる隠居政義は高島流炮術や銃槍調練に励む一方、政局とはかけ離れた世界に居た。政義は梅・菖蒲・桜草・菊観賞に頻繁に遠出し、また水戸慶篤と品種交換や屋敷の造園に勤しんだ。在所からの為替銀が届かず藩財政は破綻に瀕しており、慶応三年末、薩摩藩邸の焼き討ちを契機に政義は在所延岡への移住を決断する。六本木屋敷に養母充真院を残したまま、翌慶応四年四月、政義は奥女中や主な家臣家族ともども品川を出船し延岡へ向かった。幕末期の譜代小藩の動向を窺うことができる。

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著者
井本 英一 Eiichi Imoto 桃山学院大学文学部(元)
出版者
桃山学院大学総合研究所
雑誌
国際文化論集 = INTERCULTURAL STUDIES (ISSN:09170219)
巻号頁・発行日
no.36, pp.1-32, 2007-06-20

The color blue is seen on the borders of the inside and outside of a home, in this world and the next world, so it is the color of the funeral, the marriage and other rites. Messengers from the other world used to wear blue clothes, and maids or servants of this world had blue clothes on. The executioner's clothes had something blue and the condemned criminal's had, too. A sacrifice, human or animal, had something blue. A man on his deathbed would change his usual clothes for blue ones. The dead person was thought to be an offering to the gods. The color blue was the symbol of giving vigor and energy to the god. The blue colors were used from the royal divine families to the common people. On the New Year, Emperors of China and Japan put on blue clothes. The Virgin Mary also wore a blue mantle.
著者
島 久洋 Hisahiro Shima 桃山学院大学文学部
出版者
桃山学院大学総合研究所
雑誌
桃山学院大学キリスト教論集 (ISSN:0286973X)
巻号頁・発行日
no.27, pp.p63-81, 1991-03

The purpose of this study is to investigate psychosocial factors for healthy long life based on ways of life. We studied Brazilian populations in Bage in August of 1990. Study populations were male and female at the age of 49-55 randomly selected. They live in the areas of Bage of Rio Grande do Sul, the Federative Republic of Brazil. The surveys were conducted by face-sheet methods in the indoor. A questionnaire was consisted of 48 items in relation to healthy conditions, eating habits, family relations, and religious behaviors. The questionnaire and interview were used Portuguese. The distribution of religion are presented in Table 1. The sigificant of these results concerning religion was discussed.
著者
吉井 美知子 よしい みちこ Yoshii Michiko 沖縄大学人文学部
出版者
沖縄大学人文学部
雑誌
沖縄大学人文学部紀要 = Journal of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (ISSN:13458523)
巻号頁・発行日
no.18, pp.11-24, 2016-03-07

ベトナムでは初の原発建設計画が進められている。南部のニントゥアン第一原発をロシアが、第二原発を日本が受注し、着工は2022 年以降とっている。原発に関する世論調査等は一切行われていない。外国人による現地取材や調査も非常に難しい。そこで本研究では立地地元ではなく、国内外の離れた場所で暮らす地元出身者への聴き取り調査を実施した。これにより現地出身者の意見を明らかにする。調査の結果、学歴が中卒以下の人々の多くは、フクシマ事故や故郷に建つ原発の計画を知らず、意見も持たないことがわかった。また高卒以上の人々は放射能への不安、人材不足の懸念からの反対が多く、日本には原発ではなく再生可能エネルギーへの支援をという声が集まった。立地地元に情報が行き渡らず、高学歴者の間で計画への反対意見が多いなか誰ひとり意見発信ができない。言論の自由のない国を狙って原発を輸出する日本の、道義的責任が問われている。Vietnam prepares to build its first nuclear power plants (NPP) in Ninh Thuan Province, Russia andJapan as the suppliers.This study conducted interviews with the locals of Ninh Thuan and nearby areas who temporarily stayand work in major Vietnamese cities or overseas to acquire their opinions on the NPP.Results showed that those with low-level education lack knowledge of and opinions about nuclearproject. Those with higher-level education oppose the project and have concerns about nuclear disaster, butlack the ability to express their opinions.Japan's targeting of countries without freedom of expression for NPP project places its moralresponsibility in question.
著者
小林 信彦 Nobuhiko KOBAYASHI 桃山学院大学文学部
出版者
桃山学院大学総合研究所
雑誌
桃山学院大学総合研究所紀要 = ST.ANDREW'S UNIVERSITY BULLETIN OF THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (ISSN:1346048X)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.26, no.3, pp.107-140, 2001-03-15

Japanese kamis who hate sins get angry and bring about disasters when men do wrong. Without sins they are happy and do not cause disasters. Taking advantage of this behaviour, the Japanese framed the idea of kekwa They tried to soothe angry kamis by chanting sutras as magic formulae in order to stop disasters such as droughts and plagues. This is a new type of harahe and therefore repenting is not involved in spite of its name "kekwa" (to repent).