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Proceedings of Eco-Sophia 2011 Parallel Session -8th International Whitehead Conference- Creativity and Harmony: The Way of Eco-Sophia for the Future of Civilization September 26-29, 2011 The Yotsuya Campus, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan Table of Contents Parallel Session Papers ABE Yoshihiko (Sophia junior college, Japan) p. 2 Sapientia convivendi in Life of Suso-Narratological Perspective of German Mysticism on the Horizon of Love and Reconciliation ANZAI Masahiro (Sophia University, Japan) p. 9 The reflect of the war-liking of logos-centrism- The way to co-exist and reconcile- Donna BOWMAN (University of Central Arkansas, U.S.A.) p. 16 Needle, Hook, Relational Wisdom: The Prayer Shawl Ministry As Creative Engagement With Fate John T. BRINKMAN (Commission on Ecology and Religion, Japan) p. 18 Harmony, Attribute of the Sacred and Phenomenal CHEN Aihua (Southeast University, China) p. 20 Environmental Moral Philosophical Review on the Logic of "City Charm" FAN Meijun (Center for Process Studies, U.S.A) p. 21 Ecological wisdom in Daoism Alexander HAITOS (Texas A&M University, U.S.A.) p. 33 Foreseeing novelty: Bergson and Whitehead on Possibility and Creation HANAOKA Eiko (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan) p. 52 Eco-sophia in “the Wisdom as prajuna viz. Love as agape” - through the change of paradigms- HAO Dong (China Community Party School, China) p. 58 Low-Carbon Technological Paradigm in Urbanization of China Brian G. HENNING (Gonzaga University, U.S.A.) p. 63 The Ontology of Collective Individuals and the Process Turn HIRATA Ichiro (Kansaigaidai College, Japan) p. 72 Continuity and Atomicity (p. 72-) Final Cause of Whitehead's Process and Reality (p. 74-) HIROSE Chuichiro (International Christian University, Japan) p. 76 Toward a sustainable global society-holistic transformation of civilization through adventure of ideas and practices IHARA Seiji (Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan) p. 78 A. N. Whitehead and Business: What to learn from him IIMORI Motoaki (Chuo University, Japan) p. 79 Reason and the Other - Whitehead's reason which adventures and Levinas's Skepticism as Revenant Ivan Brian L. INDUCTIVO (Cavite State University, Philippines) p. 89 ii Process Cosmology, Transtemporal identity and Eco-Ethics: Eco-Philosophy and Inheritance as Moral Grounds ISHIDA Masato (University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, U.S.A.) p. 90 The Environment Regarded as Symbolic Space: Expanding upon Whitehead's Symbolic Reference ITOW Shigeyuki (Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan) p. 97 A.N.Whitehead and Erwin Laszlo: A New Global Philosophy of Systems JANG Wang Shik (Methodist Theological University, Korea) p. 105 A Whiteheadian Evaluation of East Asian Aesthetic Philosophy Kurian KACHAPPILLY (Christ University, India) p. 106 Community-An Example of 'Organic Extensive Society' Hiheon KIM (Hanshin University, Korea) p. 116 A Korean Panentheism: Ham Seok-heon's Thought for Future Civilization LI Fang (Zhanjiang Normal University, China) p. 137 The Idea of Process Education in Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism LI Hengwei (Zhejiang University, China) p. 145 Contrast and comparison between Xiong Shili’s and Alfred North Whitehead’s metaphysics and cosmology LI Sen (Southwest University, China) p. 147 Eco-class: Harmonium and Creation LIU Qihua (Nanjing University of Technology, China) p. 158 A Preliminary Research on the Developing Model of Technological Sciences-Besides Discussion on a social mechanism of Modern Science & Technology Policy LUO Xiaoping (Academy of Marxism, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China) p. 167 On Process View: Momentum of Ecological Society’s Development Helmut MAASSEN (German Whitehead Society, Germany) p. 174 Identity and Religious Conflicts Egor MAKHAROV (Department of Philosophy Yakut Scientific Center, Russia) p. 176 Foundations of Dialogue among Cultures MORINAGA Naomiki (Utsunomiya University, Japan) p. 178 Subject and Reflexivity: Bergson, Whitehead and Benjamin Leslie MURAY (Curry College, U.S.A.) p. 180 Citizenship in an Ecological Civilization OZAKI Makoto (Sanyo Gakuen University, Japan) p. 188 History and Eternity from Tanabe's Perspectives Olusegun Noah OLAWOYIN (United Missionary Church of Africa, Nigeria) p. 197 Provisional outline of the relevance of Whiteheadian Philosophy for Africa iii PARK Iljoon (Methodist Theological University, Korea) p. 198 To Talk about Justice: Suturing the Whiteheadian harmonious subject to the Badiouan militant subject for the universal subject of ta me onta - A Badiouan Response to Event and Decision Miroslaw PATALON (University of Gdansk, Poland) p. 218 Religious Education in Poland and the New Paradigms in Ecology John QUIRING (Center for Process Studies, U.S.A.) p. 225 Collapse or Sustainability? Future-Ethics, Eco-Puiralism, and Process Thought SATO Yosuke (Chuo University, Japan) p. 228 The ground as nothingness Heine SIEBRAND (Remonstrant Church, Netherlands) p. 234 The ground beneath our feet SHIRAI Masato (Toyo University, Japan) p. 237 Toward Being for Others, with Others-Suggestions from Kitaro Nishida's "I and Thou"- Robert SMID (Boston University, U.S.A) p. 244 Effective Catalysts for Large-scale Social Change: An Argument from Process Philosophy and Chinese Confucianism Maria Teresa TEIXEIRA (Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) p. 251 We are in the World and the World is in us TSUDA Yoshio (Sophia University, Japan) p. 258 The essence of today's "ECO" movement and its twofold dangers-with Heidegger's criticism of technology UMEDA Kota (Sophia University, Japan) p. 267 A Philosophical Analysis of "Eco"-under the guidance of Hanna Arendt's Human Condition- WANG Shizhong (South Central University for Nationality, China) p. 269 Analysis on influence of ecological factors on China's primary schools’ and secondary schools’ layout restructuring in minority areas WANG Tianen (College of Social Sciences, Shanghai University, China) p. 271 Ecological Systemic Process and the Ways of Human Thinking and Acting WANG Zhihe (Center for Process Studies, U.S.A.) p. 272 The Second Enlightenment, Ecological Civilization, and Postmodern Green Lifestyle WANG Zhihong (Hefei University of Technology, China) p. 287 The evolution of "otherness" and the presentation of "inclusion" under the view of Western intellectual history WEN Hengfu & YANG Li (Harbin Normal University, China) p. 289 The 85-year research on Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism in China iv WU Libing (Hefei University of Technology, China) p. 301 The Ecological Civilization on basis of Marxism Philosophy WU Xueqin (Anhui University, China) p. 303 Tries to Analyze the Possibility of Realizing Ecological Civilization YAMAURA Yuzo (Sophia University, Japan) p. 307 Philosophical methods and ways in Whitehead and Kant YANG Fubin (Beijing International Studies University, China) p. 324 How to Keep A Harmonious Relation to Nature: from the Perspective of Whiteheadian Viewpoint of Organist Cosmology YANG Xiao-ming (Donghua University, China) & GAO Ce (Shanxi University, China) p. 325 Study on Lightning-Proof Mechanism in Buildings via Naturism Concept in Ancient China YOSHIDA Koji (Sophia University, Japan) p. 333 The Significance of Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism: Its Novelty and Universality YUAN Duo (The Education Institute of Zhanjiang Normal University, China) p. 334 The Significance of Whitehead's Educational Philosophy in the Reform of China’s Higher Education YUAN Zushe (Shaanxi Normal University, China) p. 340 The theory of human dignity of Marxism and its practice in contemporary China Denys ZHADYAEV (National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine, Ukraine) p. 341 From the Climate Change to Changing Skeptics: “Genus” Point of View ZHANG Zailin (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China) p. 351 The Great Change of the Human Philosophical Ideas Expedited by “Japan’ Disaster” ZHAO Jianjun (China Community Party School, China) p. 352 The analysis of China Green Development Model ZHU Chengke (Bohai University, China) p. 358 From Process to Generation: Transformation and Establishment of Contemporary Eductional View v Parallel Session Papers ABE Yoshihiko Sapientia convivendi in Life of Suso-Narratological Perspective of German Mysticism on the Horizon of Love and Reconciliation ABE Yoshihiko (Sophia junior college, Japan) [email protected] 1 The Meaning of Suffering in Life of Suso Henry Suso (c. 1295-1366), like Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) and John Tauler (1290-1361), is one of the most important Dominican thinkers in Deutche Mystik. This paper treats his autobiographic and confessional book, Life of Suso (Vita)1, to discuss his idea of love and reconciliation with others. 1-1 The path of spiritual exercise – from lower school to advanced school In Vita, Chapters 1-18 in part one, it concerns “lower school”, and after Chapter 19, it concerns “advanced school”. After his conversion, Suso began his true religious life. He determined to live a servant of Eternal Wisdom (Vita, III, 14). And he tried to practice the exercise of lower school very hard. The bodily and spiritual exercise of lower school is to learn how to control human nature. It is nothing other than to make body and flesh subject to the spirit. Suso kept on practicing this “outward exercises”, “exterior penitential exercises” (Vita, XV, 39). Inside friary, he engaged this monastic asceticism from his eighteenth to his fortieth year (Vita, XVIII, 52). 1-2 The meaning of suffering in the divine chivalry – spiritual exercise of “advanced school Though it was very profitable for a beginner to be closed off from everything inside friary, Suso could