In this project, I raised three methodological issues regarding contemporary studies of moral change and moral progress. The first concerns how philosophers typically think about moral history. The second focuses on the explanatory model of the shift of morality, and the last deals with the prescriptions for moral intervention. Based on the three criticisms, I propose the “person-centric” model as the new paradigm for studying the historical shift of morality. Different from current accounts that follow a knowledge-centric model, the person-centric (...) model requires that we identify the moral values, struggles, and dilemmas crucial to people’s moral life, and develop new perspectives from them to further the study of moral change. (shrink)

恶的起源是熊十力（1885— 1968）晚年著作《明心篇》焦点问题之一。熊先生认为释迦牟尼佛和他的后学从来没有提出“痴惑” 的起源问题: “人生诚有黑暗的方面，孰是有智而堪否认？但痴惑何处起此一问题，释迦氏与其后学始终不曾提出。” 无明和愚痴两个烦恼是痛苦和罪恶的肇因。他的意思是，尽管佛教徒把无明作为十二因缘的开始，但他们没有进一步追查无明等烦恼的本体来源。《明心篇》 的目的之一就是要做到佛教徒所没有做到的。本文试图论证熊十力和南宋理学魁首朱熹（1130— 1200）在各自的核心理论的架构上具有一定的同构性。 这就意味着，或者熊十力有意地参照、吸取了朱熹本人的理论架构，或者（抑或而且）熊十力有意地参照、吸取了朱熹所吸取的理论架构。 -/- .

This article is basically an artist's statement published in connection with a major interdisciplinary art project currently in development (completion date estimated to be 2020).