Bart Dessein
Biographic Data
| ID | 6277778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bart Dessein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bart |
| FAMILY NAME | Dessein |
| SIGNATURE | DESSEIN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8853-9665 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
EU–China relations after the 2024 European elections
The Third Plenum of the Twentieth Party Congress
Jones, C.V. The Buddhist Self
Mei-Fang Fan, Deliberative Democracy in Taiwan
Coping with Covid and the Myth of a Collective China
Reflecting on the development of the global economic system, the present article describes the phenomenon of hyper-individualism in the age of “second modernity” and, making a distinction between the “family collective” and the “patriotic collective”, discusses the individual’s oscillating loyalty between the family and the nation state in this process. An answer is sought to the question why, in the contemporary period, individuals who are confr…
Pedagogical content knowledge
The increasing attention on Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) pronunciation instruction gives us an opportunity to look into the current directions of teaching CFL and the specific instructional pronunciation strategies employed by CFL teachers. This paper offers a review of empirical evidence on the use and impact of instructional pronunciation strategies in the CFL field from 1980 to 2019. Our findings reveal that: (1) controlled segmental‐ba…
Seng Zhao’s The Immutability of Things and Responses to It in the Late Ming Dynasty
Seng Zhao and his collection of treatises, the Zhao lun, have enjoyed a particularly high reputation in the history of Chinese Buddhism. One of these treatises, The Immutability of Things, employs the Madhyamaka argumentative method of negating dualistic concepts to demonstrate that, while “immutability” and “mutability” coexist as the states of phenomenal things, neither possesses independent self-nature. More than a thousand years after this te…
Politicized Society
The Heritage of Taixu
Much scholarly attention has been devoted to the way the Chinese intellectual world tried to formulate an answer to the challenge posed by European modernity, as well as to the way European political thinking (nationalism, socialism, communism, anarchism) impacted traditional Chinese political thinking. In contrast, very little attention has been devoted to the way these same political philosophies also influenced the Chinese Buddhist answer to E…
Guo Moruo on Nationalism and Supranationalism
In Chinese literary history, it is especially the work of Guo Moruo 郭沫若(1892-1978) that postdates his self-declared conversion to Marx-ism a transition that allegedly occurred in 1924 after he had read the theories of the Japanese economist Kawakami Hajime 河上肇(1879-1946), while in Japan that has been studied. This paper will, howev-er, focus on Guo Moruo's thinking prior to his conversion to Marx-ism. This will, more precisely, be done through an…
Guo Moruo on Marx and Confucius
Through the analysis of two of Guo Moruo’s literary works––his “Marx Enters a Confucian Temple” published in 1926, and “Confucius Eats” published in 1935––Guo Moruo’s assessment of Confucius and Marx is discussed. It is shown how Guo Moruo, although being a self-declared Marxist, kept on adhering to some Confucian principles, and how this attitude of his helps to explain why Guo Moruo, after having been criticized in the “pi Kong pi Lin” campaign…
Drawing topological properties from a multi-layered network
In the last few years, theoretical studies have examined a variety of topological properties in single-layered transport systems. One outstanding question concerns how topological properties would be presented in a multi layered network. This paper aims to address this issue with the help of real data from "the Belt and Road" (the B&R) region. The air transport network in this region was selected as a case study because of its associated demand f…
Yearning for the Lost Paradise
In the course of China’s history, the term datong (great unity) has been interpreted in multiple ways. This article first discusses the concept as understood in the Liji, and then focuses on the way in which the perceived loss of the “great unity” within “all-under-heaven” (tianxia) at the end of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), and the endeavor to reconstruct the empire as a modern nation-state starting in the early twentieth century, informed the …
On ‘dark learning,’ uncertain times, and how Immanuel Kant revived Confucianism
European presence in China starting from the second half of the nineteenth century was as important culturally as it was of direct military or economic importance. The more radical intellectuals of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries turned away from Confucianism and believed in progress and in the liberating forces of reason and the natural sciences. Another group of intellectuals attempted to revive China's traditional culture…
Progress and Free Will
An even only cursory glance at the way Buddhism is experienced, interpreted, and lived in the contemporary world––both Western and Oriental––reveals Buddhism’s multiple “modern faces”. This paper does not intend to describe all or even a selected group of these many faces, but attempts to contribute to our understanding of how peculiar developments within Buddhist philosophy have made it possible that such a variety of “Buddhist modernities” coul…
Interpreting China as a Regional and Global Power
This volume is a collection of essays that discuss the rise of China in the contemporary global world against the country's Confucian imperial past and its nationalist past (historical consciousness) and that provide possible interpretations of nationalism in contemporary China. Special focus goes to China's geopolitical position and the functioning of China in organizations of global governance.
The Significance of the Buddhist 10-Membered Formula of Dependent Origination
The dynamic process of karmic activity is one of the key philosophical concepts of the Buddhist doctrine, and is traditionally explained as the operation of a chain of 12 mutually interlinked members of dependent origination (pratītyasamutpāda). Textual research, however, reveals that a series of alternative chains of members of dependent origination coexisted prior to the systematization of this earlier textual material into the standardized lis…
Faith and Politics
This paper discusses how, in contemporary China, politico-religious narratives that reiterate the country’s Confucian tradition serve to create a sense of belonging and sharedness in a community, and provide a way to interpret this community and the contemporary Chinese nation as having a divine mission. As these Chinese foundational myths combine elements of Confucianism with patriotism and nationalism, they can be interpreted as a constitutive …
Time, Temporality, and the Characteristic Marks of the Conditioned
According to the Buddhist concept of ‘dependent origination’ (pratītyasamutpāda), discrete factors come into existence because of a combination of causes (hetu) and conditions (pratyaya). Such discrete factors, further, are combinations of five aggregates (pañ caskandha) that, themselves, are subject to constant change. Discrete factors, therefore, lack a self-nature (ātman). The passing through time of discrete factors is characterized by the ‘c…
Contaminants and the Path to Salvation
The Saṃgītiparyāya is the earliest Sarvāstivāda philosophical text that enumerates a series of contaminants (anuśaya), i.e. innate proclivities, inherited from former births, to do something of usually evil nature. This early list comprises seven such contaminants. As it is the contaminants that lead a worldling (pṛthagjana) to doing volitional actions and thus to forming a karmic result (karmavipāka), these contaminants naturally also bear on th…
Of Seeds and Sprouts
The notions of selflessness (anātmaka) and karman are two key concepts in Buddhist philosophy. The question how karman functions with respect to the rebirth of a worldling who is, actually, devoid of a self, was a major philosophical issue in early Buddhist doctrine. Within the Sarvāstivāda school, the Vaibhā[sdot]ikas became the representative of an interpretation of this problem that hinges on the notion of ‘possession’ (prāpti). Their theory w…
Vaibhasika Impact
.
The Heritage of Taixu
Much scholarly attention has been devoted to the way the Chinese intellectual world tried to formulate an answer to the challenge posed by European modernity, as well as to the way European political thinking (nationalism, socialism, communism, anarchism) impacted traditional Chinese political thinking. In contrast, very little attention has been devoted to the way these same political philosophies also influenced the Chinese Buddhist answer to E…
Yearning for the Lost Paradise
In the course of China’s history, the term datong (great unity) has been interpreted in multiple ways. This article first discusses the concept as understood in the Liji, and then focuses on the way in which the perceived loss of the “great unity” within “all-under-heaven” (tianxia) at the end of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), and the endeavor to reconstruct the empire as a modern nation-state starting in the early twentieth century, informed the …
Faith and Politics
This paper discusses how, in contemporary China, politico-religious narratives that reiterate the country’s Confucian tradition serve to create a sense of belonging and sharedness in a community, and provide a way to interpret this community and the contemporary Chinese nation as having a divine mission. As these Chinese foundational myths combine elements of Confucianism with patriotism and nationalism, they can be interpreted as a constitutive …
Guo Moruo on Marx and Confucius
Through the analysis of two of Guo Moruo’s literary works––his “Marx Enters a Confucian Temple” published in 1926, and “Confucius Eats” published in 1935––Guo Moruo’s assessment of Confucius and Marx is discussed. It is shown how Guo Moruo, although being a self-declared Marxist, kept on adhering to some Confucian principles, and how this attitude of his helps to explain why Guo Moruo, after having been criticized in the “pi Kong pi Lin” campaign…
Drawing topological properties from a multi-layered network
In the last few years, theoretical studies have examined a variety of topological properties in single-layered transport systems. One outstanding question concerns how topological properties would be presented in a multi layered network. This paper aims to address this issue with the help of real data from "the Belt and Road" (the B&R) region. The air transport network in this region was selected as a case study because of its associated demand f…
Progress and Free Will
An even only cursory glance at the way Buddhism is experienced, interpreted, and lived in the contemporary world––both Western and Oriental––reveals Buddhism’s multiple “modern faces”. This paper does not intend to describe all or even a selected group of these many faces, but attempts to contribute to our understanding of how peculiar developments within Buddhist philosophy have made it possible that such a variety of “Buddhist modernities” coul…
Vaibhasika Impact
.
Of Seeds and Sprouts
The notions of selflessness (anātmaka) and karman are two key concepts in Buddhist philosophy. The question how karman functions with respect to the rebirth of a worldling who is, actually, devoid of a self, was a major philosophical issue in early Buddhist doctrine. Within the Sarvāstivāda school, the Vaibhā[sdot]ikas became the representative of an interpretation of this problem that hinges on the notion of ‘possession’ (prāpti). Their theory w…
Contaminants and the Path to Salvation
The Saṃgītiparyāya is the earliest Sarvāstivāda philosophical text that enumerates a series of contaminants (anuśaya), i.e. innate proclivities, inherited from former births, to do something of usually evil nature. This early list comprises seven such contaminants. As it is the contaminants that lead a worldling (pṛthagjana) to doing volitional actions and thus to forming a karmic result (karmavipāka), these contaminants naturally also bear on th…
Time, Temporality, and the Characteristic Marks of the Conditioned
According to the Buddhist concept of ‘dependent origination’ (pratītyasamutpāda), discrete factors come into existence because of a combination of causes (hetu) and conditions (pratyaya). Such discrete factors, further, are combinations of five aggregates (pañ caskandha) that, themselves, are subject to constant change. Discrete factors, therefore, lack a self-nature (ātman). The passing through time of discrete factors is characterized by the ‘c…
Interpreting China as a Regional and Global Power
This volume is a collection of essays that discuss the rise of China in the contemporary global world against the country's Confucian imperial past and its nationalist past (historical consciousness) and that provide possible interpretations of nationalism in contemporary China. Special focus goes to China's geopolitical position and the functioning of China in organizations of global governance.
The Significance of the Buddhist 10-Membered Formula of Dependent Origination
The dynamic process of karmic activity is one of the key philosophical concepts of the Buddhist doctrine, and is traditionally explained as the operation of a chain of 12 mutually interlinked members of dependent origination (pratītyasamutpāda). Textual research, however, reveals that a series of alternative chains of members of dependent origination coexisted prior to the systematization of this earlier textual material into the standardized lis…
Faith and Politics
This paper discusses how, in contemporary China, politico-religious narratives that reiterate the country’s Confucian tradition serve to create a sense of belonging and sharedness in a community, and provide a way to interpret this community and the contemporary Chinese nation as having a divine mission. As these Chinese foundational myths combine elements of Confucianism with patriotism and nationalism, they can be interpreted as a constitutive …
On ‘dark learning,’ uncertain times, and how Immanuel Kant revived Confucianism
European presence in China starting from the second half of the nineteenth century was as important culturally as it was of direct military or economic importance. The more radical intellectuals of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries turned away from Confucianism and believed in progress and in the liberating forces of reason and the natural sciences. Another group of intellectuals attempted to revive China's traditional culture…
Progress and Free Will
An even only cursory glance at the way Buddhism is experienced, interpreted, and lived in the contemporary world––both Western and Oriental––reveals Buddhism’s multiple “modern faces”. This paper does not intend to describe all or even a selected group of these many faces, but attempts to contribute to our understanding of how peculiar developments within Buddhist philosophy have made it possible that such a variety of “Buddhist modernities” coul…
Yearning for the Lost Paradise
In the course of China’s history, the term datong (great unity) has been interpreted in multiple ways. This article first discusses the concept as understood in the Liji, and then focuses on the way in which the perceived loss of the “great unity” within “all-under-heaven” (tianxia) at the end of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), and the endeavor to reconstruct the empire as a modern nation-state starting in the early twentieth century, informed the …
Guo Moruo on Nationalism and Supranationalism
In Chinese literary history, it is especially the work of Guo Moruo 郭沫若(1892-1978) that postdates his self-declared conversion to Marx-ism a transition that allegedly occurred in 1924 after he had read the theories of the Japanese economist Kawakami Hajime 河上肇(1879-1946), while in Japan that has been studied. This paper will, howev-er, focus on Guo Moruo's thinking prior to his conversion to Marx-ism. This will, more precisely, be done through an…
Guo Moruo on Marx and Confucius
Through the analysis of two of Guo Moruo’s literary works––his “Marx Enters a Confucian Temple” published in 1926, and “Confucius Eats” published in 1935––Guo Moruo’s assessment of Confucius and Marx is discussed. It is shown how Guo Moruo, although being a self-declared Marxist, kept on adhering to some Confucian principles, and how this attitude of his helps to explain why Guo Moruo, after having been criticized in the “pi Kong pi Lin” campaign…
Drawing topological properties from a multi-layered network
In the last few years, theoretical studies have examined a variety of topological properties in single-layered transport systems. One outstanding question concerns how topological properties would be presented in a multi layered network. This paper aims to address this issue with the help of real data from "the Belt and Road" (the B&R) region. The air transport network in this region was selected as a case study because of its associated demand f…
Seng Zhao’s The Immutability of Things and Responses to It in the Late Ming Dynasty
Seng Zhao and his collection of treatises, the Zhao lun, have enjoyed a particularly high reputation in the history of Chinese Buddhism. One of these treatises, The Immutability of Things, employs the Madhyamaka argumentative method of negating dualistic concepts to demonstrate that, while “immutability” and “mutability” coexist as the states of phenomenal things, neither possesses independent self-nature. More than a thousand years after this te…
Politicized Society
The Heritage of Taixu
Much scholarly attention has been devoted to the way the Chinese intellectual world tried to formulate an answer to the challenge posed by European modernity, as well as to the way European political thinking (nationalism, socialism, communism, anarchism) impacted traditional Chinese political thinking. In contrast, very little attention has been devoted to the way these same political philosophies also influenced the Chinese Buddhist answer to E…
Pedagogical content knowledge
The increasing attention on Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) pronunciation instruction gives us an opportunity to look into the current directions of teaching CFL and the specific instructional pronunciation strategies employed by CFL teachers. This paper offers a review of empirical evidence on the use and impact of instructional pronunciation strategies in the CFL field from 1980 to 2019. Our findings reveal that: (1) controlled segmental‐ba…
Jones, C.V. The Buddhist Self
Mei-Fang Fan, Deliberative Democracy in Taiwan
Coping with Covid and the Myth of a Collective China
Reflecting on the development of the global economic system, the present article describes the phenomenon of hyper-individualism in the age of “second modernity” and, making a distinction between the “family collective” and the “patriotic collective”, discusses the individual’s oscillating loyalty between the family and the nation state in this process. An answer is sought to the question why, in the contemporary period, individuals who are confr…
EU–China relations after the 2024 European elections
The Third Plenum of the Twentieth Party Congress
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