林漢堅. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學, 1989. / Reprint of manuscript. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [450-530]). / Lin Hanjian. / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 1989. / 前言 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一章 --- 夏承碑之發現和現況 --- p.5 / Chapter 甲 --- 建碑時間和地點 / Chapter 乙 --- 出土時間，情況與有關記錄 / Chapter 丙 --- 今日現況 / Chapter 丁 --- 註釋 / Chapter 第二章 --- 夏承碑碑文內容研究 --- p.27 / Chapter 甲 --- 碑文集釋 / Chapter 乙 --- 夏承生平考 / Chapter 丙 --- 註釋 / Chapter 第三章 --- 夏承碑字形學研究 --- p.96 / Chapter 甲 --- 夏承碑重要文字源流大變 / Chapter 乙 --- 隸變文字 / Chapter 丙 --- 訛異字 / Chapter 丁 --- 篆體文字 / Chapter 戊 --- 註釋 / Chapter 第四章 --- 夏承碑拓本研究 --- p.131 / Chapter <一> --- 拓本研究 / Chapter 甲 --- 臨川李宗瀚藏宋拓本研究 / Chapter 乙 --- 臨川李氏本各種鉤摹臨寫本 / Chapter 丙 --- 伊秉綬本研究 / Chapter 丁 --- 孫仲牆本研究 / Chapter 戊 --- 孫仲牆本臨本 / Chapter 己 --- 其他拓本 / Chapter 庚 --- 註釋 / Chapter 第五章 --- 夏承碑書法藝術研究 --- p.236 / Chapter 甲 --- 原石形制考 / Chapter 乙 --- 書法藝術研究 / Chapter 丙 --- 書者研究 / Chapter 丁 --- 刻工研究 / Chapter 戊 --- 註釋 / Chapter 第六章 --- 夏承碑的書學地位 --- p.342 / Chapter 甲 --- 歷代有關夏承碑的評價 / Chapter 乙 --- 侯鏡昶評《夏承碑》及「華美派」對後世上書風之影響 / Chapter 丙 --- 筆者對 《夏承碑》書學地位之評估 / Chapter 丁 --- 註釋 / 總論 --- p.425 / 附錄 --- p.460 / Chapter 甲 --- 附表 --- p.460 / Chapter 乙 --- 參考書目 --- p.494 / Chapter 丙 --- 图版 --- p.576

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This thesis is basically in line with a common standpoint according to which Adam Smith's methodology deserves to be given the main priority in order to understand best his system of moral philosophy or `social science' in a modern sense. In this connection Smith's `metaphysics' is treated as an extremely important element to which our attention has to be drawn when we are concerned with his system of social science. This point of view differs primarily from an interpretative framework which seems to be still influential; a perspective from which a linkage between metaphysics and science is ignored. Instead, this work is based on the argument that metaphysics which may be defined as confirmable yet irrefutable (thus extra-scientific) doctrines is at work in the background of scientific activities in such as way that the former proposes an outline of scientific research in terms of providing a general outlook whereby a coherent type of data may be sorted out, arranged and organized. The `predominant' aim of this work on the basis of the view just mentioned is to seek a linkage between Smith's study of natural theology, which is responsible for providing an influential metaphysical doctrine, and other disciplines such as ethics and economics in his scheme of moral philosophy. I begin by identifying Smith's three metaphysical doctrines, the doctrine of mechanistic determinism, organismic philosophy, and the belief in a benevolent God (Chapter 2). Chapter 3 is designed to identify Smith's metatheoretical principles which, in conjunction with his metaphysics which is rooted in his theological outlook, serve to regulate or shape his `theoretical' analysis of man and society.

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This thesis outlines and defends a MacIntyrean account of contemporary work. MacIntyre's virtue ethics seems to entail a wholesale rejection of the modern order; throughout his writings MacIntyre is highly critical of capitalism, large-scale modern institutions, management, regulation, and indeed of our whole 'emotivistic' culture (as he sees it) which he regards as being inimical to our potential to virtuously flourish. MacIntyre's mature period, from After Virtue (2007, originally published 1981) contains much that is relevant to a philosophy of work. I will develop and update MacIntyre's own arguments and I will also argue that contemporary working life can be more MacIntyrean than MacIntyre himself realises. Because both work as a topic, and the relevant parts of MacIntyre's writings are extremely diverse, my strategy will be to examine the different key elements of a MacIntyrean philosophy of work without decontextualising the key notions of practices, virtues and institutions from MacIntyre's wider moral philosophy. I will argue that MacIntyre's key concept of a practice, the first stage in his definition of a virtue, is able to account for productive activities and can survive a variety of challenges. We are best able to make sense of the notion of the narrative unity of a whole life, the second stage in MacIntyre's definition of a virtue, if we distinguish between lived-narratives and the told-narratives that best allow us to understand our lives. Despite his broad endorsement of Marx's critique of capitalism, a MacIntyrean account of work differs from Marx's theory of alienation. I will argue that a fully MacIntyrean workplace will be small-scale, will not pressurise employees to identify with compartmentalised roles, and will allow trust to flourish. However, because MacIntyre overstates the extent to which people accept the definitions of ‘success’ that are dominant within modernity, he is unable to see the extent to which MacIntyrean communities can survive the threats posed by contemporary corporations. Another element of MacIntyre's account of work which needs modification is his critique of the character of the manager, and I will offer an emendation of this in order to make it applicable to contemporary forms of management. Finally I show that distinctively modern phenomena of workplace governance and regulation can serve MacIntyrean ends and can allow us to codify broadly MacIntyrean workplace initiatives. However, because of the deep context-sensitivity of the key MacIntyrean notions: practices, narrative-unity, and communities, such measures resist detailed and explicit formulation. My aim is to defend MacIntyre, to deepen our understanding of what a MacIntyrean philosophy of work entails, and to show that and how good work exists even within modernity.

The doctoral thesis Who Am I? Subjectivities in the Society of Accountability aims to demonstrate that accountability is one of the most powerful processes of subjectivation in our contemporary era. The background is constituted by ordinary daily practices, born from the propagation of digital media in the last twenty years. Accountability is defined as the peculiar anthropotechnic that derives from the extension of the subject in the form of the account. Account is defined as every extension of the subject in the digital world, so that these extensions are univocally attributable to a singular physical body of a singular human being. The concept of subjectivity is considered as outlined by Michel Foucault in the period 1977-1984. The dissertation also aims to demonstrate that the society of control, investigated by Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, finds its present fulfillment in the form of the society of accountability. Accountability is considered in three moments, connected by a circular movement instead of a causal sequence. The first moment describes how dispositives act on subjects. The scene of address is constituted by the request of performativity made by dispositives to the subject. This request takes place in the account, to be understood as the interface between dispositives and subjects. Secondly, the same process is taken in consideration from the point of view of the subject, who is invited to answer the question: Who am I? Thus the subject understands him/herself as a subjectivity without ground, because the hermeneutics of the self, derived from dispositives, finds the foreclosure of the referent as its foundation. In a third moment accountability is considered from the point of view of the statements (énoncés). The conversion of statements into information, and the statistical inferences operated on it (basically, the processes related to big data), are the focus of this moment. The outcome of this analysis is a second hermeneutics of the subject, characterised by the discourse of the master. Convergences and divergences between this (digital) hermeneutics, the Christian hermeneutics derived from the confession and the Cartesian moment are explored in order to outline the actual accountability as pastoral power and discourse of the master at the same time. In conclusion, accountability is considered as a possible ethics. If anomie and anonymity are excluded as far as they exclude the scene of address, and consequently the very possibility of existence of a bios, the valorisation of opacity is identified as the grounding of a possible ethical action based on freedom, an exercise of freedom to be understood as resilience to the complete panoptical visibility and the consequential proceduralisation of the scene of address.

by J. Keilson and L.D. Servi. / "September 1987." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 16-17).

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Bibliography: leaves 336-344 / 344 leaves ; 31 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, 1985

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