OPEN A BOOK,OPEN THE WORLD
The author of this book came to Taiwan in 1988 and has stayed on this island since then. Living in a different culture for 28 years and seeing how the Taiwan nation’s identity changed rapidly under the influence of different political discourses, he continued to develop his observations on paradigms based on his knowledge learnt in the USA as well as Taiwan.
In this book, the author analyzes discourses from physics to metaphysics, finding reasons why conflicts remain among human beings holding different beliefs or paradigms. He then proposes a question: why, as world citizens, can’t human beings develop a new, tolerant paradigm to unite the whole world?
As the author says in the preface, what the book does is “present a needed direction for the future…by posing questions”. Through this book, readers can think further of the paradigms that generate our decisions and behavior in life. Furthermore, they can also join in exploring a paradigm of uniting the world.
教授1988結合所學與生活、時事觀察，Keating<span style="ˊfont-size:" 12pt;="" font-family:="" "新細明體",serif;="" mso-bidi-font-size:="" 10.0pt;="" mso-font-kerning:="" 1.0pt;="" mso-ascii-font-family:="" "times="" new="" roman";="" mso-hansi-font-family:="" mso-ansi-language:="" en-us;="" mso-fareast-language:="" zh-tw;="" mso-bidi-language:="" ar-sa;="" mso-bidi-font-family:="" roman"ˊ="">教授完成這一部探討「範式」的著作。「範式」是指做學問時，各門各派發展理論的思維方式。作者在書中探討生活中不同的範式、價值觀如何形成，又如何彼此衝突對立、造成人類歷史上大大小小的戰爭。他提出一種可能，就是發展一個「地球村」的範式，創造一個宏大、兼容並蓄的思維討論和意見觀點。透過這樣的拋磚引玉，啟發讀者思考什麼樣的範式主宰我們的思想，又該如何使用不同的思維讓世界更美好。
