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To purchase or authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9795.2007.00326.x Byline: Qingping Liu (1) Keywords: Christianity; love of God; love of neighbor; religious hatred; paradox Abstract: ABSTRACT The two love commands attributed to Jesus clearly show the basic feature of Christianity as a 'religion of love.' However, it may be argued that there is conflict between these commands, so that the Christian idea of love confronts a deep paradox: on the one hand, it takes loving God as the ultimate foundation of loving one's neighbor and loving one's neighbor as the perfect manifestation of loving God. On the other hand, it gives supremacy to loving God over loving one's neighbor, with the result that, in cases of conflict, Christianity has to sacrifice loving one's neighbor to loving God and thus to negate the second great command by the first. Author Affiliation: (1)Beijing Normal University

In his dialogue with Zai Wo about the three-year mourning, Confucius establishes a principle of 'justification by feeling at ease,' and insists that one should transcend natural desires by moral emotions. More significantly, he further regards kinship love as the ultimate root and supreme principle of human life. Thus, this dialogue contains almost all the basic elements of the Confucian spirit of consanguineous affection.

I Confucianism is often praised as a doctrine that highlights both the individual and social dimensions of the ideal person, for it puts special emphasis on such lofty goals as […]

Mencius regards the `heart of commiseration' as the `beginning of humaneness,' so as to set up a universal and sufficient foundation for the Confucian ideal of humane love in the human `heart-nature'. Through a close and critical analysis of the very text of the Mencius, however, this essay tries to show that if in the light of the fundamental spirit of Confucianism, especially in the light of the principles of `one root' and `love with distinctions' advocated by Mencius himself in his criticisms on Moist school, this doctrine is not tenable exactly within the Confucian framework, with the result that the ideal of humane love is always rootless in Confucian theory.

Vitamins E and C are important antioxidants in animals. Their antemortem activity continues to function in postmortem muscle (meat), where they have a critical role in maintaining quality in the food product. Dietary supplementation of vitamin E, and intravenous infusion of vitamin C immediately before harvest, are efficacious techniques for increasing the concentration of these vitamins in beef skeletal muscle. Meat with elevated levels of either and probably both of these antioxidant vitamins possesses greater stability of oxymyogiobin and lipid, which results in less discoloration and rancidity, respectively. A model is proposed for the redox relationships between myoglobin and phospholipid in beef with emphasis on vitamins E and C. Antemortem nutritional intervention appears to be a promising approach for improving the quality of fresh meat products subsequently obtained from livestock. INDEXING KEY WORDS: cattle; myoglobin; lipid; [Alpha]-tocopherol; ascorbic acid