摘要
当前西方危机与现代性危机最深刻的症候,是在其最高知识权威的影响下,现代后期的某些学说(列奥·施特劳斯所谓的历史主义、相对主义学说)撼动了西方人的根基,人们丧失了方向感。这种理论上的危机带来的实际后果主要表现在:一种本来意义上的政治哲学所要求的普遍有效方式去解答对错、好坏问题不再可能。既然现代性的危机源于对现代政治哲学隐含的这个前提的表达,那么,现代性批判的中心课题是对现代理性主义或对理性之现代信仰的批判,它逻辑地包含了对恒久和普遍美好生活原则的辩护,试图恢复人们的自信,以便能够合理地赋予价值判断以效力。
The most deepest sign of the present crisis of the West and of modernity is, under the influence of its highest intellectual authorites, late modern doctrines （Leo Strauss called ＂historicism＇and＂relativism＇）shake the West its foundations. Men lose their sense of direction. This theoretical crisis in the last analysis has consequences for the practical crisis insofar as it made political philosophy in its original form to judge what is wrong/right, and what is good/bad impossible in a universal way. Since the crisis of modernity results from the expressions of what is implied in the premises of modern political philosophy, the central concern of critic modernity is then critiquing modern rationalism and modern faith, logically, it includes the efforts to seek eternal and universal principle for good life, try to recover the self-confidence of people, so as to give the value-judgement resonable effectiveness.
出处
《学术月刊》
CSSCI
北大核心
2008年第12期33-39,共7页
Academic Monthly
关键词
现代性
政治哲学
理性
历史
modernity, political philosophy, ration, history
