摘要
我们应该如何理解现代人道主义的起源?这些起源是现代资本主义的结构性决定的吗?本文重点关注现代人道主义形成的关键时期,即18世纪80年代末期废除英国奴隶贸易的运动,并批判性地审视了一项长期的历史编纂学传统,即将经济结构置于特殊地位,视为这场运动崛起的最终决定因素。但通过将其置于历史背景中,早期废奴主义揭示了经济领域与道德领域之间的复杂因果联系和相互依赖,这些关系是不可能从资本主义逻辑中得出的。这种因果关系的复杂性对一个普遍的假设提出质疑,这个假设认为,人道主义是假定存在的更深层的经济体系结构性力量的表现。而这种因果关系复杂性也需要我们在合适的因果背景下重新从分析上关注人道主义实践的实证形式,重新关注人道主义对其他社会领域的因果作用。
How do we understand the origins of modern humanitarianism and were these origins structurally determined by modern capitalism?This article focuses on a critical juncture in the formation of modern humanitarianism, the late eighteenth century movement for the abolition of the British slave trade and examines critically an established historiographic tradition that privileges economic structures as the ultimate determinant of the movement's rise. Placed in its historical context, early abolitionism reveals complex causal connections and interdependencies between the economic and the moral spheres that are impossible to derive from the logic of capitalism. This causal complexity questions a general assumption that humanitarianism is an epiphenomenal manifestation of the putatively deeper structural forces of the economy and requires renewed analytical attention to empirical forms of humanitarian practice in their proper causal context and to humanitarianism's casual influences on other societal fields.
出处
《国际社会科学杂志（中文版）》
2017年第3期31-42,5,6,共14页
International Social Science Journal（Chinese Edition）
基金
研究项目(ERC Consolidator Grant 648429 TRANSPOP)的部分资助
