探索与争鸣 ›› 2022, Vol. 1 ›› Issue (5): 48-57.

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当代家国关系再反思|家-国之结与家哲学的黯淡前景

谭安奎   

  • 出版日期:2022-05-24 发布日期:2022-05-24

The Family-State Entanglement and the Dim Future of Family Philosophy

  • Online:2022-05-24 Published:2022-05-24

摘要:

西方政治理论一直以政治观念塑造家庭想象,而不是设想从家庭延伸出政治。但个人主义的现代政治理论基于工具论的国家观让家庭完全缺席,其代价则是回避了政治社会的持续再生产问题。家所蕴含的在世代中存在的源发性经验可以为此打开本体论上的空间,但却引发了本体论与伦理学之间的张力。现代国家需要家庭发挥教化之功,乃是以家庭的中心从纵向的世代关系转向横向的夫妻关系为前提的,此时,作为人为产物的家庭为我们提供了把国家理解为建构性政治共同体的伦理范式。但以横向关系为中心的家庭观,恰恰又意味着现代政治在本体论上的无根性。家国关系在功能、本体、伦理维度间的复杂纠缠,预示了家哲学在现代社会中的黯淡前景。

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Abstract:

The western political theories have been modeling the image of family in terms of political ideas without imaging the derivation of politics from family. But the family has been absent in modern individualist political theories due to their instrumental conception of state, and this approach completely ignored the lasting reproduction of political society. The original experiences of being between generations contained in family offer some ontological resources for the theorization of this reproduction, but it implies a tension between ontology and ethics. Modern states rely on the family for education because the core of family has undergone a transition from the vertical intergenerational relation to the horizontal conjugal. Under this background, the family as an artificial product exemplifies an ethical paradigm for us to take state as a constructive political community. But the conception of family focusing on the horizontal relation, once again, implies the ontological groundless of modern politics. The complicated entanglement among the functional, ontological and ethical dimensions of the family-state relation foreshadows the dim future of family philosophy in the modern society.

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