Rationalization without Tradition: A Chinese perspective on Weber

在韦伯笔下,理性化,作为现代西方独有的普遍历史现象,系统地借助了一种反传统的力量来造就现代生活的生活之道和社会秩序。理性化与传统的这一关系,构成了西方与东方(特别是中国)的关键差别。西方理性化这样一种反传统的“传统”,根源于伦理先知对自然人伦关系的怀疑和拒弃,以及相应对陌生人构成的“博爱共同体”的向往。而现代中国人生活的可能性,在很大程度上,取决于能否在对抗历史命运的自由努力中重建具有内在精神气质的“伦理秩序”。

Rationalization is，according to Max Weber，of the universal historical significance. It leads to the modern reformation of Lebensfürung and social order by virtue of its systematic subversion of tradition. This antithesis between rationalization and tradition distinguishes the modern West from other culture worlds. This systematic subversion of tradition Weber detects in the Western Rationalization results from the doubt or even denial of the natural ethical relations in various philiai，and the prophetic zeal for the so-called objektlose Liebeakosmismus. The prospect of the modern Chinese way of life depends on the possibility to revitalize her own “ethos” in the struggle with the universal history of rationalization.

李猛

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