论虚无主义价值观及其文化效应

从文化质态上看,在西方社会长期发生作用的基督教传统,严格设定了一条区分神圣与邪恶的道德边界。但随着现代性的生成,这条边界被一步步蚕食了,其典型标志就是尼采所谓“上帝死了”的纲领性口号的提出。上帝既死,就再无神圣的道德法庭,谓之价值虚无。由于“一切皆虚妄”可以合乎逻辑地推论出“一切皆允许”,因此,虚无主义价值观的广泛流行,必将滋育或助长一种以越界和放纵为特征的生存方式。

On the Values of Nihilism and Their Cultural Effect

The Christian traditions that have long predominated the West culturally specify a strict moral boundary between holiness and evil. With emergence of modernity, however, this boundary is being encroached, culminating in Nietzsche s slogan of "God is dead". Since God is dead, the holy moral court no longer exists, which results in value nihilism. As " everything is allowable" ensues from " everything is nihilist" , the wide spread of nihilist values will inevitably breed or encourage a style of existence characterized by transgression and indulgence.