执政党理性、公共理性与我国的政治现代化

现代公共理性应成为沟通、协调和统一工具理性与价值理性、个人理性与国家理性、大众理性与精英理性的中介与桥梁。在现代社会里,执政党的活动只有置于公共领域的监督和批判之下,其决策和管理过程才更体现公共理性,即决策和管理具有公共性、民意性、正当性和合法性。执政党的现代化也是执政党由个体理性走向公共理性的过程。

Reason, Public Reason of the Ruling Party and Political Modernization in Our Country

Modern public reason should become a medium and bridge in communication,coordination,and unity of public reason and the reason of value,individual reason and that of the country,the mass reason and that of the elites.In modern society, the activities of the ruling party has to be subjected to the supervision and criticism of the public sphere before its process of decision and administration could be the embodiment of public reason,that is,its decision and administration bear the nature of the public,the mentality of the majority,righteousness,and legitimacy.The modernization of a ruling party is also a process of its coming from the individual reason to the public reason.