启蒙与道德的变奏——霍克海默、阿多诺《启蒙辩证法》的道德界域

对霍克海默、阿多诺而言，启蒙的辩证法就是理性历史的辩证法。而对康德而言，人类理性的再次觉醒就是启蒙。可以说，整个近代西方的启蒙运动都是理性再次觉醒的过程。霍克海默和阿多诺的《启蒙辩证法》以深层的文化批判精神为动力对启蒙以来的技术理性主义至上的文化价值观念进行批判和反思，进而得出结论：那就是神话就已是启蒙，而启蒙却倒退成为神话。启蒙精神不仅包含着从野蛮到文明的进步过程。同时也包含着由文明再次进入野蛮的退步过程。这就是神话与启蒙相纠缠、文明与野蛮相伴随的辩证法。

Development of Enlightenment and Morality——Moral Scope of Enlightenment Dialectic of Horkheimer and Adorno

Enlightening dialectic is the rational historical dialectic to Horkheimer, Adomo . The humanity rational reawakens is enlightening to Kant. It is said that the entire modem Western the enlightenment is a process of rational reawakens. Horkheimer and Adorno took the deep cultural critique spirit as the power and criticized technical rationalism supreme culture value idea from the enlightenment origin in their Enlightening dialectic, then draws the conclusion： the myth already is an enlightenment, but the enlightenment actually backed up into the myth. The enlightenment spirit is not only containing from the barbarism to the civilized progressive process, simultaneously also containing is a regresses process from civilization to once more entering barbarism. It is dialectic that myth and enlighten mutually to entwine, the civilization accompany with barbarism.