文化哲学的合法性探究——从卡西尔的符号文化哲学说起

卡西尔文化哲学有着深厚的哲学史基础,是西方哲学人类学和文化自觉的理论产物。文化哲学作为内在于现代西方主流哲学精神当中的一种基本理智运思方式,体现了人作为具体历史存在的价值和意义,实现了哲学向人的生活世界的回归,是哲学摆脱西方近代理性形而上学的困境、实现自我拯救与超越的有效途径。

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Cassirer’s philosophy of culture is based on profound knowledge of history of philosophy and is the theoretical product of western philosophical anthropology and cultural consciousness.Philosophy of culture,as a basic rational way of thinking innate in western modern mainstream philosophy reflects the value and significance of man as a concrete historical being and realizes the return of philosophy to the life world of man and is an effective way for philosophy to overcome the metaphysical difficulty in modern western reason and way of rescuing and transcending itself.     

社会主义与后现代的乌托邦——论阿格妮丝·赫勒的后马克思主义

赫勒的后马克思主义是一种独特的理论,它一方面包含了后现代的理念,另一方面却又执著于乌托邦的建构,具体表现为对社会主义的新反思,希望在后现代的框架下建构起新的社会主义理念,我们将之称为＂后现代的乌托邦＂。后现代的乌托邦的理论基础是基本范式的转换,即由历史哲学转向历史理论,遵从市民社会的多元逻辑,并对其作出选择。

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Heller’s theory of post-Marxism is special： it consists of post-modern ideas on the one hand,and insists on constructing a new kind of utopia on the other hand,namely,to reflect upon socialism and attempt to develop a new kind of idea of socialism in post-modern framework,which is called ＂post-modern utopia＂.The theoretical basis of ＂post-modern utopia＂ is the transformation of basic paradigm,namely,from philosophy of history to theories of history,which follows pluralistic logics of civil society and makes a choice of it.     

卡西尔与文化哲学的进路

卡西尔是新康德主义的殿军,他的思想仍未偏离康德哲学的重心——人的问题,他通过创造性地思考和解答康德提出的问题,把＂回到康德去＂这一目标推进到了一个新层次。卡西尔把康德的先验图式转化为对符号的劳作,赋予先验图式以存在论的意义,从而把人类的自我认识看做理解和阐释人类＂创造物＂的构造原理,揭示人类的精神形式的过程。洞察神话、宗教、艺术、科学的思维和表达形式,探究其中隐藏着的人类精神得以统摄的法则是文化哲学的任务。

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Cassirer is the last important philosopher of neo-Kantianism confronted with the problem of human,which is the core of Kant’s thoughts.His creative thinking of and answer to the question posed by Kant promotes the aim of ＂going back to Kant＂ to a higher level.Cassirer transforms Kant’s transcendental schema into the work of symbols and endows it with ontological sense,thus the self-knowing of man could be seen as the process of discovering the spiritual forms through understanding and explicating principles in the creatures of human being.The aim of philosophy of culture is to have insight into the modes,formulas and rules hidden in myth,religion,art and science.     

A New Version of Modernity and Chinese Sociology

The old version of modernity centerson the conquest of nature and control ofnatural resources, leading to discord betweensociety and nature and conflict between so-ciety and individuals. This type of moder-nity forces both society and nature to paytwice the price for its realization. If we saythe new version of modernity comes from apositive and active examination of the old one,the post-modernism which calls for post-modernity is usually a negative and passivereaction to the old version of mo…     

On the Relationship between Globalization and Modernity

Discussions on globalization have been lively since the middle of 1990s. They have replaced, to a certain degree, past contentions on modernity and post-modernity to emerge as a hot topic in the mainstream world of learning. What then is the relationship between globalization and modernity? There are now three different viewpoints on this question in academic circles:     

SPECIAL ISSUE： CULTURAL PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES IN CHINA：Introduction

Theoretical consciousness of the philosophy of culture is mainly an outcome of the conscious advance of human culture towards self-conscious real history, rather than of the inherent logical evolution of philosophical rationality. From the last half of the nineteenth century, and particularly from the twentieth century on, two basic facts of Western social history brought culture from the depths of history to the surface. One was the impact of cultural models on individual and social evolution in the course of the advance of rationalization;     

Rationality and Modernity

Defined by its philosophic implications,the term modernity refers to a complete setof ideological concepts and behavioralmodes. While promoting success in mod-ernization they show themselves as its resultin the modernization process, giving rise tothe distinctive personality of modern man anda modern society’s specific attributes in thefields of economy, politics and culture.Among them rationality is a fundamental fac-tor of modernity. A source of cognition andvalues, it is the highest expres…     

On the Character of Universality:A Comparative Study on the Mor-phology of the Traditional Phi-losophies of China and the West

Since the era of Plato and Aristotle,Western philosophy has defined the pursuitof universal knowledge as its final goal, lead-ing to the rise of the absolute concept ofuniversality and the world of absolute prin-ciples composed of universal concepts. Tra-ditional philosophy in the West is a learningin search of universal knowledge while thehighest aim for traditional Chinese philoso-phy is to acquire the realm of Tao. This isthe demarcation line dividing the morphol-ogy of the traditional ph…     

自然化的现象学

作为一种先验哲学,现象学正在经历一场自然化的转变。现象学的一些观点对于认知科学、心理学等学科有着很好的借鉴意义;而现象学也必须从经验科学那里获取必要的知识补充。因此,固守先验哲学和经验科学之间的严格界限已经不合时宜了。但是,现象学自然化的同时仍要保留其独特的学科方法和特征。

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As a kind of transcendental philosophy,phenomenology is being naturalized.On the one hand,phenomenology can provide some useful insights for cognitive science,psychology etc.;on the other hand,phenomenology needs to learn necessary knowledge from empirical sciences to supplement itself.Therefore,to insist on the rigorous demarcation between transcendental philosophy and empirical sciences is mistimed.When naturalized through communication with empirical sciences,however,phenomenology should also keep its special disciplinary methodology and characteristics.     

导言(英文)

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) ruled China for 22 years and influenced the development of Chinese history in the 20th century. It is only natural for historians to attach much importance and attention to the study of its history. Study of this field has a long history, but it is only recently that it has unfolded on the Chinese mainland in ever more dimensions and with ever more findings, as a result of the declassification of domestic and overseas archives, changes in researchers’ id…     

Investigation into Current Social Capital in Rural Areas

This paper aspires to understand the true picture of current social life in the Chi-nese countryside through an investigation of social capital in rural Shandong involving a questionnaire survey and personal interviews. The authors divide the investigation into five parts: general mood of society, public participation, philosophy of life, sense of trust and safety, and network of relations and then, with the Parsons model analytical approach and the “traditional-modern” dual analytical frame…     

Hu Jintao Expositions and Innovation Theories about Prosperity and Development of Philosophy and Social Sciences

The Communist Party of China has always been paid ample attention to the development of philosophy and social sciences, and been supported to the work of philosophy and social sciences. Hu Jintao, the Chinese president and CPCCC general secretary, made a series of speech about prosperity and development of philosophy and social sciences many times. These expositions and innovation theories not only embody the concept of scientific development in the field of philosophy and social sciences, but also are valuable experience over many years. Therefore, these expositions are very important for the philosophy and social sciences.     

Introduction

A peculiarity of philosophy in China today is the complex division of disciplines and research fields. Philosophy as a discipline is divided into eight "second-order" disciplines: Marxist philosophy, Chinese philosophy, foreign philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of science, logic, and religious studies. As a research field, it comprises three major sub-fields: Marxism, Chinese traditional thought and Western philosophy. Those divisions show a variety of philosophi     

The Philosophical Dimension of Marx’s Economic Critique

In Marx’s critique of capitalism, the economic critique is closely related to the philosophical critique. Marx’s philosophical critique established the     

On the Theoretical Positioning of the Philosophy of Culture

The philosophy of culture became aprominent school of thought in Chinese philo-sophical circles in the 1980s and 1990s.However, one of the major problems con-fronted by studies of the philosophy of cul-ture is its indistinct theoretical boundaries,largely due to the uncertainty of the categoryof culture.     

The Construction of a Harmonious Society and the Trend of Post-modernist Thought

The trend of post-modernist thought represents in-depth reflections on the contradictions brought about by the Western industrial civilization and modernization. Although the keynote of its criticism of the consequences of modernity is rather pessimistic and sometimes tends to go to extremes, many ideas it expounds during its criticism can stimulate our thinking. In our     

Abstracts of Selected Papers

As a whole, the innovation system building of philosophy and social sciences is still at a groping stage, and still exist several issues in the practice. This paper analyzes the basic frame of innovation sys- tem of philosophy and social sciences, and puts forward the policy proposal for path planning of it in the new times. The author thinks that we should build macro coordination mechanism of the innovation sys- tem, integrate functional orientation of innovative subject and perfect institutional environment of the in- novation system, and so on.     

SPECIAL ISSUE： THE ENLIGHTENMENT IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Establishing a dialogue with the Enlightenment spirit has been a constant challenge confronting the intellectual community. A review of human history reveals that whenever social progress comes to a turning point, the topic of Enlightenment will inevitably be raised, giving rise to a new round of heated discussions triggered by doubts, reflections and criticisms in relation to Enlightenment. Today, although Enlightenment and the modem rule of law have not yet been accepted as general social practices, the＇modernization that embodies the Enlightenment spirit and the appeal of the rule of law has actually transcended purely academic boundaries. In a sense, it could be said, ＂modemization＂ has taken root in the minds of the majority of Chinese, epitomizing almost all their expectations and imaginations about life in the future. In the final analysis, re-opening the discussion of enlightenment represents a new attempt to unravel the complex of contradictions within the dual tensions between ancient times and modemity and between China and the West, identify the causes of intemal and external conflicts, explore the humanistic foundation of modem states ruled by law and the true values inherent in the Enlightenment, and discover the significance of these values for contemporary China in theory and practice, in an attempt to pursue a realistic path and find the intellectual and cultural resources for the establishment of a modem state ruled by law.     

The Final Extinction of Mankind

Will mankind live forever on this planet? No. Mankind will surely come to an end one day. This sounds like alarmist talk, but if we have a close look at the world around us we will see a lot of evidence that foreshadows the inevitability of the end of mankind. 1. Theoretical basis. "Everything that comes into being is doomed to die out." The natural world does not remain in a static state, but is constantly generating and destroying. This is a law of nature that cannot be changed. Human beings are the wisest of all creatures, their birth occupies a paramount position in the history of organic evolution, their wisdom is unparalleled by all other creatures, and no one would ever think of the fact that human beings are doomed to final extinction. In spite of all this, as a product of nature,     

Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature:Its Intellectual Genesis and Aesthetic Construction

Research on the history of twentieth-century Chinese literature is becoming onelong exposition of intellectual history. Thecentral idea presiding over it is the "moder-nity of a universalistic knowledge system."Any interpretation of history implies the re-writing of accepted views, and research on