查尔斯·泰勒的诠释性社会科学哲学

查尔斯·泰勒认为,人类是一种自我诠释的动物,他们能够理解并且反思人类生活以及他们与其他人的关系的意义.社会实践应该按照行动者的社会意义进行阐释.他由此批评了试图按照因果解释将社会科学还原为自然科学的自然主义,它忽视了人类生活中意义与意向性等最为重要的方面.因此,他倡导一种诠释性的社会科学知识理论,这种诠释的目标在于理解,而这种诠释性理解理论通过语言哲学得到支持,语言提供一种表达理解的形式.主体的实践通过他们的语言理解所塑造.

Charles Taylor's Philosophy of Interpretive Social Science

In Charles Taylor's opinion,human beings are self-interpreting animals and they can understand and reflect the meaning of their life and the relationship between themselves.Social practice should be interpreted according to the social meaning of actors.He therefore criticized the naturalism because it attempts to reduce the social science to natural science in accordance to causal relation and ignores the meaning and intention,both are the most important aspect in human life.As a result,he advocated a kind ...