康德论普遍意志:定言命令之功能的对等物?

Kant on the General Will:An Equivalent to the Function of the Categorical Imperative?

在康德看来,法律正当性的标准在于拟议的法律是否符合人民的“普遍意志”。本文将探讨康德所概述的测试程序是否与定言命令的程序相似。若相似的话,那么它们在多大程度上是相似的呢?本文的结论是,两种测试程序,即定言命令测试(根据普遍规律公式)和普遍意志测试虽然具有一定相似性,但它们只是在理想和非理想的规范性关系中相互关联。

For Kant,the criterion for the legitimacy of law is whether a proposed law corresponds to people’s general will.This article explores whether and to what extent the test procedure outlined by Kant resembles the Categorical Imperative(CI)procedure.This paper concludes that the two test procedures,i.e.,the CI-test(according to the universal law formula)and the general-will-test(AW-test),are indeed similar but stand to each other only in the ideal and non-ideal normativity.