崇高的位置──徘徊于世纪之交的哲学理性

A Lofty Position:Philisophical Reason Hesitating at the Turning of the Centuries

在人类历史的精神坐标上，崇高与渺小一向是对立的两极。崇高表征着真善美，渺少则意味着假恶丑。哲学作为理论形态的人类自我意识，它一向是以阐扬崇高和贬抑渺小作为自已的追求目标和理论使命。然而，２０世纪的哲学理性却在反省崇高及其种种对象化存在的百年来的精神历程中，既消解着种种被异化了的崇高，又承受着失落了崇高的种种精神困倦。世纪之交的哲学理性正徘徊于对崇高的沉思之中。

Greatness and paltriness are two polarized concepts with the former expressing the ideas of truth, goodness and beauty, while with the faLter expressing the meanings of false, evil and hideousness. Philosophy as the self -consciousness of human being in a theoretic form, is always holding it as its pursuing goal and theoretic undertaking to promote greatness and demote paltriness. But at present, philisophy is hesitating in the speculation of the greatness. in the turning of the centruries