危险的爱国主义:理查德·罗蒂的新宗教

A Perilous Patriotism:Richard Rorty's New Religion

理查德·罗蒂受意识形态支配的狂热行为是危险的,它会使我们变得盲目,看不清实际情形及别人的真正需求。罗蒂如此坚信西方的文化及其民主设施的优越性,以至于他无法看到其他可选择的政治体制的价值,以及他们如何能在与他所处的不同文化背景中成功运作。罗蒂放弃了经典的西方人性理论,那么他不可避免地被引导到非理性的爱国主义立场,因为最终除了教条和盲目信仰之外,他没有任何东西来支持他的对西方文化优越性的信仰。

The danger of Rorty's ideological zealotry lies in the fact that it can blind us to the actual condition and real needs of others.Rorty is so firmly convinced of the superiority of Western culture and its democratic devices that he fails to see the value of alternative political devices and how they can function successfully in cultural contexts that differ from his own.Having aban- doned the classical Western theory of human nature,it is inevitable that Rorty should be led to embrace an irrational kind of pa- triotism,for in the end he has nothing to support his belief in the superiority of Western culture but dogma and blind faith.