对理性主义发展观的重新审视和超越

Review and Transcendence of the Rationalist View of Development

理性主义发展观的基本信条可以概括为:(1)人类历史的进步归根到底是人类理性的进步;(2)人类理性就是在牛顿的物理学探究中得以典型体现的理解和探究能力,在方法和逻辑上体现为自然科学方法,它是人类知识探究的统一方法;(3)理性的进步(或知识的进步)决定着人类历史的全面进步,知识的进步势必导致道德进步。这些基本信条貌似有理,实际上在其背后隐藏着很大的危险。对理性主义发展观进行重新审视及超越,对正处于社会转型期的中国树立科学的发展观具有借鉴意义。

The fundamental creeds of the rationalist view of development can be summarized as follow: first, man's historical progress is no more than the progress of man's rationality; second, man's rationality is the ability of comprehension and exploration embodied in the exploration of classic physics, presenting itself as natural scientific methods in way and logic and as the unified method of man's exploration of knowledge; third, the progress of rationality (or progress of knowledge)determines the whole progress of man's history, which in turn leads to the progress of morality. These basic creeds are seemingly right, but actually there are great dangers hidden in them. So a review and transcendence of the rationalist view of development are significant for China to establish the view of scientific development in its transitional phase of society.