韦伯伦理思想中的责任理性问题探讨

Exploration into Liability Reason in Weber's Ethical Thinking

“责任理性”是暗藏于韦伯命题中的一个核心观念。它是人独立自主地认识自己行为后果并为自己行为承担责任的一种道德实践能力,是一种能化责任为信念,以激情、欲望为动力,以理性思考的判断力作保证的道德实践理性,一种责任伦理与信念伦理相互结合、工具理性与价值理性相互支撑、理性与情感相互亲和的现代理性。

＂Liability reason＂ is a core concept hidden in Weber＇ s proposition. It is the behavioural outcome of man＇s independent cognizance of self, and a moral practice ability to bear the responsibility of his own doing; it is a reason of moral practice that can turn duty into faith with passion and desire as its motive force and with the guarantee of the judgement out of reasonable consideration; and it is a modern ethics in which the ethics of liability and that of faith combine with each other, the reason of instrument and that of value support mutually, and reason and affection demonstrate affinity for each other.