自觉新议

A New View on Consciousness

自觉是人实践-认识活动的取向。过去人们对自觉的认识有许多合理之处,但也存在偏差和不足,主要是预设了自觉与合理性的等同关系,意欲将一切置于自觉控制之下,贬斥自发性,以简单二分的方式将其与自觉绝对对立。反思人类自觉的历程,应当看到,自觉是有局限性的,它可能是合理的,也可能是不合理的,它与自发存在千丝万缕的联系,并因为自发的存在才有意义和价值。指出自觉囿于自身的不足,不是为了否定它,而是为了更好地认识和实现它。

Consciousness is the tropism of practice- cognition. In the past our understanding of consciousness had reasonable factors as well as its warp and deficiency mainly because it presupposed equal relationship between consciousness and rationality, aimed to put all under the control of consciousness and demoted spontaneity, which led to absolute opposition between spontaneity in the form of simple dichotomy. If we reflect the course of human＇ s consciousness, we can see that consciousness has reasonable factors and its limitations. Consciousness, with countless ties with spontaneity, becomes meaningful and valuable thanks to the existence of spontaneity. Tiffs paper, pointing out the limitations of consciousness, which is confined to itself, aims not to deny it but to understand and achieve consciousness adequately.