理性与宗教间的角斗与协同——评哈贝马斯与拉辛格的辩论

The Combat and the Cooperation between Rationality and Religion: A Comment on the Debate between J.Habermas and J.Ratzinger in München

本文论述哈贝马斯与拉辛格一场有关道德与政治的关系的辩论。尽管他们在实践的层面都寻求理性与宗教之间的对话和合作,但理论立场完全不同。对于哈贝马斯来讲,这一对话和合作的基础在于交往理性能够吸纳宗教的积极因素,而拉辛格认为理性与宗教需要互相制约和互相净化。

Jürgen Habermas and Joseph Ratzinger opened up a debate about the relation between morality and politics in Miinchen on Jan. 19, 2004. Although both of them sought for the dialogue and cooperation between rationality and religion on paractical dimension, their theoretical positions opposed each other. According to Habermas, the dialogue and cooperation rested with the possibility of communicative rationality assimilating positive elements of religion, whereas Ratzinger held that rationality and religion needed to be restricted and mutually purified.