论现代性的合法性

On Legality of Modernity

批判性是哲学的基本原则和重要功能,对现代性的哲学批判首先是对其存在的合法性的质疑。现代性是基于人们对共同社会生活的需要产生的,具有天然的合法性。后现代主义哲学认为现代性夸大了主体性和统一性的旨趣,给个体的自由和生存带来了灾难,应彻底否定。事实上,只要人类有共同社会生活,现代性的理论就有合法性的基础。当然,也应根据时代的需要,建立以主体间性为基础的新的现代性范式,从而保障当今时代下的现代性具有合法性。

Critics is the basic principle and essential function of philosophy, and the first philosophical critic on modernity should focus on query into legality of modernity. we hold that modernity came into being on the basis that people are in need of the common social life, which is naturally legal. Postmodernism philosophy believes that modernity, exaggerating the goals of subjectivity and unification and bringing disaster to individual freedom and survival, should be denied. We hold that the theory of modernity is necessary on condition that human beings have common lives; however, the theory, upon the requires of the age, should establish a new modernity schema that is intersubjectivity, so as to promise legality of contemporary modernity.