罗尔斯的“重叠共识”理念及其启示

Rawls’ Idea of an Overlapping Consensus of the Political Liberalism and Its Enlightenment

"重叠共识"理念是解读罗尔斯政治自由主义理论的一个切入点。在西方社会"理性多元论"的背景下,《正义论》哲学只是诸种合理性伦理价值的一元,无法获得罗尔斯所期望的社会成员的一致认肯。《政治自由主义》正视"理性多元论"的事实,借助"重叠共识"理念在各种完备性学说与正义观念之间架起了一座桥梁,这样,在罗尔斯看来,政治自由主义才有可能完成正义论所不可能完成的任务,为现代多元社会的正义稳定铺平道路。"重叠共识"的理论运思无疑对利益日趋多元化的中国社会具有深远的启发意义。

John Rawls＇ Theory of Justice depicts the liberalism which is a kind of comprehensive moral philosophy. That the Theory of Justice of liberalism as a kind of comprehensive moral philosophy is only one part of kinds of modern rational ethic value systems in the background of the Reasonable pluralism in the western democratic society, and it is not accepted by the whole social members. Facing the fact of the Reasonable pluralism , the political liberalism builds a bridge connecting the Reasonable Pluralism and the conception of Political justice when it transforms the conception from a moral philosophy into a political philosophy. Thus the Political liberalism accomplishes a mission that lays a stable foundation of the modern democratic society.