现代和后现代价值观的超越:多元中的追求

A Pursuit in the Diversity of Value,beyond the View of Modern and Post-modern Value

后现代主义者利奥塔、德里达以及对后现代主义持批评态度的哈贝马斯等人,他们所提出的价值观与传统的价值观有着很大的差别。他们一反以往已经习惯了的一元普遍主义,转而提倡多元的价值追求,在似乎并不设定某种终极价值目标的基础上,力图发现或展望一种新的价值观念,这种新的价值观无疑是当今社会重建和谐与秩序的一种重要的思想资源。

Whether recognized as post-modern society or a society of unfinished modernity,it is a matter of fact that the contemporary society has been swamped with contradictions,disputes and conflicts.How do the main bodies of different levels and different types,such as individuals,communities and nations,deal with these problems? How do they choose their values? A number of contemporary prestigious thinkers have probed into these topics.For example,the post-modernist theorists and critics of post-modernism,such as Habermas,have introduced values as new viewpoints that are totally different from the traditional theory.The differences lie in the fact that they have abandoned the regular and common universalism and advocate the pursuing of multi values.They are not relativists.Instead,they try to find out or prospect a new value based on the foundation that no certain ultimate value seems to be set in advance.