启蒙理性批判的伦理意蕴

Ethic Implications of Critical Inquiries into Enlightenment Rationality

启蒙理性的宗旨是摆脱恐惧、获得自由;然而,人们不仅没有实现真正的解放,反而又陷入新的奴役之中。而导致这一悖论出现的根本原因就在于古希腊以来的理性传统在启蒙时代发生了自我变异,启蒙理性蜕变为以数学化与实用化为主要特征的工具理性,并一跃成为理性崇拜的全部内容。工具理性的自我膨胀必然暗示出价值理性的失落,从而导致严重的伦理后果,即终极实体的缺位、伦理价值的虚无及伦理精神的媚俗。对启蒙理性的不断追问和质疑,凸现现代社会对工具理性权威崇拜的批判和拒斥,从而为彰显和确立人类生存发展的价值基础和意义世界而不懈努力。

The tenet of Enlightenment rationality is to cast off fear and gain freedom. However, people do not achieve liberation in its true sense, but get into a new thrall instead. This paradox results from self-variation of a rational tradition ever since Greek antiquity during the Enlightenment. Enlightenment rationality has denigrated into instrumental rationality marked by mathematization and pragmatization, and has risen to the status of rationality cult in its own right. Self-expansion of instrumental rationality necessarily indicates the loss of value rationality, thus inducing serious ethic consequences, that is, the loss of ultimate entity, the nihility of ethic value and vulgarization of ethic spirit. Constant questioning rejection base and of Enlightenment rationality cult by modern of Enlightenment rationality works to highlight critiques and society, thus marking untiring effort to establish the value semantic world for human subsistence and development.