重塑合法性之维——论哈贝马斯程序主义民主的内在理路

Reconstruction of the Basis of Legitimacy——On the Inner Logic of Habermas's Procedural Democracy

在后形而上学的时代背景之下,宗教一元价值观的崩溃留下了价值的真空,产生了价值多元乃至价值虚无主义。在政治领域,这导致了合法性危机。然而,自文艺复兴、宗教改革等一系列事件以来,西方社会经历了世俗化的过程,这个过程使得西方人完成了从上帝面前人人平等向法律面前人人平等的转换,在这个意义上,法律成为整合社会的弥合剂。在政治哲学的层面上,哈贝马斯试图通过程序主义民主来整合价值之间的冲突,进而解决合法性危机,他的理论对当下中国问题具有重要的参照意义。

The collapse of the singular value in religion has left a vacuum in the post-metaphysical context,which results in the diversity of value and even nihilism,leading to the crisis of legitimacy.However,since the Renaissance,the Reformation and a series of events,the West has experienced a secular process,which makes the Westerners complete a conversion from being equal in front of the God to being equal in front of the law.In this sense,law became an important factor to conform the society.Habermas attempts to reconsolidate the conflict between values through the procedural democracy and solve the crisis of legitimacy on the level of political philosophy.His theory serves as a significant reference to the solution of China＇s contemporary problems