文化与国际社会的扩展——英国学派文化中心主义的反思

Culture and the Expansion of International Society:Introspection on the Cultural Centralism of English School

在英国学派经典作家看来,历史上的国际社会之所以能够形成,取决于是否拥有一个共同文化的基础,当今的国际社会源自15世纪欧洲基督教国际社会在世界范围的扩展。随着国际社会的扩展,其形成的文化基础也经历由共同文化向主导文化的变迁,这种认知体现了西方文化中心主义的傲慢与自负。但是,当代国际社会的文化基础不只是国际社会中占主导地位的西方大国的文化,它的形成更多的是不同文化模式基于文化相对主义的立场,在解决全球所面临的共同问题互动中所形成的共识,更接近于一种"稀薄"的文化形态。

With the expansion of international society,the cultural base of international society also changed from that of the common culture to one of the dominant culture.This type of cognition reflected Western cultural arrogance and ego-centrism.The cultural base of the contemporary international society is not simply the culture of Western powers,which are the dominant actors in the international society.It is a different model of cultural formation,based on interactions between different cultures in resolving common issues according to the rules of cultural relativism,and formed on consensus.