大学人性本质的历史叙事——基于西方大学思想史的分析

On the Historical Narrative of the University Human Nature——Analysis Based on the History of Thought at the Western Universities

大学应是人的本质无条件提出和自由探讨的地方,它的培养人才、科学研究、服务社会等各项活动的开展和实现都要以其为根本价值指向,这是大学在兴起之初就确立的自身合法性和合理性的不可还原的第一原则。随着社会的发展和民族国家的需要,大学原初的职业性、加之后来出现的市场的功利性、政治的意识形态性等一起成为支配现代大学的强势因素,工具理性的实用逻辑彰显了知识力的绝对优势,遮蔽了大学的人性本质。大学在构建技术王国的同时,把人之生存置于危险境地。现代大学的无边界性及其文化自觉不惟使大学的人性本质重新得以澄明,而且它自觉地把审美的人作为其澄明的最高境界和追求。

University should be a place where it can probe the nature of human beings and probe the freedom of university , whose personnel training , scientific researches , society services and other kinds of activities are based on its fundamental values .This is its first and foremost principle when the university was originally founded .With the development of the society and with the increasing demands of our nation , the universities were originally for meeting the demands of job occupations , and then were for meeting the demands of the markets and then became the tools which served the politics .Instrument rationality and its pragmatic logic had become the overwhelming ad-vantage of spreading knowledge , which gives rise to the loss of human nature and leads to essence deficiency of the university .When the great realm of technology was being built in the university , it ’ s possible to put those living poetry of human beings in danger .No boundaries and its cultural self -consciousness of modern university makes the university＆#39;s human nature to be clear again. And the modern university let aesthetic person as its highest level of clarity.