从“正当”到“权益”

From “the Right” to “Rights”

从元价值学的语义分析视角看,"正当"(the right)与"权益"(a right或rights)都起源于"对"(right),并且围绕着"可接受性"的核心语义形成了哲理内涵方面的绵延演变:正当主要在诸善冲突中具有防止任何不可接受之恶的基本功能,权益主要在人际冲突中具有防止来自他人的不可接受伤害的基本功能。理解这两个概念的逻辑关联,对于我们在政治哲学领域里考察包括"人权"(human rights)在内的一系列问题具有重要的理论意义。

Viewed from the semantic-analytic perspective of meta-axiology,both ＂the right＂and＂rights＂come from the adjective＂right＂and are philosophically related with each other around their core meaning of ＂acceptability＂：＂the right＂has the function of preventing aperson from the unacceptable evil caused in the conflict of various goods while＂rights＂has the function of preventing a person from the unacceptable harm done by other people in the interpersonal conflict.Understanding this logical relationship between the two concepts is very important for us to explore a series of theoretical problems,including those of＂human rights＂in the field of political philosophy.