论内在的政治自由主义

On Internal Political Liberalism

乔纳森·邝把政治自由主义解释为一种面向合理公民进行证成、旨在展示自由主义内在融贯性的谋划。这种内在的解释既没有区分合理公民的不同内涵,又忽视了罗尔斯对合理多元论和各种政治观念的论证,是一种不完整的解释。不仅如此,它也错误地把罗尔斯的证成对象看做是被特定规范观念所定义的理想公民,忽视了政治自由主义最终是诉诸实际存在的合理公民及其拥有的独特整全学说而被证成的。事实上,政治自由主义是面向现实社会中各种合理整全学说进行公共证成的开放的谋划,而不是独属于任何政治流派的内在谋划。

In his Liberalism ＂without Perfection, Jonathan Quong describes Rawls＇ political liberalism as an internal project that justifies itself to reasonable citizens and aims to show the coherence of liber- alism. This internal interpretation does not take the different implications of reasonable citizens seri- ously, and cannot explain Rawls＇ arguments for reasonable pluralism and a series of political concep- tions, hence is incomplete. Furthermore, it also regards the constituency of Rawls＇ arguments as the i- dealized reasonable citizens which is identified by some certain normative conceptions mistakenly, thus failing to realize the fact that political liberalism is eventually justified by way of appealing to actual reasonable citizens and their distinct comprehensive doctrines. Actually, political liberalism is an open project which faces up to the diverse reasonable comprehensive doctrines existing in current societies, rather than an internal project which belongs to any distinct political schools.