怎样界定“政治”概念?——从“正义”到“政治”

How to Define the Concept of“Politics”?-From “Justice”to“Politics”

结合生活实际,围绕有关的概念进行语义分析,我们可以发现与"权益"直接相关的"正义"构成了"政治"的核心要素,以致后者可以界定为"人们试图获得和运用能让自己认同的‘正义’理念在公共生活里得以实施的强制性‘权力’,以求维护自己‘权益’的行为领域"。凭借这个定义,我们就能将"政治"定位于人类生活的"道德"价值领域,不但把它与"经济"、"艺术"等"非道德"的现象区分开来,而且也把它与"德性"、"法律"等其他的"道德"现象区分开来,由此澄清当前学界在界定"政治"概念方面存在的某些严重曲解。

Semantic analysis on the basis of daily life shows that the“justice” connected directly with“rights” is the core factor of “politics” ; as a result, the latter concept can be defined as “the field inwhich people try to acquire and use the coercive power in practice to carry out their own ideas ofjustices in public life in order to maintain their rights. ” According to this definition, we can locate“politics” precisely in the “moral” sphere of human life, so as to distinguish it not only from such“non-moral” phenomena as “economy” or “art” but from such “moral” phenomena as “virtue” or“law ,” thereby clarifying some serious distortion in defining the concept of “politics. ”