阿玛蒂亚·森的积极自由观探析

Amartya Sen's Positive Freedom View

自由是人们探讨的亘古话题,沿着自由思想的发展历程可以看到不同学者从不同角度对自由进行阐释。阿玛蒂亚·森的自由思想吸收了历史上消极自由与积极自由的合理因素形成了自己独有的积极自由思想,坚持能力优先于权利,将积极自由建立在消极自由基础上。阿玛蒂亚·森认为,人之为人的出发点和最终目的是实现人的解放,人的自由全面发展,并将可行能力核心作为发展的最终目标,但其对能力的内容确定模糊不清,自由层次划分不明。

Freedom is a consistent topic. The history of freedom study shows various interpretations. Amartya Sen＇s philosophy of freedom,absorbing the positive and negative theories of freedom,develops into a unique positive theory of freedom,which believes that competence is prior to right and hence builds positive freedom on negative freedom. Amartya Sen believes that the foundation of man as human is to liberate man and achieve the full development. The ultimate goal is competence. However,the content of competence is vague with unclear classification of levels.