纳斯鲍姆的诗性正义论

On Nussbaum’s Theory of Poetic Justice

本文首先阐述了纳斯鲍姆对经济学功利主义的批判,指出经济学功利主义借助于工具理性的计算原则,把人看成是'满足的容器',无视人的质性区别及尊严。在此基础上提出了纳斯鲍姆的'诗性正义'论内涵,即它的理论目标是实现对每一个人类个体的尊重;它的理论构架是通过文学想象和情感为中介来重建社会正义的内涵和标准;它的实现途径是通过'诗人裁判'或'文学裁判'来裁定社会正义事务;它的落实措施是通过艺术教育培养想象力和情感。最后阐发了'诗性正义'论本身的意义以及它在纳斯鲍姆整体正义理论中的地位。

This article first describes Nussbaum’s critique of economic-utilitarianism,pointing out that economic-utilitarianism uses the principle of calculation of instrumental rationality to treat persons as'containers of satisfaction',ignoring their qualitative difference and dignity.Then,the article elaborates the connotation of'poetic justice',whose theoretical goal is to achieve respect for every human individual,whose theoretical framework is to reconstruct the connotation and criterion of social justice through the means of literary imagination and emotion,whose approach is to rule the social justice by the poet judge or the literary judge,whose measure is to cultivate imagination and emotion through art education.Finally,the article clarifies the meaning of'poetic justice'and its position in Nassbaum’s justice theory.