从契约到承认:民生权的法理基础

From Contract to Recognition:the Jurisprudential Foundation of the Right of People's Living

新兴权利之"新"不仅意味着新的时空维度和权利(诉求)样态,也意味着对权利法理基础的重新反思。尤其当思考民生权时,既有的经典契约范式由于其可能导致经济上的臣属性和伦理上的对立性,无力负担对民生权的证成功能。而承认范式以主体间关系为基本分析单位,追求个人性与社会性的统一、自由与伦理的和解,能够为民生权提供有力的理论支撑。这对于当代中国民生建设的观念和制度建构极富启发意义。

The so-called "new rights" distinguishes itself in not only its new spatial-temporal dimensions and new type of rights but also its reexamination of the jurisprudential foundation of rights.When we have a research on the rights of people’s livelihood,in particular,the classical paradigm of contract cannot justify the rights because it may result in economic slavery and ethical hostility.The paradigm of recognition,however,adopts inter-subjectivity as the basic unit of analysis,and pursues the unity of individuality and sociality and the harmony between freedom and ethics.For this reason,it can theoretically justify the rights of people’s livelihood.We hope our study can be helpful for the conceptual and institutional construction of the people’s livelihood in China.