后人文主义之后——21世纪西方人文精神的新走向

After Posthumanism——The New Trend of Western Humanism in the 21st Century

20世纪后期西方兴起的后现代人文主义以围剿现代人文主义树立的“人”这个概念的中心性、绝对性、超验性和建构性为己任,弘扬差异性、多元化和碎片化。然而,单纯止步于人的整体形象的拆解不仅将人的精神世界导向虚无,还面临着政治上极权主义抬头的危险。面对全球化时代人类社会所面临的问题日益增多的共同性和普遍性,一股具有建设性力量的人文精神正在突破后现代主义的囿限。它立足于对全人类命运的考量,超越文化差异,主张人的共性和尊严,寻求解决人类社会矛盾与冲突的道德框架。这股力量日益成为后人文主义时代西方人文精神的新走向,也是全球化时代各传统文化的必然选择。

Post humanism rising in the late half of the 20th century in the west advocates difference,diversity and fragment,and aims to destroy the centeredness,absoluteness,transcendence and constructiveness of the concept of“man”upheld by modern humanism.However,mere destruction of“man”not only leads to nihilism but also to political totalitarianism.With the increasing commonness and universality of the problems confronting human society in the era of globalization,a great constructive force of humanism is about to break loose.This new trend of humanism after post humanism is based on the consideration of the fate of man as a whole and it is intended to establish a moral platform where the conflicts of human society can be solved by transcending cultural differences and calling for the dignity of man.Therefore,this new trend of humanism is not only the necessary choice of the west,but the inevitable choice of all cultures.