洛克的个体危机及其自然法起源

Locke’s Individual Crisis and Its Natural Law Origin

约翰·洛克的思想在西方世界的政治实践中取得巨大成功的同时,亦带有重大隐患。这一隐患因洛克以个体为起点的哲学理念可被称作“个体的危机”,它源出洛克思想中自然法与神圣法的普遍性之争。自然法的取胜,意味着拒斥中世纪传统的以基督论为中介的真理观,让思考的起点重回人类社会。而洛克原本同时依托两者的个体的解释原则,则必须承受因神圣历史解释模式的崩溃而带来的危机。

While John Locke’s ideas have achieved great success in the political practice of the Western world,they also have their own hidden danger.This hidden danger can be called the“individual crisis”because Locke’s philosophical idea starts from the individual.It originates from the dispute of universality between the natural law and the divine law in Locke’s thought.The victory of natural law means rejecting the medieval view of truth based on Christology,and rendering the starting point of thinking return to human beings.Locke originally relied his individual interpretation principle on both two sources above,however,he must bear the crisis brought about by the collapse of the mode of interpretation due to the divine history then.