“天理、国法、人情”与东亚核能政策

“Heavenly Principle, State Law, Human Sentiment/Compassion” and Nuclear Policy in East Asia

能源政策是高度政治性的,我们必须将其视为对民主的重大挑战,因为自由民主社会的政治决策必须是民主的。像核电站这样复杂的社会技术系统需要一种新的方法,其基础不是对整个体系的理性控制的迷思,而是对人类有限理性的认识。日本“东京电力公司福岛核事故”不应被视为东京电力公司负责的一个特殊失败案例,而应被视为后工业化社会的一个典型案件,日本需要进行整体的革命性转型。对此,我们需要重新审视现有的无意识嵌入式思维方式,这种方式通过现代化进程被内化,并受到西方主要范式的严重影响。“天理、国法、人情”是一种东亚的政治理念,值得作为思考的切入点得到重新审视。

Energy policy is highly political and we must take it as major challenge for our democracy because political decision-making in liberal democracy must be democratic.Complex socio-technological system such as nuclear energy plants needs a new way of approach based on not the myth of rational controllability of the entire system,but recognition of bounded rationality of human.“TEPCO s Fukushima nuclear accident”should not be taken as a special case of failure TEPCO alone was responsible for but a representative case of the post-industrial society for which Japan needs revolutionary transformation as a whole.For this end,we need to reexamine our way of thinking unconsciously embedded in our mind as a de facto framework,which was internalized through modernization process,heavily influenced by the West as the prime paradigm.“Heavenly principle,State law,Human sentiment,”the East Asian political ideal is worth reexamining as entry point for such scrutiny.