市场与规范性价值关系的再思考——霍耐特《自由的权利》解读

Honneth on Social Freedom and Market Mechnism——An Interpretation of Hornet’s the Right to Liberty

本文将运用霍耐特《自由的权利》中提出的社会自由概念来探讨市场与规范性价值的关系问题。《自由的权利》通过规范性重构的方法探寻现实社会体制中的规范性潜能,并发现市场机制自身中就蕴含实现社会自由的规范性潜能,即通过市场实现团结合作的社会自由。换言之,社会自由并不是外在于市场的价值规范,而是内蕴于市场领域本身的价值。

This article attempts to discuss the relationship between market and normative value via the concept of social freedom proposed by Axel Honneth in his new book Das Recht Der Freiheit. Through the method of normative reconstruction, this book explores the normative potential in the real social system, and finds out that the market mechanism itself contains the normative potential to achieve social freedom, that is, the social freedom would achieve unity and cooperation through the market. In other words, social freedom is the value inherent in the market instead of an external norm.