论风险社会中的价值选择

On the Value Choice in Risk Society

进入21世纪后,风险社会成为一个人们必须面对的现实。风险社会使人类变成了命运共同体,但却是消极的命运共同体。为了将这个消极的命运共同体转化为积极的命运共同体,需要确立起属于这个社会的基准社会价值。在风险社会中,只有人的共生共在才是适当其称的基准价值。也只有这一价值转化为人的价值观时,才能作用于人的一切行动,资益于人类命运共同体。对人的共生共在这一价值的社会选择既不可以通过权力也无法借助于民主,而是每一个社会成员自主的事业。认识到人的共生共在是风险社会中的基础性社会价值,虽然是来自于风险、危机事件频发以及社会的高度复杂性和高度不确定性的压力,但也是一个自觉的过程。在这个自觉的过程中,凸显出来的是人的道德自主性。

After entering the 21st century,risk society has become a reality that people have to face.Risk soci⁃ety has turned mankind into a community with a shared future for mankind,but it is a negative one.In order to transform such a negative community into a positive one,it is necessary to establish the basic social value of this society.In risk society,only the coexistence and interaction of human is the appropriate basic value,and on⁃ly when this value is transformed into human value can it be applied to all human actions and contribute to the community of shared future for mankind.The coexistence and interaction of human can be chosen socially nei⁃ther through power nor with the aid of democracy,but is the independent enterprise of every member of society.It is a conscious process to realize that the coexistence and interaction of human is the basic social value in risk society,although it comes from the pressure of risks,the frequent occurrence of crisis events,and the high com⁃plexity and high uncertainty in the society.In such a conscious process,what stands out is the moral autonomy of man.