汉娜·阿伦特“诞生性”的三个向度

The three dimensions of Hannah Arendt's natality

在汉娜·阿伦特的政治哲学中,“诞生性”是其思想体系的起点。“诞生性”包括自然生命的诞生和公共生命的诞生,体现在历史、制作与行动等三个向度中。现代性开启后,“制作”的膨胀让“诞生性”遭到遮蔽,以至于历史与自然科学成为“纯粹的过程科学”,作为行动的主体及其精神反而暗淡无光。在单一性的现代性谋划中,工具理性逐渐实现了僭越,压倒了价值理性,使得“祛魅”后的人类意义世界渐趋荒芜,虚无主义随之兴起。重构早期阿伦特的“诞生性”思想,发掘“言说”和“行动”的价值,可以为新时代人类命运共同体的建设提供必要的思想资源。

In Hannah Arendt's thoughts of political survival philosophy,"natality"is the logical starting point,which includes birth of both natural life and public life,manifested in three dimensions of history,cultivation and action.However,with the emergence of modernity,the inflation of cultivation renders the natality veiled by"instrumental thinking"so that history and natural science have become"pure process science",and the subject and its spirit of praxis have become dimmed.In the unitary modernity planning,the instrumental rationality has gradually realized the arrogation of position,and overwhelmed value rationality so that the disenchanted world in human sense has gradually turned into a wasteland where nihilism emerged along.Reconstructing Arendt's earlier thoughts about natality and disclosing the value of parole and action can provide imperative thinking resources for the construction of the community with a shared future for mankind.