施特劳斯政治哲学与海德格尔

Historical Debates of Leo Strauss's Political Philosophy and Martin Heideggers Philosophy of Being

施特劳斯堪称20世纪西方“影响最大和最富争议的”政治哲学史家,作为政治哲人的施特劳斯的“持久重要性”,尤在于伴随其学术生涯始终的与当代西方“第一哲人”海德格尔的思想争辩。如今,围绕施特劳斯政治哲学的思想争议,早已超越西方学术范围深刻影响了中国学术。中国并没有也不会像施特劳斯所认为的那样“屈服于西方理性主义”:施特劳斯提议“开始理解一个世界宗教的可能性”,海德格尔则主张“为最后之神掠过的伟大时机作长久准备”,而中国古圣人孔子的教诲是“人能弘道,非道弘人”。

Leo Strauss probably remains the single most influential and controversial writer of the history of political philosophy. The “ enduring importance” of Strauss as a political philosopher does lie in his debates through his academic career with Heidegger, “ the first philosopher” of the contemporary West.Today, the controversy surrounding Strauss’ s political philosophy has already gone beyond the scope of Western academics and profoundly affected Chinese academics. China has not succumbed and will never “succumb to Western rationalism” as Strauss thinks: Strauss proposes to “begin to understand the possibility of a world religion”, and Heidegger advocates to prepare “for the great moment of the passing of the last god”, but the teaching of the ancient Chinese Sage Confucius is “human beings can promote the Tao,but not the Tao can promote human beings.”