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现代国家的构建:消极自由主义国家理论研究

Construction of Modern State: Research on State Theory of Negative Liberalism

【作者】 樊凡

【导师】 周光辉;

【作者基本信息】 吉林大学 , 政治学理论, 2010, 博士

【摘要】 可以说,任何有关现代国家构建的理论实质上都是在回答在现代社会中国家该如何作为这一问题。随着市场经济的发展和市民社会的成长,构建现代国家已经成为了当下中国的发展方向。在当下中国的语境下,揭示消极自由主义的国家理论以及其所面临的问题具有重要的理论与实践意义,它有助于我们理解市场经济与市民社会赖以运作的外部条件,从而理解中国构建现代国家所可能面临的任务和问题。基于以上的认识,本文以消极自由主义国家理论为视角来探析现代国家的构建。就消极自由主义国家理论的历史发展而言,可以说,一种清晰的、系统性的消极自由主义国家理论,到了哈耶克和诺齐克那里,才最终浮现了出来,他们分别以自生自发之秩序理论和个人权利理论为核心,展开了对现代国家的描述。尽管二人的理论有所区别,但他们的基本倾向却是一致的,在他们看来,惟有最小国家才符合消极自由主义对现代国家的积极想象。然而,因为消极自由主义国家理论认为,任何政治的活动都必将会演变为削弱该国家正当性的力量,所以,它们才会反对那种试图通过政治活动的方式来为国家行为进行正当性证明的观念和实践,这也就导致了消极自由主义国家理论将人的差异性和多样性所可能引发的各种社会冲突统统压制在了非政治的领域中。但是,在现代社会中,由于人们相互之间存在的差异性和多样性事实所可能引发的各种社会冲突最终都会走进政治的核心,而这种相互冲突的事实势必会使得“多元”和“竞争”现象成为政治领域中不可避免的普遍性存在,因此,关于在现代社会国家该如何作为的问题,都最终有可能被纳入到一种以“多元”和“竞争”为本质性特征的政治活动中来探讨和决定。

【Abstract】 With the development of market-oriented economy and civil society, construction of modern state will inevitably be the direction of development of contemporary China. Compared with traditional states, although modern state is a continuous operating mandatory organization, which successfully has monopolized the coercive power, the goal of the construction of modern state cannot be the construction of totalitarian state. On the contrary, it is mainly developed on the basis of the discussion of the scope of act of state. With all these things considered, and under the current circumstances of China, it will be of great significance on both theoretical and practical aspects to unveil the state theory of negative liberalism and all the problems it faces; it will be beneficial for us to understand the external conditions which market-oriented economy and civil society operate on, and help us to have a better understanding of the tasks China faces in the construction of modern state. In this article, the author will target at the state theory of negative liberalism. First, based on presence of the state theory of negative liberalism itself and its theoretical premise, reflection on the attitude the state theory of negative liberalism has for politics will be unfolded with the perspective of all kinds of social conflicts which may be caused by the diversity people have. Subsequently, problems that the state theory of negative liberalism faces will be revealed and the theoretical and practical significance for the construction of modern state may well be unveiled.As for the historical development the state theory of negative liberalism, a precise and systematic state theory of negative liberalism finally surfaced when it comes to Hayek and Nozick. They separately take their focus on the theory of spontaneous order and individual rights theory to describe the modern state. Despite the differences on their theories, they share the same basic tendency. In their eyes, only the smallest state is consistent with the positive imagination negative liberalism has for modern state. According to the negative liberalism state theory, individuals have to be the start as well as the end. They won’t give more than what is needed for freedom or right of human life; they imply that anything that invades and threats individual liberty, individual property and free competition is an action that is of lack of proper evidence and evilly mandatory. According to the negative libertarian, although they acknowledge the necessity of state, they consider the state actions will have legitimacy only when they embody the requirement of publicity; they constrain the force of state under the requirements that are found or produced not by political process: first of all, from positive aspect, they define the force of state as protecting free state or individual right, and restrict it within the realm of not invading the individual freedom and individual rights; secondly, from the negative aspect, from their point of view, whatever reasons for magnifying the smallest functions of a state will not take on the‘publicity’, because that will infringe individual liberty or rights. As a result, whatever activities that try to provide evidence for magnifying state function is dangerous.According to negative liberalism sate theory, political science can’t be named after rationalism and universalism, so political science can’t be defined by any scientific theory or reasoning method. From their point of view, political activities are a special social phenomenon, in which the political activities are full of competitions and conflicts of individual will or interest. As a result, whether it is democratic activity or non-democratic activity, the result always suggests that some individual or group tries to reflect their own special will, and this often predicts constructing some arbitrary, pragmatic mandatory power relations. And these arbitrary, pragmatic power relations are bound to evolve into threats to diversity. As a result, negative liberalism state theory holds a suspicious attitude toward politics, and they extremely distrust political activities which result to their nonsupport to political activities. All in all, in negative liberalism state theory, any political activities will evolve the power that reduces the legitimacy. They are strongly against the idea and the practice of demonstrating the legitimacy by political approach. As a result, they suppress the social conflicts caused by differences and diversities of people within the private realm.In modern political philosophy, we are sure that other than the Anarchists all the ideologists who criticize the state theory of negative liberalism are trying to demonstrate how a state acts with justice, focusing on the political action. There are various competed thoughts on the debate about how a state posses justice through its action .At an extreme abstract level, those competed thoughts show us the arguments over various theories of modern states. The arguments show differences in following sides: 1) according to the political theory which is guided by the public interests and common good, political action aims to construct a truth in the universality value in a manner of rationalism or near-rationalism. These truths are effective for all independent groups in different historical backgrounds and cultural tradition. If we can discover or produce reasoning the knowleges of justice with the meaning of non-excludability, certainty and substantiality, people can judge state action’s justice by those knowledges. 2) According to the political theory which is characterized by "diversification" and "competition", instead of possessing the knowleges of state action’s justice with the meaning of non-excludability, certainty and substantiality, people would show an conflict based on different ideas, So, the question about how a state act should be discussed and determined in the realm of democratic politics. Besides, only continuous democratic discussion and determination can ensure an enough justice quality to state action.Actually, in present political philosophy: on the one hand, all descriptions towards the justice of state action can be summarized sensationally to a description towards modern states, for the analysis to the justice of state action essentially equals to the understanding towards modern politics. On the other hand, just because of the different ideas towards modern politics, people describe modern state in different ways. However, various society facts possibly caused by the fact of otherness and diversity among people will finally enter into the core of politics. Consequently, those conflict facts must lead to“diversity”and“rivalry”in the political field, and become an ineluctable universality. For this reason, as regard to the question of how to construct a modern state should be brought into the political action with diversity and rivalry as its essential quality, to be studied and determined.

  • 【网络出版投稿人】 吉林大学
  • 【网络出版年期】2010年 08期
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