摘要
“民主”是一个很有意思且有很多意思的“大字眼”,从认知的角度看,作为社会公共事务的决策机制,民主意味着真理的不在场。民主的“多数决定原则”是涵盖民主作为“主义”话语与“问题”解决机制两个维度的基本规定性。以此为前提,对“民主即真理的不在场”可以有逻辑与经验两个层面的论证:前者由“民主”与“科学”的张力关系推出真理的非多数决定品格,后者则以实证经验分析支持上述的逻辑结论和深化主题的内涵。民主理念的深处是其所内含的平等逻辑,由此出发可以对民主的内涵及局限得出合乎逻辑的解释。
＂Democracy＂ is ＂a big word＂ with multiple meanings. From the perspective of cognition, it has been argued that democracy, as a way of decision-making in the public issues, means the absence of truth. The fundamental defining property of democracy is the ＂principle of majority decision＂ which covers both ＂Ism-discourse＂ and ＂problem-resolving mechanism＂. On the basis of the above definition, the argument that ＂democracy is the absence of truth＂ can be defended from two levels ： logic and experiential. At the logic level, it can be inferred from the tension between ＂democracy＂ and ＂ science＂ that truth is not decision by the majority; at the experiential level, the above logical conclusion can be confirmed and deepened by experiential analysis. The logic underlying the idea of Democracy is equality, from which the advantages and disadvantages of Democracy as a political institute could be adequately explained.
出处
《山东大学学报（哲学社会科学版）》
CSSCI
北大核心
2006年第3期1-10,共10页
Journal of Shandong University(Philosophy and Social Sciences)
关键词
民主
真理
多数决定机制
社会认知
democracy
truth
mechanism of majority decision-making
