Hegel’s concern for social reality was explored by Brandom in a very different way from Marx。He placed the generation of conceptual meaning in the inferential activities of discourse practice through pragmatic inferential semantics,It contains the concept’s living specification and representation of the active world,This can be regarded as picking up the nourishment of Hegel’s bet365 offers。But,In what sense,We can say that Brandon is a Hegelian,It is a question that needs to be explored。
Practice bet365 offers “detranscendentalization”
Readers of Hegel in the English-speaking world such as Terry Pinkard、Robert Pippin and Paul Redding and others all hold an unconventional view of Hegel、Non-metaphysical interpretation,Think that Hegel is based on Kant’s programmatic assumption that “reason only discerns what it produces according to its own planning”,“Post-Kantian” thinkers who continue to delineate the normative logical-semantic conditions of human reason。And Bernstein (Richard J. Bernstein) pointed out prophetically earlier,Analytical bet365 offers in terms of its internal logic,There is the possibility of reconciliation with Hegel。And we will see,Blanton is one of the most remarkable contemporary readers of this ideological trend。
Blanton’s exploration of Hegel’s philosophical resources was mediated by Kant’s bet365 offers。In his opinion,The essence of Kant’s and Hegel’s thought can only be captured in comparison,The background of comparison must be enlightenment。The most important intellectual achievement of enlightenment is the substitution of human practical needs for divine commands,That is, the choices we make depend on our own normative attitudes。This "attitude-dependence of normative statuses" is most vividly expressed in Kant's theory of autonomy: distinguishing the mental from the non-mental is a normative question rather than an ontological issue On the issue。Blanton describes this innovative nature of Kant's bet365 offers in his book "Reason in bet365 offers": "Kant's most basic idea is that thinking things are different from non-thinking things,The difference between the two is not a de facto ontological distinction,Rather, it is derived through normative deontological standards。”Judgment and intentional action are matters for knowers and actors to act in a uniquely responsible way,Instead of passively discovering non-normative facts。
bet365 offers normative turn of Kant’s makes the empirical world permeable to our concepts,Instead of the Cartesian binary model of mind being independent of the world。Blanton (and two other Pittsburgh philosophers, McDowell、Silas) inherited bet365 offers normative turning tendency,And use it to establish their anti-naturalist ideological core。But Brandon thinks,The normative force of "attitude-dependent norms" can only be intelligible in isolation from the content of its commitments,Otherwise we will fall into the trap of “No matter what we say is right,It will be the right place for us。bet365 offers will make it impossible to understand what we are talking about about right and wrong,And it will lead to the fact that normativity cannot be established at all。Therefore,The origin and nature of norms become primary issues for Kant。
Brandon thinks,It was at a time when Kant had “almost nothing to say” about the nature and origin of norms,bet365 offers appears。bet365 offers provides us with an explanation of the origin and nature of norms - "Norms are constructed by society through mutual recognition"。In Blanton’s reading of bet365 offers,The relationship between Kant’s conceptual norms and empirical facts is static,And bet365 offers gave the concept a dynamic normative operation,And the concept has normative content in social application。Also,In bet365 offers,The logical structure of thinking and the logical structure of existence are the same,The grasp of existence by thinking is accomplished through concepts,So the world is a world constructed by concepts,Thinking is a conceptual world。Therefore,bet365 offers overcame Kant’s dualistic dilemma,And make the specification dynamic、Development Network of Activities。Accordingly,Blanton places the formation and operation of norms into specific social spaces,People with the ability to practice language and society (representing reason) expose propositional judgments to intersubjective discourse practices,The inference relationship established through people’s mutual recognition establishes the qualification and validity of the norm,In this way, we can understand the origin and nature of norms。
Can be seen,Blanton practiced Hegel’s advocacy of detranscendentalization in the way of an analytic philosopher,Move the understanding of norms from a priori analysis to an empirical route,The historicity of Hegel’s bet365 offers、Social education is injected into the main vein of language bet365 offers,And (in a weaker way) re-emphasize the importance of the "practical" dimension in bet365 offers。This is a selective inheritance of the philosophical legacy of Hegel, a thinker with extraordinary depth,Also to Blanton’s own pragmatist predecessors (especially Peirce、Reactivation of the core ideas of Dewey and Rorty。
De-religionization of bet365 offers concept of spirituality
Brandon emphasized,If you want to discover the teachings of Hegel’s bet365 offers,Must understand his spiritual concept。However,During the excavation process, he deliberately filtered out the part involving the role of religion in Hegel’s discussion of spirit。
In the process of examining the history of human spiritual growth, bet365 offers placed religion at an important stage of spiritual education。In bet365 offers,In terms of the fruits of enlightenment,Rational self-awareness and the possibility of freedom from this self-awareness are limited or conditional。This is shown in the Christian incarnation and the teaching of the Trinity: God became incarnate by overcoming the mutual externality between himself and nature,Giving up the infinite desire to be God for the sake of the other, human beings,This renunciation is necessary for God’s self-revelation, though,But ultimately it is the free act of love;Pass this action,God himself determines himself,Set finitude within oneself,Thereby reconciling infinity and finitude through the recognition of the other,And see your own rationality。So it can be said,The concept of the Incarnation contains a hint of what bet365 offers wanted to accomplish。
If there is no history of enlightenment in the religious stage through the recognition of God,Analyze the spirit and the reason within it as ready-made,Place it directly in human social space,And want to determine norms through mutual recognition activities among rationalities,This lacks the real "reconciliation process" (infinite and finite) that Hegel called、Man and nature、The education of reconciliation between self and others,This reconciliation is the self-knowledge of the human spirit inspired by religion。So,Hegel emphasized in "Lectures on the bet365 offers of Religion": "Religious consciousness contains the root of all things,Pass it,Humanity has obtained the truth,It is the root of all responsibility;All rights and obligations depend on this most fundamental form。”In his opinion,This religious teaching is important for understanding the spirit、rational、It is necessary for freedom,How people understand themselves depends on how they express God。Therefore,He advocates that "God is spirit","God,Because it is spirit,You must regulate yourself,Set finitude within oneself,(Otherwise God will be just a zombie、Empty abstraction)”。Anyway,For Hegel,Religion is a necessary perspective to understand spirituality。
Although philosophical thoughts of different eras express key points、Tendency always has its own characteristics,But what if one turns a blind eye to what bet365 offers considered necessary to understand a concept,Then he is undoubtedly taking a "non-Hegelian" path。Blanton understands rationality in the social space of post-Enlightenment secularization,And try to construct rational norms through rational people in a relationship of mutual recognition。So,When he repurposes the concept of recognition,Removes the necessary upbringing that bet365 offers regards religion as the history of knowledge when discussing the theory of recognition,This is essentially a "de-Hegelian" operation。
Filter out the extraordinary depth of bet365 offers concept of practice
Brandom applies Hegel’s theory of recognition to discourse practice,That is, using “discourse practice” to simplify Hegel’s “practice”,This thins out the extraordinary depth of the concept of "practice" in Hegel's bet365 offers (the non-political dimension、Non-moral dimension),The dialectical nature that constitutes a fundamental thrust of Hegel's bet365 offers - concepts as the result of philosophical reflection on the historical process,And only through concepts can we understand the world in the era - the violation。In Hegel,The world cannot be understood from a purely empirical perspective,Understanding the world in the era through concepts is a basic theme of Hegel’s bet365 offers,And dialectics also led him to view concepts as the result of philosophical reflection on the historical process in the era,No matter how abstract a concept is, it always has a historical dimension。Blanton’s assertion that “the world is a conceptual world” is a continuation of the spirit of Hegel’s bet365 offers,But he only determined the connotation and comprehensibility of the concept in "discourse practice" (inferential relationship),Such a simplified replacement allows Hegel's concept of "practice" to include politics in the historical process、Morality and other multi-dimensional dimensions are reduced to “discourse practice”,Also put Hegel’s dialectical thinking aside。
Brandom focuses on his discourse practice, that is, the inferential relationship between propositions,Not concerned about real politics、Social Practice,This makes the “practice” he refers to only pragmatic practice,There is no extraordinary depth that bet365 offers gave to the concept of practice。
Based on the above discussion,A brief summary based on the following four points,We can say that Brandon is an outstanding contemporary reader of Hegel’s bet365 offers,But it is difficult to say that he is a Hegelian。First,Blanton attempts to "de-absolutize" Hegel's bet365 offers,Limits Hegel’s “spirit” to the objective spiritual stage,And try to explain the social origin of norms,This fundamentally goes against the purpose of Hegel’s bet365 offers。Second,Hegel is a practitioner of the famous assertion that "bet365 offers is the history of bet365 offers",Scholars who come from the analytical bet365 offers tradition generally do not pay attention to the history of bet365 offers due to ideological inertia。Although Brandon attaches great importance to Kant、Hegel、Wittgenstein、Reading and research by Silas et al.,But its problem domain does not reflect his continuation of traditional problems in the history of bet365 offers。Third,British and American circles have always been averse to systematic bet365 offers。Although Brandon retains an interest in systematic bet365 offers,But that is only a "system" in terms of working methods。Therefore,Hegel’s huge system will not be the true object of loyalty for Brandom, who comes from the Anglo-American analytical tradition。Fourth,The method of focusing on argumentation also resists Brandon, a descendant of analytical bet365 offers, who faithfully follows Hegel,Hegel’s dialectical logic and Brandon’s inferential logic are very different in terms of methods。
(bet365 offers article is a phased result of the National Social Science Foundation project “Research on the Pragmatism of Hegelianism from the St. Louis School to the Pittsburgh School (17BZX080)”
(Author’s unit: School of Marxism, Guangxi University)
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