华东师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版) ›› 2005, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (4): 16-23,30, 121.

• 西方哲学研究 • 上一篇    下一篇

大问题和小细节之间的“反思平衡”——从“行动”和“行为”的概念区分谈起

童世骏   

  • 收稿日期:2005-01-04 出版日期:2005-07-01 发布日期:2005-04-25
  • 作者简介:童世骏(1958-),男,上海市人,华东师范大学哲学系教授、中国现代思想文化研究所副所长,上海社会科学院研究员

A Reflective Equilibrium between Big Questions and Small Particulars——Conceptual Distinctions between Action and Behavior

Shi-jun TONG   

  • Received:2005-01-04 Online:2005-07-01 Published:2005-04-25

摘要:

一些哲学译本和论著中出现的“行动”和“行为”之间的概念混淆, 是学术研究和日常生活中经常看到的许多概念混淆之一。澄清这些概念混淆, 提出新的概念区分, 守护对概念区分的敏感性, 是哲学研究的重要任务。这不仅意味着要对西方哲学文本做更确切的翻译, 而且意味着要对“二分法”作积极克服而不是简单摒弃, 要把概念分析和丰富想象结合起来; 这不仅意味着要用新的概念区分来代替或补充旧的概念区分, 而且意味着要设法寻找分析开来的几个方面之间的“中项”, 并通过进一步概念分析而展开新的研究, 力求达到大问题与小细节之间的“反思平衡”。

关键词: 行动, 行为, 概念区分, 二分法, 反思平衡

Abstract:

The conceptual confusion between"xing dong" (action) and "xing wei" (behavior) in quite a few philosophical translations and writings in Chinese is one of many conceptual confusions as frequently seen in our academic researches as well as in our everyday life.It is a major task of philosophy to clarify these conceptual confusions, to develop new conceptual distinctions, and to cultivate our sensitivity to conceptual distinctions.This not only means that we should keep translations more fidelity to their Western originals, but also means that we should positively overcome rather than simply deny varied"dichotomies", we should combine conceptual analyses with rich imaginations, and we should replace old-fashioned conceptual distinctions with new-types.Moreover, we should try our best to find out some"middle terms"that can mediate between those aspects that have been separated from each other, and to advance our research through newer and better work of conceptual analyses.All this means that we should, in our philosophical research, aim to have a "reflective equilibrium"between important problems and seemingly trivial distinctions.

Key words: action, behavior, conceptual distinction, dichotomy, reflective equilibrium

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