学术资讯｜全球正义讲座第35讲：基本的羞耻与一种超越国界的新保证

Organizer

Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai)，Sun Yat-sen University

Topic

"Elemental Shame and a transnational 'new guarantee'" 

(Virtual）

Speaker

Manu SAMNOTRA

Associate Professor, Department of Government and International Affairs, University of South Florida  

Moderator

Jun-Hyeok KWAK

Professor, Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University

Time

Nov. 17th. 2023

10:00-12:00

VOOV

843 501 648

ABSTRACT

In Origins of Totalitarianism , Hannah Arendt argued that the "subterranean history" of Antisemitism, Imperialism, and Totalitarianism constituted an attack on the "dignity" of the Western tradition. This paper proceeds by developing four interlinked claims from this Arendtian insight. One, Arendt links the moral consequences of these developments to dignity because they undermine human plurality. Hence, and two, diminishing human dignity jeopardizes the disclosive attributes of political action, which is, for Arendt, one of the distinctive contributions of the Western tradition. Three, since this attack on dignity arose due to the failures of the national state, its solution is a transnational "guarantee" to secure rights. This guarantee must be transnational because it is premised on the world-transformative consequences of the "subterranean history". Four, Arendt's solution is rooted in an "elemental shame" that opens the way to a politics that secures human dignity through transnational solidarity. Shame, therefore, is a response proper to the West’s "subterranean history".

主办

主题

基本的羞耻与一种超越国界的新保证

（线上）

主讲

Manu SAMNOTRA

南佛罗里达大学政府与国际事务系 副教授

主持

Jun-Hyeok KWAK （郭峻赫）

中山大学哲学系（珠海）教授

时间

2023年11月17日

10:00 - 12:00

腾讯会议

摘要

汉娜·阿伦特在《极权主义的起源》一书中认为，反犹主义、帝国主义和极权主义的“地下历史”（subterranean history）损害了西方传统的“尊严”。 本文阿伦特的见解出发，发展了四个相互关联的主张。其一，阿伦特将这些发展的道德后果与尊严联系起来，因为它们破坏了人类的多元性。 因此，其二，人类尊严的减少损害了政治行动的“揭示属性”（disclosive attributes），而阿伦特认为后者是西方传统的独特贡献之一。 其三，优于这种对尊严的损害源于民族国家的失败，其解决办法是一种旨在保护权利的、超越国界的“保障”。这种保障必须是超越国界的，因为它是以“地下历史”对世界变革的影响为前提的。 第四，阿伦特的解决方案植根于一种“基本的羞耻”（elemental shame），它通过超越国界的团结为确保人类尊严的政治开辟了道路。 因此，羞耻是对西方“地下历史”的恰当回应。