学术资讯｜政治哲学工作坊第八十一讲：什么是共和主义

Political Philosophy Workshop (81st)

Organizer

Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai)

Sun Yat-sen University

Topic

WHAT IS REPUBLICANISM?

Speaker

Mortimer SELLERS, Regents Professor,

University System of Maryland

Moderator

Jun-Hyeok KWAK, Professor

Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai),

Sun Yat-sen University

Time

10:00-12:00

November 6th, 2026

VOOV

782-917-001

ABSTRACT

Republicanism is the doctrine that laws, institutions, officials, and the State should serve the common good of the people. Rome gave republican doctrine its name and most notable success in the Roman Republic ("res publica"), but the doctrine did not originate in Rome and is not unique to Rome. Republicans insist that the public welfare or common good is always and everywhere the best measure of justice and political legitimacy, and therefore present as an aspiration in every human culture. To identify the common good as the proper end of government in this way immediately raise the question of means. Republican thought has always fallen into two main divisions, considering: first, substantive questions of justice and morality ("republican principles") and second, procedural solutions embodied in laws and the constitution ("the republican form of government"). Neither is possible without the other. The republican standard of service to the public good is so fundamental and widely shared that  it seems ubiquitous, but the implications of this commitment, when taken seriously, are transformational wherever they appear.

政治哲学工作坊第（八十一）讲

主办

中山大学哲学系（珠海）

主题

什么是共和主义

主讲

Mortimer SELLERS

（莫蒂默·塞勒斯）

马里兰大学系统董事会特聘教授

主持

Jun-Hyeok KWAK （郭峻赫）

中山大学哲学系（珠海）教授

时间

2026年11月6日

10:00-12:00

地点

腾讯会议

782-917-001

摘要

共和主义是一种主张法律、制度、官员和国家都应服务于人民共同善的学说。罗马赋予共和主义学说以名称，并使其在罗马共和国（res publica）中取得了最显著的成就，但这一学说并非起源于罗马，也并非罗马所独有。共和主义者坚持认为，公共福祉或共同善在任何时代、任何地方都是衡量正义与政治合法性的最佳标准，并因此作为一种理想存在于每一种人类文化之中。以这种方式将共同善视为政府的正当目的，随即提出了手段问题。共和主义思想始终包含两个主要维度：其一是关于正义与道德的实质性问题，即“共和主义原则”；其二是体现于法律与宪制之中的程序性方案，即“共和政体”。二者缺一不可。服务于公共善的共和主义标准是如此根本且广为认同，以至于它似乎无处不在；然而，一旦这一承诺被认真对待，它在任何出现之处都具有变革性的意涵。

来源｜哲珠新媒体

海报｜姚元琦

编辑｜赵珈宁

初审｜陈怡平

审核｜卢　毅

审核发布｜陈建洪