Political Philosophy Workshop系列第二讲：How is Politics to be Moral?

Political Philosophy Workshop II：How is Politics to be Moral?

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

Topic: How is Politics to be Moral?

Speaker: Seon-Wook Kim (Professor, Soongsil University)

Moderator: Prof. Chen Jianhong (Professor, Sun Yat-sen University)

Time: Oct. 20th, 16:00pm

Venue: Room 1302 Administrative Building of SYSU, Zhuhai Campus.

Abstract:

Connecting politics and morality is usually understood as an attempt to constrain politics with morality. Since Machiavelli, however, it has been regarded as impossible to condition and constrain autonomously existing politics with certain pre-determined, fundamentally justifiable moral norms. The whole history of ethics also shows that such norms do not exist. To ask how politics is to be moral can be a meaningful inquiry when we focus on the principles of living together by means of politics. In this context, morality means the principles of co-existence and the willingness to live up to them. Man is believed to be equipped to live morally, and the political realm is where the moral equipment is embodied. When we focus on proper ways of participating in the political realm, we can find a way in which politics can keep social agents to maintain moral attitudes. This approach implies a criticism of the liberal understanding of human agency, freedom, and equality.

Political Philosophy Workshop系列第二讲

主办：中山大学哲学系（珠海）

主题：政治如何有道德？

主讲人：Seon-Wook Kim（韩国崇实大学教授）

主持：陈建洪（中山大学教授）

时间：2016年10月20日16:00

地点：中山大学珠海校区行政楼1302室

报告摘要：把政治和道德联系在一起，往往会被理解为试图用道德约束政治。然而，从马基雅弗利开始，用预定的、根本正当的道德规范人为地制约现有的政治是不可能的。整个伦理学的历史上也说明并不存在这样的规范。当我们着眼于用政治手段使我们共同生活的原则时，提出政治如何有道德未尝不是一个有意义的探究。在此背景下，道德意味着共存的原则和不违背自我意愿。人具备道德地活着的能力，道德素养也呈现在政治领域中。当我们关注通过合适的方式参与政治时，我们可以找到一种方法使所有社会主体坚持自我的道德思维。这种方法同时也暗含了对人类能动性、独立、平等的自由理解的批判。