社会科学是否遗忘了“正当”问题——评列奥·斯特劳斯的《自然权利与历史》

德国历史主义主导的社会科学,遗忘了对"正当"问题的思考,因而对当代社会的虚无主义与道德沦丧负有不可推卸的责任,这是列奥.斯特劳斯批判社会科学的基本立场。这篇文章试图检讨这种批判的得失,并认为社会科学,就其本义而言,恰恰是通过"倒置"自然法学说的推理逻辑,为个人的自我治理与社会秩序的建设提供知性的支持。社会科学是作为科学,而不是作为意识形态的道德褒贬,来承当"应然"与"实然"之间的中间桥梁的任务。

Whether Social Science Forgets the Issue of Right

German social science dominated by historicism should be responsible for the nihilism and the loss of morality in contemporary society since it did not take the issue of Right into consideration;which is the basic standpoint of Leo Strauss.This article attempts to discuss the success and failure of his critique and maintains that,by inverting the reasoning logic of the doctrine of natural law,social science,in its original duty,is just to discover the moral limit and valid order in the complex,changeable so...