Stabilism and Its Critique  

作　　者：Xi Lin 

机构地区：[1]IAS,Fudan University,Shanghai,China

出　　处：《Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences》2024年第4期655-678,共24页复旦人文社会科学论丛(英文版)

摘　　要：Drawing on Kant and Leibniz,this article coins the term stabilism,to refer to a particular philosophical tradition that emphasises order,stability and robustness within a political community.With the layer of transcendence and mysticism inherent in the arguments by Kant and Leibniz being stripped off,this notion offers a secularity-grounded conception of how human society may strive to establish harmony between and among individual beings.This article discusses how,in domestic politics,Confucius used social roles and status to argue for a harmonious,stable,and well-ordered society.Plato centred the core of his stabilist arguments on hierarchy,while in medieval European thought,the notion of pax et concordia also valorised this stabilism through their subscription to the notion of peace and concord.In international society of states,Rawls’notion of achieving order and stability through his extended version of justice,as well as Bell and Wang’s prescription of two-dimensional reciprocity,has also offered us an illustration of how stabilism may manifest itself in international politics.In its final section,the article offers some possible critique on this notion of stabilism,where the implicit exclusion of contingency,luck or chance from the moral realm is discussed.

关 键 词：Stabilism HARMONY Social order STABILITY RECIPROCITY HIERARCHY CONTINGENCY Moral luck 

分 类 号：O15[理学—数学]