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平等问题是当代西方政治哲学最重要的学术关怀之一,西方多个理论流派都提出了自己的平等主义观念。在批判传统左派和新右派的思想论争中,吉登斯确立了自己的“新平等主义”理论。在对传统左派和新右派平等观评析的过程中,吉登斯提出以结果与机会相融合、责任与权利相统一、效率与平等并进为主要内容的平等观,企图以此调和关系,实现社会平等。这种平等主义思想在一定程度上突破了“左”和“右”在意识形态上的束缚,在理论上有一定的新颖性和可资借鉴之处。尽管吉登斯的新平等主义思想曾经助推英国工党布莱尔内阁取得一定的改革成效,但由于其自身的理论局限以及政治制度的制约,其政治理想难以实现,并最终无法挽回英国工党在政治上的失败。
Equality is one of the most important academic concerns in contemporary western political philosophy. Many Western schools of thought have put forward their own egalitarian ideas. In criticizing the ideological debate between the traditional leftist and the new rightist, Giddens established his own theory of “neo-egalitarianism.” In the process of commentary on the equality view of the traditional leftists and neo-rightists, Giddens proposed the concept of equality based on the integration of the results with the opportunities, the unification of responsibilities and rights, the efficiency and equality, and the attempt to reconcile the relations and realize the social equality. To a certain extent, this egalitarian thinking broke through the ideological bondage of “Left” and “Right”, and there is a certain novelty in theory and something that can be used for reference. Although Giddens’s neo-equalism theory helped boost the British Labor Party Blair’s cabinet to some extent, its political ideals were hard to come by due to its own theoretical limitations and political constraints, and eventually it was impossible to restore political positions of the British Labor Party s failure.