普罗米修斯神话与民主政制的难题——柏拉图《普罗塔戈拉》中的神话解析

发布时间：2018-05-07 22:31

本文选题：柏拉图 + 苏格拉底　；参考：《学术月刊》2016年05期

【摘要】：民主政制的正当性论证,是现代政治哲学的基础论题,其中的一些理论难题迄今没有世所公认的答案。自然状态论是现代民主政制理论的基石,然而,政治哲学中的自然状态论并非17世纪的西方理论家的发明,古希腊的政治理论中最为成形的自然状态论见于柏拉图的著名对话《普罗塔戈拉》中的普罗米修斯神话。智术师普罗塔戈拉史称西方第一位政治学家,他通过编造普罗米修斯神话提出了一种政治的自然起源说。但与17世纪的哲人通过自然状态论来论证民主政制不同,普罗塔戈拉的自然状态论却是要论证君主制的正当性。可见,自然状态论也可以证明民主政制的正当性难以成立。
[Abstract]:The justification of democratic political system is the basic topic of modern political philosophy. The theory of natural state is the cornerstone of the theory of modern democratic political system. However, the theory of natural state in political philosophy is not the invention of western theorists in the 17th century. The most formative theory of natural state in the political theory of ancient Greece is the Prometheus myth in Plato's famous dialogue Protagora. Protagoras, the intellectual master, called the first political scientist in the West, who invented the Prometheus myth and proposed a theory of the natural origin of politics. But unlike the philosophers of the 17th century who demonstrated democracy through the theory of natural state, Protagora's theory of natural state was to justify the monarchy. It can be seen that the theory of natural state can also prove that the legitimacy of a democratic political system is difficult to establish.
【作者单位】：中国人民大学文学院;
【分类号】：B502.231

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