A Study Of Citizen Consciousness In The View Of Public Reason

From the point of view of evolution of human community, citizen consciousness is the citizen individual liberation of the product of modern commodity economy operation form. In the allocation of social resources and the revolutionary change in human communication practice, in the political community individuals in the respect of subject qualification gradually get rid of "by the national swallowed" fate, and the liberation of individuality and confirmation of subject freedom enable citizens to gain an unprecedented level of independence so as to connotation of citizen be derived-calling for the universal equality and freedom, emphasis on human dignity and value, discovery of rights and the concept of the contract and the emergence of the concept of civil society were all can be seen as a conceptual framework that citizen connotation formed in one’s mind. Not only that, in modern political practice, industrial civilization of community life in the enormous material wealth to the people at the same time also caused a rapid differentiation of society, and a unified organization form fails to stop the individual pursuit of the different lifestyles, behavior patterns and value targets, and the rapid expansion of citizen’s main body concept and self consciousness continuously disintegrate the cultural identity of the community in the process of industrialization. But human’s social attribute and under the conditions of existing society production individual rationality ability of imperfect nature make "social cooperation between self and others" necessary and possible, as citizens of this political existence and corresponding practical reason, citizen consciousness will undoubtedly play an independent qualification of subject of civil norms role. On the one hand, citizen consciousness shapes the concept of value rationality, equality and freedom; On the other hand, it also must shoulder shape the responsibility of public spirit and social responsibility. In this way, the inherent tension of citizen consciousness and citizen peer must learn to mutual achieve "individual combination".The idea of public reason and the ideal are based on the facts of reasonable pluralism in modern democratic society, which not only respect the various reasonable comprehensive doctrines caused by social interest differentiation but also attach to the latter to achieve universal "overlapping consensus". The special requirements of the public interest, public domain, public spirit, public liability and public action to the political value of the target of public reason in the construction of a fair system of social cooperation can be rational and reasonable citizens of peer support, while these requirements constitute a reasonable expectation of modern political community on the individual citizen. In modern society, to explore citizen consciousness and public reason coupling relationship can not only to gather together the power of human community evolution but also greatly enrich the content of citizen consciousness. In modern society, the excavation of the coupling relationship between civic awareness and public reason can not only regather up the evolutionary power of the human community but also to enrich the content of the civic awareness force. In the community to accelerate the transition of China, the development of civic awareness is also facing by the ethical spirit of tradition to the modern value of the statute of the difficulties in transforming. Accelerated differentiation and stratification of society has brought the value differences between different groups, between citizens and the state, self and others. Whether we should maintain the kinds of relationships in order to maintain coexistence in the community? The answer seems to be infinite. Under the market economy system of individual rational construction of the moral world, citizen consciousness seems to become a Rashomon-filled with a variety of relative value criteria. Therefore, only by public reason that political value converted to and from the civic culture construction, the transformation of civic education and civic participation orderly path can effectively resolve conflicts caused by the diversity and differences and ultimately free people from the "the burdens of judgment".