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Public Family And Public Philosophy

Posted on:2015-09-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z Y ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2176330431469752Subject:Political Theory
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As the social values of the storage pool, culture profoundly reflects theevolution of society.Cultural conservatism, innovation, and regression are worthy ofcareful study.Based on attention to cultural, the author chooses Daniel bells culturalcritical theory as my study`s thesis.Critique of liberalism is an important direction of Daniel bell thought, thepurpose of the critique is not upset, but on reflection of the correction and certainlyagain. Placing Bells theory of cultural criticism in history of liberalism and even in avariety of claims of political ideological trend of "freedom" to give the comparativeanalysis, we can get out what bell is to be conservative and what is to bedismissed.Therefore, one of the characteristic of this paper is to spread in the overallframework of various dialogue type.Bells interpretation of the capitalist society provides a newmacroeconomic perspective to re-examine the western society. Bell split the linearlogic relation among the economic, political and cultural.They all have theirindependent features: functional rationality, legitimacy, self-expression.Everyattribute attempts to forge a adapted character: restraint, struggle, innovation andfeatures the contrary result in a temperament of disruptive, namely the culturalcontradictions of capitalism. This article also followed the logical context of thefracture of the methodology and analytic bells theory of cultural criticism.Liberalism is the mainstream values of the contemporary westernsociety.The rights take precedence over good, personal over community, is the coreof the contemporary liberal creed.For the diversity of economy andculture,contemporary liberalism abides by the principle of neutrality.Pressed byreligious ethics in traditional social,under the connivance of modern liberalism anddemocracy,economic hedonism and moral nihilism gain is social legitimacy. Bellintend to get to a balance between the individual and the community through thepublic household and the public philosophy.Let the society from the "interest" get tothe "misconduct" to the "virtue". Therefore, basic task and the academic innovation of this article is: through reading bells work, to clarify the basic logic of liberalthought-bell will be basis of liberal orientation in the public interest and publicvalues, namely the community standard rather than absolute sense of personalstandard.
Keywords/Search Tags:Daniel bell, Liberalism, The cultural contradictions of capitalism, The Public philosophy, the Public household
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