The Introversive Political Meritocracy:A Political Possibility Beyond"The End of History"

• 作者: Guodong Sun
• 来源期刊: 复旦人文社会科学论丛:英文版
• 学科: 工学
• 关键词: The end of HISTORY POLITICAL MERITOCRACY Modernity Arete based onaltruism Introversive SELF-CULTIVATION
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（4）
• 页码范围: 569-585
• 页数: 17页
• 分类号: TG1

摘要

The criticisms of the falsity of universal recognition carried|out by leftists,led by Karl Max,and the queries of its desirability proposed by rightists,represented by Friedrich Nietzsche,raise challenges to Francis Fukuyama’s theory of“the end of history”from two opposite directions.At present,Chinese-style political meritoc racy based on the party state is a political form that combines these left-wing and right-wing challenges and has the potential to move beyond“the end of history”.However,whether it can truly surpass“the end of history”depends on whether it can form a desirable and stable alternative political form under modern condi tions.To this end,Chinese-style political meritocracy must respond positively to the three challenges it faces under modern conditions:the tension between“debicheng-wei”(one’s virtue must have a matching position,德必称位)and moral universal-ism,the corrosion of social justice from the hierarchical social structure caused by“weibichenglu”(one’s position must have a matching salary,位必称禄),and the threat of social indoctrination to individual autonomy.The“introversive political meritocracy”jointly shaped by“advocating morals for the public,”“arete based on altruism,”and“introversive self-cultivation”is a desirable political form that can successfully respond to these three challenges.