- 學位論文
基督教社群論者的公共倫理學- 哈沃華茲敘事與實踐
Hauerwas On Narrarive, Praxis and Public Ethics
摘要
論文摘要 在自由主義的政治意識型態主導之下，主張以一種個人主義、普遍化、私人化、去歷史化的倫理觀為依歸，基督教信仰的倫理主張變得尤其尷尬，同時也削弱了基督教的社會實踐以及信仰認同。究竟如何回應並對自由主義做出批評，基督教在自由主義政治的社會中可不可能提出自己的社會議程及倫理主張，考驗著基督教會在現代社會的生存和價值。 哈沃華茲在反駁自由主義以個人為主的公共倫理，提醒我們教會必須設定自己的倫理議程，而不是交由國家社會來決定。他認為我們可以就社群的姿態進入公共社會，展開公共的立場，為基督教倫理做辯護。基督教的公共倫理是透过耶稣的十字架以及聖經的敘事語言而落實在教會社群當中，這種以基督徒社群性的倫理是帶著敘事的語言操練著基督的門徒，並以實踐為有特殊另類的觀視，以期在現代社會之中成為具有德行品格以及能夠見證上帝國度的人。 對哈沃華茲而言，倫理不是公共，亦不是私有，而是政治。有別於自由主義政治哲學的公共倫理觀，宣稱教會必須要被認出是一個政治體，這樣公共倫理才能有其實踐性，並且避免使公共倫理成為一種暴力。在認出耶穌的十字架以及聖經具有政治性後，才能够使基督教倫理的公共性及其實踐成為可能。 關鍵字：敘事、實踐、社群、政治、政治體、私有、公共倫理
並列摘要
Abstract The political ideology of liberalism advocates individualism, universalism, privatization and dehistorization as the ethical benchmark. The advocacy of Christian ethics hence becomes particularly awkward, meanwhile the practice of Christianity and convictions are also wane off. The issue at stake is how to response in regard to liberalism, and how possible it will be for Christianity to voice out its social agenda and ethics advocacy in the liberal society. This will be the profound challenge for churches to sustain its survival and value in the modern society. Hauerwas disputes the concept of individualism of liberal society and more importantly reminds us that churches have to set and decide the ethics agenda by their own, instead of the state government. Hauerwas proposes that churches play the public role by having a guise of community gesture in order to defense Chrisitian ethics. The public ethics of Christianity are implemented through the cross of Jesus and the narrative language in the church community. Through the narrative language, Christ disciples are trained to have an alternative vision, hoping to become a virtue person who can testify the kingdom of God. For Hauerwas, ethics is neither public nor private; it is a politic. His proposition is certainly differ from the ethics perspective of political philosophy in liberalism. Hauerwas averred that churches must be viewed as a polity so that public ethics have the sense of praxis and evade the possibility of public ethics becoming a kind of violence. Only when we acknowledge the cross of Jesus and bible have the political nature, it then makes the public ethics and praxis of Christianity possible. Keywords: narrative, praxis, community, politics, polity, private，public ethics