Abstract:From the 18th to the 20th century, the ideas of public rationality advanced by Kant, Weber and Rawls et al. are different in base and development theme, though they are of monist nature. Kant’s universal human rationality is based on epistemology and still tinted with the rationality of the middle ages. Weber’s tool rationality has completely integrated itself into the public organization but discarded the value attribute. Rawls tempted to law’s formality and moral guidance into his public rationality which, though, is confined to political realm. Generally speaking, the public rationality in an industrial society is the monist public rationality. In the process of postindustrialization, Bouman etc. supposed that the public domains and their values are multidimensional and suggested the public rationality be multidimensional as well. This is a revolutionary change. But the inborn competitive nature of these ideas hampers the cooperation governance. So public rationality is likely to assume the form of cooperation rationality.
谢新水. 公共理性发展:从一元、多元到合作理性[J]. 江苏大学学报(社会科学版), 2010, 12(6): 18-24.
Xie Xinshui. On the Development Context of Public Rationality and
its Pattern in PostIndustrial Society. Journal of Jiangsu University(Social Science Editi, 2010, 12(6): 18-24.