探索与争鸣 ›› 2025, Vol. 1 ›› Issue (6): 48-55.

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价值的绝对与相对——当代中国社会家庭危机的分析

张再林
  

  • 出版日期:2025-06-20 发布日期:2025-06-20
  • 作者简介:张再林,西北工业大学马克思主义学院特聘教授,西安交通大学人文学院教授。(西安 710072)
  • 基金资助:
    国家社科基金重大项目“近现代中国价值观念史”(18ZDAQ20)

Absoluteness and Relativity of Values: An Analysis of Family Crisis in Contemporary Chinese Society

Zhang Zailin
  

  • Online:2025-06-20 Published:2025-06-20

摘要:

谈论当代中国社会家庭危机,就必然涉及道德价值的绝对性与相对性问题。从道德价值的绝对性出发,人们会坚持认为婚姻、家庭因其基于“上帝”或“天命”而神圣化、永恒化;从道德价值的相对性出发,人们则会主张婚姻、家庭因立足“个体”而世俗化、时代化、多样化。故基于家庭观上的绝对主义与相对主义去考察社会,该社会是谈不上所谓的“家庭危机”的,“家庭危机”只是一个“伪问题”。然而,随着全球化进程的推进,以及全球化中资本逻辑驱动下对个人利益追求的日益最大化、极致化,一旦我们从绝对与相对这一思辨理论回到现实,就会发现这种“家庭危机”的确发生了,并且它也成了“真问题”。而解决这一“家庭危机”的唯一途径并非仅仅回归传统家庭,而是使自己置身于经过现代化洗礼的既强调“个体本位”又强调“亲亲为大”的“双重本体”之中。

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Abstract:

When discussing the family crisis in contemporary Chinese society, it inevitably involves the issue of the absoluteness and relativity of moral values. Starting from the absoluteness of moral values, people will firmly insist that marriage and family are sanctified and eternalized based on “God” or “divine mandate”. Starting from the relativity of moral values, people will argue that marriage and family are secularized, time-bound, and diversified based on the “individual”. Therefore, when examining society from the perspectives of absolutism and relativism in family values, one cannot say that there is a so-called “family crisis” in such a society; the “family crisis” is just a “pseudo-problem”. However, with the advancement of the globalization process, and the increasingly maximized and extreme pursuit of personal interests driven by the logic of capital in globalization, once we return from the speculative theory of absoluteness and relativity to reality, we will find that this “family crisis” has indeed occurred and has become a “real problem”.

Key words: family crisis,  value absolutism,  value relativism,  globalization,  dual ontology