Global civilizing processes and the ambiguities of human interconnectedness
Global civilizing processes and the ambiguities of human interconnectedness
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全球文明进程和人类相互联系的模糊性
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2010
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A. Linklater
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几千年来，社会力量的增强在各个领域取得了令人瞩目的成就，同时也为更远距离造成更具破坏性的伤害带来了新的可能性。努力建立道德框架来保护人们免受无意义的伤害，是对人类相互联系的模糊性的重要回应。几千年来，社会已经融入了全球“文明进程”，例如现在涵盖整个人类的通信系统，使不同的民族能够更好地相互协调。国家社会对于这一长期发展具有巨大意义。在这些舞台上，独立社区发现了规范协议的前景和限制，这些规范可以扎根于陌生人之间最容易获得的团结点——世界各地的人类都面临着精神和身体痛苦的脆弱性。 “从世界主义的角度恢复普遍历史”可以审视国际社会对全球文明进程所做出的贡献，这些进程利用这种团结来限制人类对遥远的人民造成暴力和非暴力伤害的能力。它可以支持促进全球文明进程的规范性项目，利用前所未有的集体力量来减少伴随着人类相互联系程度更高的长期趋势而出现的模糊性所造成的悲剧性影响。
Increased social power over the millennia has led to remarkable achievements in varied spheres of endeavour while introducing new possibilities for more destructive forms of harm over greater distances. Efforts to create moral frameworks to protect persons from senseless harm have been critical replies to the ambiguities of human interconnectedness. Over the millennia, societies have become entangled in global ‘civilizing processes’ such as the systems of communication that now encompass humanity as a whole, enabling different peoples to become better attuned to each other. Societies of states have immense significance for that long-term development. They have been arenas in which independent communities have discovered the prospects for, as well as the constraints on, agreements on norms that can be anchored in the most readily available points of solidarity between strangers — those vulnerabilities to mental and physical suffering that are shared by human beings everywhere. The recovery of ‘universal history from a cosmopolitan point of view’ can examine the contribution that international societies have made to global civilizing processes that harness such solidarities to restrain the human capacity to cause violent and non-violent harm to distant peoples. It can support the normative project of promoting global civilizing processes that employ unprecedented levels of collective power to reduce the tragic effects of the ambiguities that have accompanied long-term trends towards higher levels of human interconnectedness.