An exploration of the relation between the concepts of 'community' and 'future' in philosophy

这一范围界定的研究和研究综述考察了一系列当代和历史的哲学方法，以理解“社区”和“未来”概念之间的关系。在两条研究路线中，产生了对六个理论线索的概述，包括美德伦理学、哲学自由主义、能力方法、认知理论、G·阿甘本(线索1)和E·布洛赫(线索2)的哲学。结果表明，未来性和未来取向虽然隐含地存在，但在大多数理论中被边缘化为明确的本体论探究对象。因此，哲学家在处理现在和未来社会之间的伦理关系时，没有足够的本体论基础来处理所讨论的关系。未来的“尚未”在本体论上是复杂的，它对社区性质的影响也是复杂的。为了更深入地研究它，未来取向的线性和单向性需要受到质疑。作为未来的未来需要被承认为潜力池，而不仅仅是等待中的现在现实。这就需要对未来和未来取向的定性和关系方面进行探讨。同时，还需要阐明这种复杂性和社区构成因素之间的关系。

This scoping study and research review has examined a range of contemporary and historical philosophical approaches to understanding the relation between the concepts of 'community' and 'future'. In two lines of research an overview of six theoretical strands was produced, including virtue ethics, philosophical liberalism, the capabilities-approach, recognition theory, the philosophy of G. Agamben (strand 1) and E. Bloch (strand 2).It emerged that futurity and future-orientation, although implicitly present, are marginalised as explicit objects of an ontological enquiry in most theories. As a result, philosophers, whilst dealing with ethical relations between present and future community, do so without a sufficient ontological foundation of the relations in question. The 'not yet' of the future is ontologically complex, as is its impact on the nature of community.To investigate it deeper, the linearity and uni-directionality of future orientation needs to be contested. The future as future needs to be acknowledged as a pool of potentialities and not merely as present reality in waiting. This warrants an exploration of qualitative and relationalaspects of future and future orientation. At the same time the relation between the complex notyet and the constitutive factors of community needs to be articulated.