Modernity: Not Yet Completes Enterprise Or Dangerous Trap

This article divides into five parts. The first part is a foreword, it mainly elaborated Foucault and Habennas to the modernity manner. Second part of main narration modernity connotation. First limits to the modernity definition; Next carries on the modernity and the modernization the comparison, the modernity is the energetic stratification plane, the modernized characteristic is the realistic stratification plane, it pays attention to the material stratification plane, the system stratification plane and the population condition.. Finally analyzes the modernity and the modernized relations, has the problem to the modernized advancement in to carry on the elaboration analysis. The third part is Foucault to the modernity thorough critique. Foucault opposition the Enlightenment and the rationality, the liberation, the progress and so on with, he believed that, the modernity materially is one kind of control and the dominant form, will direct the people to move towards the dangerous the region. In authority theory, the rationality by the authority control, by the order, the standard form brings to the individual constrains, under the authority main body is the delay, obeys passively. The fourth part narrated Habennas modernity view. Habennas thought "the modernity is one kind of not unexpectedly enterprise", he proposed the rationality is by no means incurable. He criticizes the tool rationality, proposed with the contact rationality substitution tool rationality, the realization follows the rational mutual recognition the ideal society. He thought the standard is associates the mainbody to achieve the mutual recognition the platform, emphasized between the mainbody the nature can maintain individual the difference, perfect individual development; Fifth part of elaboration Foucault and Habennas argument to Chinese linguistic environment modernity significance. China traditional culture does not have the hosts and visitors two minute angles of view, the human and the society, with other people, merges into one organic whole with the natural circle is the Chinese thought highest boundary, thus Habermas and Foucault struggle with difficulty understood without doubt To the Chinese modern culture, Habermas and Foucault argument may obtain three enlightenment: Although has the question which many is unable to solve, Habermas emphasized the standard order platform is beneficial between the multicultural the exchange and the understanding;Foucault authority theory gives our modern civilized order to construct by one kind of sober criterion; In China traditional culture the angle of view, is advantageous in alleviates day by day tense individual and the outside relation. This article also attempts to try to prove is born cultural in the western modernity the foundation, forms the multiplication, unique which can obtain lasting vitality this question.