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中世纪社会元样态与欧洲文明
Meta-Modes of the Medieval Society and the European Civilisation
【摘要】 本文系《中世纪与欧洲文明元规则》一文的逻辑延伸。旨在从社会“实然”层面追溯文明“应然”之源。中世纪社会的五大“元样态”——日耳曼传统、村社共同体、封建契约、基督宗教与经验性逻辑——尚属首次提出。这些元样态导源于初始与自发,且兼具基础性、典型性与结构延续性,深层浸透于中世纪的公共生活;其与元规则的确立知行相契,理据兼备,系统构成了欧洲文明生成的逻辑起点,从而夯实了其区别于古典文明及其他文明的特有界标。由此观之,当代西方文明面临的内在挑战在于:一旦文明元规则脱离具体历史情境与行动边界,其功能便可能由发展动力转化为结构性失范。
【Abstract】 As a logical extension of The Middle Ages and the Meta-Principles of European Civilisation,this article aims at tracing the generative path of the civilisational ’ought’(for example,the meta-principles) from the perspective of social ’is’(for example,empirical reality).The article conceptualises and explicates for the first time the five’meta-modes’ of the medieval society,namely:the Germanic tradition,the village community,the feudal contract,Christian religion,and empirical logic.Characterised by their primordial and spontaneous nature,while simultaneously embodying foundational,exemplary,and structurally continuous qualities,the meta-modes profoundly permeated the public sphere of the Middle Ages.In the historical process where knowledge and practice align,and theory and reality converge,the modes systematically constituted the logical starting point for the genesis of the European civilisation,thereby reinforcing the distinctive benchmarks that distinguish it from both Classical antiquity and other civilisational paradigms.Finally,the article reflects upon the intrinsic challenges confronting contemporary Western civilisation:once civilisational meta-principles divest themselves of specific historical contexts and behavioural boundaries,their function may deteriorate,mutating from an engine of development into a source of structural anomie.
- 【文献出处】 世界历史 ,World History , 编辑部邮箱 ,2026年03期
- 【分类号】K503
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