设计哲学的性质、视野和意义

设计作为一种发源于或基于生产劳动的广义的创造活动,与人类的认识活动和能力一样,是人类的基本活动及其内在机制之一。传统哲学中的认识论主义和先验的道德主义,使得哲学基本上丧失对这一基本人类活动领域的洞察力,这是哲学的一个严重的疏漏和错误,但这种错漏的根源在于社会历史本身的局限性。在工业社会和高技术时代,设计或广义的创制活动越来越成为工业世界以及整个人类社会的存在基础。探讨设计和创制活动的机制和社会文化意义,不仅可以恢复哲学应有的宽阔视野和文化活力,而且对于理解和应对当代社会和文化的诸多矛盾将发挥极其重要的作用。

Nature,Perspective,and Significance of Design Philosophy

Design in the broad sense is a creative activity originated from or based on productive labor,and is one of the internal mechanism of human activity,similar to other human cognition and capacity.The epistemology and the transcendental ethics in traditional philosophy have almost deprived philosophy of the insights from this fundamental area of human activity,which is a severe negligence and mistake rooted in the limits of the society and history itself.In the industrial and high technological era,design or ...