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在泰勒看来,赋予实践以意义的是特定时空中的社会想象,民主理论必须渗入并改变特定时空的社会想象才能产生作用。民主的路径依赖性使得每个民主社会都形成了其独特的把自己理解为一个民主国家的方式以及符合这种理解的实践,都形成了自己特有的社会想象。在各具特色的社会想象中,每个民主国家的成员对其想象的共同体都具有强势的政治认同。而任何认同都是由他人的承认构成的,因而,这必然要求各民主国家相互承认与尊重彼此的民主文化。
To Taylor, the social imagination that gives meaning to practice is the social imagination in a specific space-time, and the democratic theory must infiltrate and change the social imagination in a specific space-time to be effective. The path dependence of democracy has led each democratic society to form its own unique way of understanding itself as a democratic nation and its practice in line with this understanding, and has formed its own unique social imagination. In distinctive social imagination, each member of a democratic state has a strong political identity for the community in which it is imagined. And any identity is made up of others’ recognition. Therefore, this necessarily requires that all democratic countries recognize each other and respect each other’s democratic culture.