摘 要：宗教的多元化和整全学说（comprehensive doctrines）的多元化，与现代武器和前现代思维方式的结合，导致了如下问题：为了避免致命的“诸神之争”，是否有可能证明在不同宗教教义和文化传统中间存在着普遍有效的基本规范？如果有可能的话，就需要一种意识的现代化，它不仅包括一种宗教批判，而且包括一种科学合理性的自我批判性的批判。通过先验语用学和概念分析的一种调和来寻求一个肯定性的答案。
关键词： 反思的和商谈的合理性； 归谬论证； 内在于行动（“默会”）之知； 自我指涉的重构和创造性重述
The Need for a Modernization of Consciousness: for a Self-critical Critique of Rationality and of Religion
Gunnar Skirbekk
Abstract: The plurality of religions and comprehensive doctrines, combined with modern weaponry and pre-modern mentalities, leads to the question: is it possible to justify basic norms that are universally valid across religious doctrines and cultural traditions, in order to avoid a fatal “struggle between gods”? If so, there is a need for a modernization of consciousness that includes a self-critical critique of scientific rationality as well as a critique of religion. In this paper an affirmative answer is sought by a blend of transcendental pragmatics and conceptual analysis.
Key words: include reflective and discursive rationality; arguments from absurdity; act-inherent (“tacit”) knowing; self-referential reconstruction and creative redescription.
