贝克教授这次在复旦高研院的讲座很成功，我其中提了以下问题（大意如下）：

 

 

It was a very fascinating and successful lecture. I have only one question.

 

 

The theory of world risk society, in my view, somehow still fundamentally rests on the old Hobbesian account of human nature, which is, of course, one drove primarily by self-preservation. The anticipation of catastrophe functions properly only through the self-preservative mode of human action: I act to avoid what I perceive as a coming disaster.

 

 

Unfortunately, this seems not the ultimate horizon for all human agents. Today, I mean, in the post-September 11 era, we witness once again that the power of ideas or ideology overthrows the Hobbesian Human nature: people act to primarily cause a self-destructive disaster in order to serve what they perceive as the supreme or divine Cause. In such cases, the drive of self-preservation (i.e. the logic of survival) simply fails to rule.

 

 

My question is: how does world risk society theory cope with this challenge?     

 

 

 

可惜贝克教授当时回答主要集中在霍布斯上，在晚饭时经邓正来老师与童世骏老师的提醒，他也承认当时误解了我的问题，然而，他仍是回避对它作回答。晚饭局上充满了轻松的笑话与欢快，贝克教授亦是一个很会搞气氛的高手。除了那个小小的缺憾，这真的是一次很愉快的思想交流。