| 英文摘要 |
This article provides an interpretation of Professor Shan-Hao Sun's statement that“All‘Ought’Questions can be turned into‘Is’Questions”. In 2012, Professor Sun was invited to the National Sun Yat-sen University to participate in the workshop on‘Can we talk about justice’, where he made a counterintuitive claim that justice is an‘Is’issue. The statement runs counter to the distinction between‘ought’and‘is’widely accepted in contemporary Anglo-American analytical political philosophy, and the question of justice, at least in mainstream Anglo-American discourse, is a question of what we ought to do. Unfortunately, this topic has remained unexplored since the death of Professor Shan-Hao Sun in 2017. The paper aims to interpret and defend Professor Sun's claim by constructing a comprehensive account with reference to his published articles, edited works, an interview transcript, and an unpublished anthology of Karl Marx's writings that has been circulated among his students. First, it clarifies the distinction between‘ought’and‘is’, and I argued that the idea that‘justice is an‘Is’issue’should be understood as a methodological claim. The paper then proceeds to explain what is meant by‘justice is an‘Is’issue’via three lines: Marx's theory of Historical Materialism, the distinction between scientific and utopian socialism, and Marx's conception of justice (which includes his discussion of communism). Accordingly, this paper complements and completes Professor Sun's unfinished thesis and highlights his contributions and achievements in the history of Taiwan political thoughts. |