SAE Cooperation Theory Paper 7: The Process / SAE 合作论 Paper 7: 过程

This paper takes the cooperation this series reads, and reads it as a process: how the effects read in the earlier papers sediment between two people, in time, how they shift, how they stop, and what is left once they have stopped. Cooperation is a process; this series reads the process, not the settlement. Ending is read only within the process, and endings are not classified: how a thing continues, pauses or stops; the agreed thing being done, the conditions being gone, the thing not getting done: all of these are shapes the process may take; where unilateral withdrawal occurs among them, it is entered apart. What is done together sediments in time: how division of labor is set and how it changes, how expectation grows out of dealings, how an agreed arrangement is borne year after year, and asked about again and changed when needed; this series does not require avowing anew each time, nor is implicit commitment inferred from duration or habit alone. Stability is read party by party, and carries no evaluation: the question is, for each end, whether his staying in this undertaking has grounds in his own law. The standard of completion, the facts that have already happened, the judgments made by a procedure both parties have already recognized, and each one's looking back on this process are entered separately; the two may read completion differently, one party cannot declare an avowal on the other's behalf, and existing facts and a valid procedure do not lapse automatically because evaluations still differ. One party's withdrawing his own side is his exit; shared matters that remain after parting are not settled by unilateral exit; leaving shared matters room for natural development when one exits points in the direction of cultivation; saying for the other party, on exiting, what this exit amounts to slides in the direction of colonization. After it is done, no "we" is left behind to legislate for the two; this sentence says only that the two do not form one bearer; the two may each change through this undertaking, and the relation, effects and commitments thereafter do not vanish automatically because it is done. When two one-way 15DDs meet at a moment of doing this undertaking together, that is the moment of two-way 15DD, and this series takes up only that moment: it is something that happens on an occasion, not a grade that a stretch of cooperation is in, and it does not make later dealings mutual automatically; this series does not touch 16DD itself, nor does it take up mutual non dubito that can hold at any time and in any place, nor the change in the individual at that moment. This paper points back to Aristotle and Arendt, whom Relation Theory has already taken up, and takes the two hexagrams Jiji and Weiji of the Book of Changes as the image at its close. It does not prove that the longer cooperation lasts the better, does not prove that cooperation that is done is better than cooperation that is not, and does not prove that one ought to see it through until it is done. 这一篇把这个系列读的合作当作一个过程来读:前几篇读到的那些作用,在两个人之间、在时间里怎样沉积,怎样变动,怎样停下,停下以后留下什么。合作是一个过程;这个系列读过程,不读结算。结束只在过程里读,不给结束分类:一件事怎样继续、暂停或停止,约定的事做完了,条件没有了,没有做成,都是过程里可能有的样子;其中发生单方收回的,另记。 一起做的事在时间里沉积:分工怎样定下又怎样变,期待怎样从来往里长出来,说定的安排怎样被一年年承担下去,必要时重新问、重新改;这个系列不要求每一次都重新认领,隐含的承诺也不从时长或习惯里单独推出来。稳定逐方读,不带评价:问的是每一端留在这件事里,在他自己的法里有没有根据。完成的标准、已经发生的事实、已认程序作出的判断,与各人对这一过程的回看,分别记;两人对完成可能读得不一样,一方不能替另一方宣布认下,已有的事实与有效的程序也不因尚有不同的评价就自动失效。一方收回自己这一侧,是他的退出;分开以后仍在的共同的事,不以单方退出结清;退出时给共同的事留出自然发展的空间,朝涵育这个方向;退出时替对方说这次退出算什么,滑向殖民的方向。做完以后,没有一个「我们」留下来替两人立法;这一句只说两人不合成一个承担者,两人可能经这件事各自改变,此后的关系、作用与承诺也不因做完自动消失。两个单向的 15DD 在一起做这件事的一刻碰上,是双向 15DD 的瞬间,这个系列只接这一瞬间:它是一次发生的事,不是一段合作所处的等级,不使此后的来往自动成为双向;16DD 本身不碰,何时何地都能成立的双向不疑不接,那一刻时个人身上的变化也不接。 这一篇回指关系论已经对过的亚里士多德与阿伦特,以《周易》既济、未济两卦作篇末的意象。这一篇不证明合作越久越好,不证明做完的合作比没做完的好,也不证明应当做完。