论应用伦理学研究的重要使命

探寻从行为“实然”到道德“应然”的中介 ,是应用伦理学的重要使命。“适然”是连接“实然”的世俗性和“应然”的超越性的桥梁。“适然”是从“应然”到道德“实然”的可操作性体系。它包括转化系统、接收系统、决策系统、评估系统等四个相互联系又相互区别的方面。因此 ,应用伦理学的研究有两条可供选择的思路 :伦理学的应用和应用伦理学。对前者弊端的分析表明 ,后者才是优化的选择。加强后者的研究 ,是当代中国伦理学建设的一个重要理论使命

On the Important Mission of Applied Ethical Studies

It is an important mission of applied ethics to search for the medium between "actuality" and moral "obligations"."Appropriateness" is the bridge that connects the secular "actuality" with transcendental "obligations". It is an operational system which consists of four sub-systems relating with and yet differing from each other: system of conversion, of reception, of decision-making and of assessment. Consequently, two approaches are there for the study of ethics: application of ethics and applied ethics. An analysis into the drawbacks of the former shows that applied ethics is the optimized alternative. To strengthen the study of applied ethics is an important theoretical mission of contemporary Chinese ethicists.