当代伦理学发展的三维向度

伦理学是关于道德的理论,它要反思、论证和回答的问题主要有三个:道德推理的有效性问题、判断是非善恶的标准问题及道德的应用和实现问题。对这些问题的探求和回答既形成了伦理学内部的元伦理学、规范伦理学和应用伦理学等形态的区分,又指示了考察伦理学形态发展的三维向度。正是在这个意义上,我们把当代伦理学的发展定位于三维向度:其一,厚薄之间,即权威伦理—境遇伦理—程序伦理;其二,群己之外,即义务伦理—权利伦理—责任伦理;其三,由近及远,即族群伦理—全球伦理—生态伦理。

Three Dimensions of the Development of Modern Ethics

Ethics is the science of morality.It reflects on,argues and answers three major issues: the validity of reasoning morally,the standard of the judgment between the moral and the immoral,and the application and realization of morality.To quest these issues leads to the differentiating criteria among meta-ethics,normative ethics and applied ethics in ethics and the three dimensions for examining the morphological development of ethics.It is in this sense that three dimensions have been applied to the judgment ...