从结果、行为到行为人：隐性采访的伦理抉择

道德困惑一直是隐性采访争论的焦点,功利主义、绝对命令、中庸之道等西方道德哲学在一定程度上能解读隐性采访面临的伦理困境。从行为的结果、行为本身到行为人,三种伦理学关注的焦点形成了一个呈逆时针方向的圆圈。功利主义是务实的,绝对命令维护了道德的纯洁性,中庸之道强调行为主体的道德修养,在这三种伦理框架的综合指导运用下,隐性采访完成了从客体到主体、由客观到主观的推理过程,伦理抉择变得更为连贯和一致,渐渐成为一种内涵。

From Outcome, Act to Agent: An Ethical Choice for Covert Interviews

Ethical dilemma is an always concern for covert interview. In this paper, this dilemma is interpreted in perspectives of utilitarianism, categorical imperatives and the virtue of mean. The theories＂ focuses on outcomes, on the acts, and on agents form a shift in counterclockwise circle. Utilitarianism concerns the practical, categorical imperative; the ethical purity; and the virtue of mean, the subject＇s ethical cultivation. Under the three ethical frameworks, covert interview undergoes a shift from object-focus to subject-focus, from objective inference to subjective reasoning. The ethical choices appear more consistent and coherent and become one of its inherent natures.