The Study On Current Dilemma And Outlet Of Universal Ethic

Universal Ethic is a popular issue of applied ethics at current. With the background of the globalization, the development of the Universal Ethic has had been in a theoretical dilemma of which can't to be get rid, at one time, there is a new chance to develop the universal ethic theory. Beginning with the definition of Universal Ethic, this thesis thoroughly analyze the reason and the manifestness of the dilemma, analyze and integrate the outlet of Universal Ethic by the historic way, then put forward a new practical approach. Surround this main content, the thesis expounds from the four sections:Section 1: the connotation of Universal Ethic. This section mainly aims at the illegibility of the definition of Universal Ethic, analyze Universal Ethic's raising and the background reasons, and expatiate the connotation, possibility and limit of Universal Ethic, consequently, giving a theoretic premise for further research.Section 2: the contemporary dilemma of Universal Ethic. Because of a visual threshold's parochialism and crusted method, the "universal ethic" pursued in history can not provide correct theoretic instruction for living moral life, therefore, it is impossible to resolve moral problems, such as the absence of personal consciousness of burden to the globalization, the conflict of different communities, ect.Section 3: the explore of the outlet of Universal Ethic. This part has had hunt the construction of Universal Ethic and given some brief reviews, with the three main contemporary theoretic visual angle: western modernity, post- modernity, ex- modernity and new Confucianism. These theories supply very important academic resource to our research today.Section 4: Toward Universal Ethic. This part extracts the ideas of western modernity, post- modernity, ex-modernity and new Confucianism, and tries to get a "common sense of pluralistic nous" at the cross point of concurrent models and consecutive models by the way in a synthetical thinking method.