To Explore Contemporary Social And Moral Responsibility

Moral responsibility is a very important category which plays a great role in meta-ethics and in applying ethics. With the development of society and economy and of the science and technology, the abilities of individuals ,who can make more kinds of choices on the base of freedom while many persons have deficiency in understanding the moral responsibility and ignored their moral responsibility in some fields,have been improved much more. So how to realize moral responsibility and finish it to apply one's own freedom appropriately becomes a problem that people face with. Moral responsibility is recognized differently in Western culture and Chinese traditional culture. The essay has firstly reviewed two different understandings about moral responsibility which is referred to more with freedom in a certain agreement. But our traditional culture emphasizes a kind of initute of obligation and freedom. In an open society, moral responsibility should be defined by new opinions which tell us that moral responsibility is based on choosing freely. Then we study condition of reality moral responsibility comes from. In the mean time, you are told the meaning of emphasizing the moral responsibility which plays a key role in the constructing the morality and in the running healtilly of the market economy and in the development of society and especially, it is a good way to cultivate ourself. Finally we finds some key fields and behaving that the people ignore their moral responsibility and ways to develop social morality.