A Research On Communication Ethics Under The Background Of Human Relations

Communication, as human basic existing way, is a fact that is coming with human birth, but communicative problems are not anti-thought by human reason and not frontier-tasks in philosophical and ethical fields until recent years. Because of communicative alienation whose deep-layer innate character is crisis of people's spirit and value in modern days, communication becomes the focus of our age. All kinds of perplexities that exist in cultural values and morals disclose shortage and weak about contemporary theories of philosophy and ethics. The theory of communication ethics is being constructed, which is a way trying to get away from the predicament of modern ethics. Under the background of the culture of special human relations in China, communication ethics can acquire long-lasting vitality with its vaster value and idea.In the west, Jürgen Habermas'theory of communicative action and discourse ethics have a great significance of the philosophical type and a model conversion of the methodology, according to which there is a kind of communicative rationality among subjects that is totally different from the instrumental one. The public area of independent discourse that is based on communicative rationality is developed to prevent the life world from being colonized. As a catholicity of theory of communicative action in practical realm, discourse ethics searches for universal norms to reach the rationalization of communicative actions. Having a certain competence, subjects proceed the free, equal dialogue and consultation, and argue moral rules to reach communication and understanding in the ideal speech situation where there is no compulsion and force. The principle of universalization and principle of discourse ethics are souls of discourse ethics, completely showing its characteristics of deontology, cognition, universalism and formalism.In China, theoretical model of Chinese traditional communication ethics, which existed in traditional human relations society and presented the special racial kinds, might be refined from the thoughts of ancient thinkers. Specifically speaking, Chinese traditional communication ethics meant begging moral own in communicative subject, emphasizing the phonetic effect and ethical idea in communicative medium, facing all kinds of benefits and conflicts in communicative situation, seeking humanity and harmony in communicative principle, pursuing goodness in communicative aim. Accordingly, because of different ages'and social background, Chinese communication ethics of the traditional human relations and discourse ethics in the west present different mindsets. The former regards human relations as the basis, paying attention to pursue community value, the method of"reason in human feelings", etiquette and virtue and goodness; the latter regards individuals as the basis, emphasizing upholding individual rights, rational value, law systems and justice. Being inherent in Chinese traditional communication ethics, rational values become the cultural tradition that Chinese can't get way from, and that is affecting all aspects of social life today. Under the background of cultural tradition of human relations, a kind of brand-new theory of modern communication ethics can be acquired by integrating valuable parts in communication ethics in China with those in the west.As a kind of cultural tradition and background resource, lifeworld is a base of communication ethics under the background of the culture of human relations, which offers bases and sources of...