| The purpose of Evolution of the Western Catholic Ethical Ideas is to seek the history and change of Western Catholic ethical development , and try to dowse the reason and course, explain the change and development on the impact of every time and every society, and spirit resource and moral resource and formative quality, illustrate the difference of religion and ethic, classify the relation and impact and role among the main religions on the ethic, study actual development state and actual significance of Catholic ethic, seek the meaning and role.Evolution of the Western Catholic Ethical Ideas belongs to the scope of interdisciplinary cultural study. Based on historical research, it need bring in modern philosophical theory and research production of ethnology and anthropology to enrich its own argumentation. We hope to reflect the scene of Western Catholic with such study.The paper mainly focuses on the Evolution of the Western Catholic Ethical Ideas. In the first of all six parts some key issues of study including the fundamental theories and conceptions, the research scope and recent research progress are discussed.Part Two elucidates the base of Western ethical ideas in the time of ancient Greece and Rome. Firstly narrates the ethical ideas of great Socrates and Plato and Aristotle, and then analyses the ethical ideas of post- Aristotle time, discusses the ethical ideas of Rome time, clarifies the Christian ethical ideas.Part Three discusses the popularity of Western ethical religion in the Middle Ages. The content includes the religious ethic of Augustine time and the religious ethic of Aquinas time and religious philosophy and ethical religion. It mainly illuminates the reason of the change and vibrancy of Western ethical religion in the Middle Ages.Part Four analyses the connotation and explanation of Bible ethic. It demonstrates the change of Bible ethic and the ethical ideas of the Old Testament and the ethical ideas of the New Testament.Part Five addresses Thomism and its ethical ideas and Neo-Thomism and its inner controversy and Catholic ethical ideas after the Second Vatican Council, expounds historical background and academic origin, researches into historical track and inspirit particularity of the evolution of Catholic ethical ideas.Part Six evaluates on realistic status of Western Catholic ethical ideas, discusses the significance on the human culture. |
