The Ethical Dimension Of Literary Activities

With the rapid development of science and technology at the period of social transformation in the current world,many problems people are confronting with their existence can be attributed to ethical issues.Literary activities,which are components of social activities,are of great significance for people's reflection on the ethical issues existing at present and their imaginative construction of the ethical structure in the future.The relation body of literary activities has ethical attributes.Literary value,which is a comprehensive value system,is generated in the overall literary activities carried out encompassing literary works.The study of literary ethics is a process in which the ethical value of literature is generated in the field of literary activities.Value is generated in a relation structure;and similarly,ethical value is generated in the body of ethical relations.It is the decision-making system of the relation subjects for value judgment and behavior regulation.The subjects of literary activities judge the ethical value of their literary activities in the existing ethical structure which is generated under the influence of comprehensive social factors.Meanwhile,ethical values regulate the behavior of the subjects of literary activities and consequently integrate into the whole construct of the social value system.Ethics is present in all literary activities and makes desirable and unearthly ethical presupposition in them.Literary activities play a constructive role in the structure of social relations via functional influence.The subjects of literary creation are the source for the generation of literary ethical value.The ethical awareness of the creative subjects is generated by way of their realistic choice within the regulations of history and culture.Through the aesthetic artistic communication of literary works,the ethical awareness of the creative subjects has a constitutive influence on the generation of the value of literary works.The factors such as the nationality,times,and region of the creative subjects confined in the existing ethics is artistically presented in literary works.In literary activities,the creative subjects,who are influenced by times,make realistic choices,either following the main ethical ideas or disobeying them.In the ethical structure of fictional literary works,the cognitive judgment on the dynamic development of social ethical structure is expressed through the ways such as the characters' behavior,emotions and viewpoints to realize their pursuit of literary ethical value.In literary activities,the ethical awareness of the creative subjects is aesthetically transformed into the ethical value of literary works.The ways used in literary works to express art are different.The creative subjects produce the ethical value of literary works by way of image,atmosphere,theme and etc.Meanwhile,the generation of the ethical value of any literary work is complex and it is not generated through one single artistic way.Image,artistic conception,theme and other generative modes play a prescriptive role for the ethical form in specific literary works.In literary works,the artistic expression of traditional ethics has its significance for realizing its current construction.At the same time,any ethical concept should adapt to the current social ethical relationship,be developed reasonably,change with times in the current reality,and enter into the ethical reflection system of the construction of social ethical structure.The main body of literary criticism has completed constructing its own value system when entering into the criticism activities.Choosing the method of literary criticism,establishing the purpose of literary criticism and synthesizing the value in the process of criticism are not only critic methods for moralism in literary ethical criticism,but also basis for all the criticisms to ethical value.Nowadays,Chinese literary ethical criticism is a quite active one.However,the social transformation has brought about the ethical disorder of literary activities.Some literary criticism is unrealistic,and the commercialization of literary communication is quite serious,which results in the weakening of the function of literary ethics.The critical basis for literary ethical criticism lies in the homogeneity of literary criticism and ethical activities.The empirical,conceptual and situational nature of ethical formation is the critical basis for literary ethical criticism.Any kind of literary criticism activity is supposed to be conducted in accordance with certain criteria.The criteria for literary ethical criticism have both the common ones and the unique ones due to the trait of literary ethical criticism.The criteria for literary ethical criticism include historical criteria,age criteria,aesthetic criteria and personality criteria.These criteria are comprehensively utilized by the subjects of criticism in the activities of literary ethical criticism.As a critical activity for criticizing and explaining the social value and significance of literary activities,literary ethical criticism presents different forms in its criticism.The critical forms of literary ethical criticism mainly include empirical state,conscious state,inclining state and judgment state.The subjects of dissemination and acceptance have ethical demands in the activities of literary dissemination and acceptance.Cultural review,publication,award evaluation and literary education in the activities of literary communication are all conducted under the control of the mainstream social consciousness toward system and resources.At the same time,this control also contains the requirements for constructing social core values and makes the ethical value and ethical tendencies of literary works become important standards for literary communication.The acceptance motivation of the subjects of popular literature in literary reading is diverse,among which the literary experience of ethical emotion is the main one.Whether it is the self-recognition of classical reading,the entertainment of novelty-hunting reading,or the interactive appeal of fragmented reading,the subject of acceptance obtains the emotional communication and satisfaction in literary reading activities.The body of social relations is constructed and constantly improved under the impetus of social responsibility ethics and order ethics.The structure of social ethics is constantly adjusted with the development of the times.Literature makes difference in constructing a harmonious community via artistic imagination based on the present and directed to the future.Literary ethics,through interpreting the process of ethical value formation in literary activities,promotes literary activities to realize their social constructive significance in the ethical dimension.