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Ethical Thinking On Happiness

Posted on:2006-04-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360152981556Subject:Ethics
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Happiness is a complicated, integrative concept, and this article aims at discussing the issue of happiness in ethics category. Firstly, this article specifies the meaning of ethical happiness, and points out that need is internal driving strength of happiness, whereas pleasure is a concomitant phenomenon of happiness, happiness and adversity is a pair of contradictions which are dialectical unity. Secondly, living in social relations, people need to think about morality and happiness throughout the course of seeking for happiness, and this course of thinking is developing from opponency and sublation to unity actually. Thirdly, when hackling happiness ethics thoughts of china and western countries, we find Chinese virtues which have been transferred for thousands of years being striked by what is called western modern civilization. When the door of reform and opening opens wide towards the world, various western philosophy and values break in like a billow. Especially in modern society, people's living standard upgrades in a fast speed, it seems that they have more reasons to spurn traditional and rational morality restriction, and this article's internal thinking logic is to find a...
Keywords/Search Tags:happiness, morality, consumerism, juvenile
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