On The Democratic Appraisal Babbitt Cross Ethics Perspective

In order to save western moral crisis of liberal democracy, Babbitt critically absorbed the Western Christianity, ancient Greece, India, Chinese Buddhism Confucianism ethical resources a. Babbitt pursuit of democracy is built on lofty personal moral cultivation, the "higher consciousness" rational control of self behavior, moral basis to principles of humanity against laws, and the formation of a democratic spirit of good. High-quality elite leaders as a moral guide and the universal moral spirit is more suitable for human democracyIn the first part of this paper, focuses on the analysis of the problem of democratic style. utilitarian democracy is worth people to consider the spirit of democracy. The second part is about the crisis of Western democratic material performance, seeking the root causes behind the crisis of democracy. The third part is about the ethics resource Babbitt save western democratic crisis, not only from the West itself, such as the ancient Greek democracy, excellent Christian, but also deeply Confucian individual self-cultivation. Buddhist Theravada thought ethics to find out the cultural resources. The fourth part of this paper the state of democracy in China for hundreds of years, summarize what is true democracy, what is a high-quality democracy. The purpose of this paper is to reveal the American democracy is not "the end of history", the human is to find ways to improve democracy from its own character, ability and responsibility.