Study Zygmunt Bauman’s Conception Of Moral Responsibility

In the context of the post-modern social thought, Zygmunt Bauman use his unique perspective to explain the concept of ethics, he advocated morality is non-ethics morality. abandoning the ethical rules and appealling the ethics emotional. In his unique ethical systems, the concept of moral responsibility is no separate chapters, but can discover the moral responsibility view dazzling ray from his a series of work.Bauman’s moral responsibility view forms in the special social time, combined with the life experience of himself as Jewish identity。 so that the concept of moral responsibility to the beginning to re-examine the events of the Holocaust began. The foundation of moral responsibility view is the concept of" the other", Bauman makes a distinction between four types of people, "the other" is the difference between the concept of Levinas and Sartre. Subsequently, Bauman made his desire to assume moral responsibility of the other. Moral responsibility to the other has non-purpose, non-beneficial, non-contract, non-rational character. It has great significance for society. But we have to admit that the concept of moral responsibility to some extent with the utopian fantasy.Recalls the reality, Bauman’s moral responsibility view can realize? This requires the double protection of moral conscience and fairness and justice. Moral conscience is the most primitive impulses evoke human responsibility to "the other". Achievement of the moral conscience requires fairness and justice society to provide a platform, fairness and justice even more important than the moral conscience. people have a sense of" the other" not to think about moral dilemmas, but will take the just action directly, the moral dilemmas position solves from this.