Necessity And Path Selection Of The Construction Of Risk Ethics

We are in a risk society today. Risk is everywhere. It is indeed a new attempt to treat risk in ethics perspective and construct risk ethics.It is necessary to construct risk ethics. Because the traditional ethics theory, such as motivation theory and consequence theory, theory of rights and contract theory can’t cope with the ethic need of the uncertainty risk. Therefore, we should study the nature and responsibility of the uncertain risk ethics and explore it deeply based on the risk ethics and ethic risk and their overlapping field. Risk ethics also has the necessity of the practical construction. It mainly reflects that the potential uncertainty risk in the event process of interpersonal relations and the relationship between man and nature needs the ethical examination and evaluation. It is necessary to discard the traditional interpersonal ethics and extension of ecological ethics between man and nature.The phenomenon of risk ethics has the stage of historical development. It experienced the ancient natural risk ethics, modern social risk ethics, modern natural-social risk ethical, contemporary nature-science and technology-social risk ethics. Risk ethics is the ethical response to the risk of human beings. This reaction has the right and wrong, good and evil;The risk ethics is an ethical theory on ethics and risk. It is an open theoretical system about belief, attitude, principle and standard of risk. It mainly studies the ethical responsibility, moral obligation and the value structure of ethical considerations existed in the uncertainty risks in contemporary society. In particular, it is to establish the thinking way of uncertain risk ethics and the decision making consciousness of risk ethics reflecting the future. The principles of risk ethics construction include doctrine of fair consideration of risk, criterion of liability and exemption of risk, principle of know and ignorance.