New Ethics: A Study of the Formulation and Implementation of Good Morality: A Study of the Formulation and Implementation of Good Morality

Author: Wang Haoming
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Publish Date: 2001-02-01
Features: Morality is created by humans, but only bad morality can be arbitrarily created; while good morality can only be derived and established from behavioral facts through the purpose of creating morality, i.e., the ultimate moral standards. The superiority or inferiority of the moral norms established for how behavior should be depends on the truth or falsehood of the objective nature of behavioral facts and the understanding of moral purposes. This book was meticulously written by the author over sixteen years. It integrates three sciences—metaphysics of ethics, normative ethics, and virtue ethics—which have always been independent or even mutually contradictory—by confirming the relationship between "how things should be" and "how things are." Starting from the premise that the good morality of how behavior should be must conform to the objective nature of how behavior is, it reveals on the one hand the sixteen types, six categories, and four laws of how behavior is; on the other hand, it derives from this the moral general principle "goodness" and the moral principles for treating others "justice, humanity, freedom," as well as the moral principles for treating oneself "happiness, cherishing life," and so on. Thus, it scientifically resolves a series of major ethical dilemmas that have been debated by humans for two thousand years. It attempts to establish an objective, rigorous, and operational scientific ethics.