Ethical Methods

Author: Wang Haoming
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: The first volume of this book studies the unconventional methods of ethics: 1. Axiomatic method; 2. The construction method from abstract to concrete among the various categories of the axiomatic system of ethics; 3. The method of deducing from definition to structure, types, basic properties, and laws for each category; 4. The inductive and deductive proof methods for each proposition, as well as the methods of verification through observation and experimentation. The second volume studies the special methods of ethics, which are essentially the axioms and postulates of ethics, and can be summarized as the method of deriving excellent morality: How a behavior should be morally excellent can only be derived and formulated from the objective nature of how a behavior is, through the moral ultimate purpose, i.e., the moral ultimate standard. Therefore, ethics can be a science as objective, inevitable, rigorous, and operational as geometry and physics.