Ethics

Author: Zhou Zhongzhi
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: This book has been included in the national teaching material planning project for higher education under the "15th Five-Year Plan." The textbook has a strong sense of reality and high learning content, reflecting well the new characteristics of ethics research and teaching in China. Compared to existing textbooks, this one has distinct features. First, it enriches and strengthens the exposition of ethical theory issues related to the socialist market economy. Compared to some previously published domestic textbooks, this one offers new insights in the elaboration of a moral normative system adapted to the socialist market economy. Second, its discussions on moral practice and moral education, especially in chapters on ideals and realization, happiness and morality, and social morality, are more substantial and in-depth compared to similar textbooks. Third, the content on applied ethics in the textbook reflects the dynamic developments at the forefront of ethical research. The rise of applied ethics is a new trend in the development of international ethics, broadening the theoretical horizons of ethics and enriching the teaching content. The authors of the chapters on economic ethics and educational ethics have led relevant national social science projects and incorporated their independent research findings, enhancing the theoretical level and academic quality of the entire textbook.
Overall, the textbook explores new approaches to the teaching system and framework of ethics, makes significant contributions to the improvement and perfection of the socialist moral normative system, and offers in-depth and insightful expositions of the principles and tenets of ethics. The book has a rigorous structure, clear logic, fluent writing, strong readability, and inspirational value, with a considerable theoretical level and practical relevance. This book has been included in the national teaching material planning project for higher education under the "15th Five-Year Plan." The textbook has a strong sense of reality and high learning content, reflecting well the new characteristics of ethics research and teaching in China. Compared to existing textbooks, this one has distinct features. First, it enriches and strengthens the exposition of ethical theory issues related to the socialist market economy. Compared to some previously published domestic textbooks, this one offers new insights in the elaboration of a moral normative system adapted to the socialist market economy. Second, its discussions on moral practice and moral education, especially in chapters on ideals and realization, happiness and morality, and social morality, are more substantial and in-depth compared to similar textbooks. Third, the content on applied ethics in the textbook reflects the dynamic developments at the forefront of ethical research. The rise of applied ethics is a new trend in the development of international ethics, broadening the theoretical horizons of ethics and enriching the teaching content. The authors of the chapters on economic ethics and educational ethics have led relevant national social science projects and incorporated their independent research findings, enhancing the theoretical level and academic quality of the entire textbook.
Overall, the textbook explores new approaches to the teaching system and framework of ethics, makes significant contributions to the improvement and perfection of the socialist moral normative system, and offers in-depth and insightful expositions of the principles and tenets of ethics. The book has a rigorous structure, clear logic, fluent writing, strong readability, and inspirational value, with a considerable theoretical level and practical relevance.