Ethical Dictionary

Author: Zhu Yiting
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: This dictionary, originally intended as a toolbook of ethics, aims to provide readers with accurate knowledge about the fundamentals, basic concepts, key figures, and schools of thought in the discipline. However, this ethics dictionary goes beyond being just a dictionary. It is also a comprehensive encyclopedia of ethics and a high-level academic work on the subject. "The Great Dictionary of Ethics" is the largest, most comprehensive, and most up-to-date single-volume specialized dictionary of ethics in China to date, containing over 4,500 entries and 2.6 million words. With Luo Guojie as consultant and Zhu Yiting as chief editor, it was compiled by over 100 experts and scholars from more than ten provinces and cities. It prominently reflects the series of important discussions and theoretical ideas by Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin on socialist spiritual civilization and socialist moral construction, with a focused introduction on the research outcomes of China's moral system and applied ethics in recent years. The compilation of "The Great Dictionary of Ethics" is guided by Deng Xiaoping Theory and Jiang Zemin's "Three Represents" important thought, emphasizing the series of significant discussions and theoretical ideas by Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin on socialist spiritual civilization and socialist moral construction. It comprehensively presents terminology, theories, schools, figures, works, journals, organizations, events, and conferences in ethics principles, applied ethics, Chinese ethical thought, foreign ethical thought, and religious ethics, with a particular focus on the research achievements of applied ethics. Additionally, it includes appendices such as "Major Events in the History of Chinese and Foreign Ethical Thought" and "A General Overview of Ethics Works Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China."