New Ethics (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; whereas good morality can only be derived and established from behavioral facts through the purpose of creating morality, i.e., the ultimate standard of morality. The superiority or inferiority of the moral norms established for how behaviors should be depends on the truth or falsehood of the objective nature of behavioral facts and the understanding of moral purposes. This book is the result of the author's sixteen years of dedicated writing. It integrates three previously independent and even mutually contradictory sciences—meta-ethics, normative ethics, and virtue ethics—into a unified science by confirming the relationship between "how things should be" and "how things are." Starting from the premise that the good morality of how behaviors should be must conform to the objective nature of how behaviors are, it reveals on one hand the sixteen types, six categories, and four laws of how behaviors are. On the other hand, it derives from this the moral general principle "goodness" and the moral principles for treating others kindly, such as "justice, humanity, and freedom," as well as the moral principles for treating oneself kindly, such as "happiness and cherishing life." Thus, it scientifically analyzes a series of major ethical dilemmas that have been debated by humanity for two thousand years. It attempts to establish an objective, rigorous, and operational scientific ethics.