New Ethics

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 behavior 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 dedicated efforts over sixteen years. It integrates three sciences—meta-ethics, normative ethics, and virtue ethics—which have long been independent or even mutually contradictory—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 behavior should be must align with the objective nature of how behavior is, it reveals sixteen types, six categories, and four laws of how behavior is on one hand, and derives from it the general moral principle of "goodness," the moral principle of treating others well—"justice, humanity, freedom," and the moral principle of treating oneself well—"happiness, cherishing life"—and so on on the other hand. 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.