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Tension between Moral Knowledge and Behavior: Its Objectivity and Adjustment(PDF)

《南京师大学报》(社会科学版)[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]

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2014年03期
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5-12
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Title:
Tension between Moral Knowledge and Behavior: Its Objectivity and Adjustment
Author(s):
HUANG Ming-li WANG Li-jun
Keywords:
morality of citizens agreement between knowledge and behavior conflict between knowledge and behavior moral criticism
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Abstract:
The consensus that the civil morality is in severe crisis in our country is reached mainly on the basis of the widespread phenomenon that the moral knowledge of our citizens is inconsistent or even in conflict with their behaviors. However, this viewpoint is unreasonable in that it is based on a one-sided, superficial and simplistic cognition of the status of citizens’ moral life in our country, which is non-historical in nature. In fact, the main cause for the highly intense contradiction between moral knowledge and behavior is the moral polarization intentionally created in our daily lives. Owing to the fact that the idealism and ambiguity embedded in morality itself determines the long-standing tension between knowledge and practice, the conflict between them is objective and inevitable. In other words, the agreement between knowledge and practice is actually relative. Consequently, the development of citizens’ morality shows such a process: from being innocent to knowing; from knowledge to the accidental practice; and at last from the accidental practice to the inevitable behavior. However, the moderate tension between moral knowledge and practice can stimulate the development and progress of morality, and rational moral criticism can play a positive role in relieving the pressure from the tension between moral knowledge and behavior.

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Last Update: 2014-05-26