A Critique of Pan-Moralization：Putting Morality in Its Right Place(PDF)
《南京师大学报》（社会科学版）[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]
- Issue:
- 2018年02期
- Page:
- 24-
- Research Field:
- 传统文化创新性发展研究专题
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- Title:
- A Critique of Pan-Moralization：Putting Morality in Its Right Place
- Author(s):
- FENG Qian
- Keywords:
- pan-moralistic criticism; limits of morality; abuse of morality; restoration of morality; moralorder
- PACS:
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- Abstract:
- In contemporary China，with the social transformation accelerated，the interpersonal relationshave been greatly expanded. In particular，the gradual popularization of the Internet and the rapid developmentin the Internet technology and self-media has brought about tremendous changes in the content and form ofinterpersonal interactions. Accordingly，the openness，interactivity and heterogeneity of people’s social lifehave been greatly enhanced and there is an explosion of the influence of virtual society formed in the cyberspaceon the public sphere. The area which is the first to have surely felt the impact of these changes is morality. Itis a common and basic desire for the people in a community to live a moral life so that moral judgments forman important force promoting the social development. Moral criticism is usually the prelude to other criticismsand at the same time becomes the driving force for the pursuit of a purified moral life. However，if the moraljudgment goes to the extreme of pan-moralization，many issues outside the sphere of morality will be moralizedand the abuse of morality will be inevitable. Therefore，the key to the construction of morality in the new erais to first define the boundaries of morality，i.e. to make an explicit definition of the sphere for people’s moralpractice. To achieve this purpose，it is necessary to stick to the scientific Marxist concept of moral criticism，make moral criticism scientific and based on the facts，enable the moral criticism to fully play its guiding role，and seek the establishment of the common interest mechanism in a society characterized by different interestsand pursuits so as to lay a solid foundation for the reestablishment of moral order.
Last Update: 2018-03-25