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Keywords:: ethics of responsibility; heuristics of fear; age of science and technology; education attempts

Abstract:: The birth and development of modern science and technology confronts the past ethics withchallenges，so people are in an urgent need of a new type of ethics. To meet this need，scholars put forward theethics of responsibility，which is a kind of integrated，long-distance and self-regulating ethics. The heuristicsof fear is one of the important methods to realize this type of ethics. The purpose of this method in education isto cultivate people’s consciousness of wholeness and future as well as the sense of moderation. To realize thispurpose，the heuristics of fear has proposed two closely linked education tasks，which are respectively guidingpeople to imagine technical action of the long-distance consequences and inspiring a kind of fear emotionsuitable for this imagined picture. However，to realize this education value of fear，we must recognize thecondition of fear in education. Firstly，the fear triggered in education should be moderate. Secondly，we cannotlet young children feel fear. Thirdly，we do not exclude other methods from education.