西方消费伦理研究评述

A review of consumption ethics in the West

西方消费伦理的产生是消费社会转型和消费主义文化全球肆虐的必然结果,也是可持续消费的内在诉求。它通过消费者伦理、伦理消费、消费伦理学三条路径,从环境保护、理论体系构建、消费主义的伦理批判等方面对现代消费生活进行了全方位的伦理审视。西方消费伦理研究虽在批判消费主义文化、探讨可持续消费的伦理资源等方面取得了颇为丰硕的理论成果,但在理论和实践上还存在一些问题尚需解决。厘清这些问题,为消费伦理学向纵深层次拓展提供了参考。

Consumption ethics is the product of the transformation of consumption society and the prevalence of consumptionism around the globe as well as an outcome of sustained consumption. It examines ethically the modern consumption in respects of environmental protection,construction of theoretical system and ethical criticism of consumptionism from perspectives of consumer ethics,ethical consumption and and ethics of consumption. In spite of the achievements it has made,some problems remain unsolved. To address ourselves to those problems can facilitate the development of this academic areas.