论现代性社会的伦理精神

On the Ethic Spirit in Modernity Society

在现代性社会发展的同时却带来了前所未有的道德危机。为解决这一危机,人们需分两个层面建立起新的伦理精神。首先,在社会层面上建立起以权利、民主与契约精神为内核的伦理精神,并辅之以制度的保障和底线伦理的规范;其次,在个人心性层面上以仁爱、求知与信仰精神为伦理核心,从而保证人类生存的需要和超越性的道德要求,并以此来缓解现代性社会给人带来的惟理化和同一性压力。这两个层面需相互依赖,互相促进。

The development of modernity society promoted the development of democracy, science and freedom. Meanwhile, it also brought a crisis of morality we have never seen before. In order to resolve this crisis, people must establish the new ethics in two levels. Firstly, on the social level, the new ethics should include right, democracy and contractual spirits, along with regulation guarantee and bottom line ethics. Secondly, on the individual level, the new ethics should include humanity, religion and craving for knowledge so that it can ensure the requisites for existence of human beings and surpassing moral requirements. Only by developing the modernity society with this new ethic spirit can we avoid the trend of pure rationalism and the pressure of identity. In addition,the two levels are interdependent and mutually promoted.