伦理规范作为制度性事实:一种本体论研究

Ethical Norms as Institutional Facts: An Ontological Account

"伦理规范是什么?"这一问题,是关于伦理规范的基础及其他问题研究的逻辑起点。伦理规范作为制度性事实的论证,以伦理规范的根本性特征和塞尔的制度性事实理论为基础,并与人类作为意向性地具有意识和自我理解的生物而存在的特征相关。伦理规范作为制度性事实的本体论研究,对于伦理学理论中描述与规定、是与应该之间的关系问题,以及为全球化时代伦理规范基础性问题的理解和研究,提供了一种富有启发性的方法论视角。

The question ＂what is ethical norm？＂ is the proper starting point for all research concerning the foundation of ethical norms and other ethical problems. Seeing ethical norms as institutional facts is a perspective that is based on Searle＇s institutional facts theory and accords with the fundamental nature of ethical norms. It is bound up with the fact that the human species is possessed of intentional consciousness and self-interpretation. Studying ethical norms as institutional facts from an ontology point of view provides a new methodology for dealing with some basic theses in ethical theories, such as the relationship between description and prescription, is and ought, and for understanding and researching about foundational problems respecting ethical norms in this age of globalization.