论乔治·艾略特晚期作品中的伦理主题

On Morality in George Eliot's Later Works

乔治·艾略特捕捉到了弥漫于19世纪英国社会的情感结构,多角度探讨了工业化浪潮下社会价值观的变迁对人类社会的精神冲击。在传统的宗教性超越秩序解体的情况下,如何找到新的现实秩序的支撑,从而摆脱道德上的相对主义和虚无主义,解决现代性道德文化危机是乔治·艾略特追问的问题。作者提倡通过扩大人类同情心和"尽义务"来增强社会凝聚力、促进个人及社会道德进步,从而实现个人与社会、个人与个人之间的和谐发展。

George Eliot paints the structure of feeling pervading the 19 th century England. George Eliot probes into the assaults on human society with the changes in values in response to the Industrial Revolution.What Eliot concerns is how to maintain the real order when the traditional religious faith fades away,so as to provide resolutions to the modernity moral crisis by fighting against the moral relativism and nihilism. Eliot advocates the promotion of both personal and social morality by means of the extension of sympathy and the fulfillment of duty,so as to develop a high degree of rapport between individual and society