麦金泰尔美德伦理思想及其对当代伦理道德建设的启迪

Macintyre's Thoughts on Virtue and Ethics: the Enlightenment on the Construction of Current Ethics and Morality

麦金泰尔是当代西方享有盛誉的伦理学家,他的美德伦理思想对当今道德哲学的发展有很深的影响。面对元伦理学的衰退和规范伦理学发展的困境,为应对西方社会日益严峻的道德危机,麦金泰尔希望用美德伦理化解道德冲突,拯救西方社会。麦金泰尔认为,共同体主义是美德伦理的现实条件,主张继承亚里士多德以来的美德伦理思想,培养社会大众的道德价值观,抵抗现代社会的负能量,促进社会道德进步。麦金泰尔的美德伦理思想是基于社会现实的实践反思,对我国加强市场经济条件下的社会道德建设具有宝贵的启迪意义。

Nowadays, Maeintyre is a famous ethicist in western world, and his thoughts on virtue and ethical are of deep influence on the development of moral philosophy. Faced with the decline of meta-ethies and the dilemma of normative ethics, Maeintyre, in order to deal with increasingly serious moral crises in western society, hopes to solve moral conflicts with virtue and ethics and save western society. According to Maeintyre, the doctrine of communitarian is the practical condition for virtue and ethics. He argues the people inherit Aristotle＇s thoughts on virtue and ethics, develop public value on morality, and resist negative energy in modern society, so as to promote moral develop of the society. Maeintyre＇s thought on virtue and ethics are the practical considerations based on social reality, which is of precious enlightenment on us to strengthen moral construction in market economy.