数字文化的道德伦理——评《数字化时代的后现代性》

Morality and Ethics in Digital Culture: A Review of La Postmodernité à l'heure du numérique

道德和伦理在每个时代都有其特定的内涵。传统的道德和伦理随着数字化社会大规模的再造也在悄无声息地发生变化。多元文化和网络中的部落形态正在改变着以一致性和二元对立为核心的理性观念,以往道德和伦理的界限模糊了。包容共存的理念被越来越多的人所接受,逐渐成为数字化社会具有道德含义的行为准则,而网上部落社群的兴起也随之带来不同伦理之间共处的问题,以"对立偶合"的视角看待数字化社会的矛盾现象不失为一种智慧的策略。《数字化时代的后现代性》的作者米歇尔·马菲索利和爱尔威·菲赛尔对上述社会和文化现象的分析具有借鉴意义。

Every age and generation has its own definition of morality and ethics; in the digital age their aspects are also quietly changing. As the cultural multiplicity and the online tribal effect are altering the notion of rationalism based on uniformity and dichotomization, the concept of morality and ethics are becoming vaguer. The ideas of tolerance and inclusiveness are more and more widely accepted and evolving into principles of conduct with a moral sense. The upsurge of internet tribes raised the issue of coexistence between different ethical norms, and the ＂coincidentia oppositorum＂ angle might be a wise tactic to deal with the conflicts of the digital society. Michel Maffesoli and Herve Fischer, authors of La Postmodernite a l＇heure du numerique, offer us their valuable opinions on these phenomena.