评“社会规范说”的道德界定

On the Contradiction of Social Norm Theory's Definition of Morality

我国多年来通行的"社会规范说"道德定义没有准确简明地揭示出道德的本质属性,而是将道德定位在道德现象上,将道德的一些现象和非本质属性当作本质属性,致使这种道德界定矛盾重重。导致这种偏颇的社会历史性因素主要是:受前苏联伦理学研究的影响、受原经济体制的制约、受人类有限理性的局限。应该说,道德是一种实践精神,是人通过自主自觉行为对人对己的利害性而得到显现和确证的一种品性,这个道德新界定可称之为"主体品性说"。

For years, the Social Norm Theory has failed to give a brief and clear definition of morality that reveals its essential properties. Instead, it, based on moral phenomena, mistook some phenomena and non-essential properties of morality as the essential properties, thus leading to the contradictions in its definition. The main social and historical factors resulting in this deflection were: the influence of the former Soviet Union ethnic research and the restriction of China's past economic system as well as the limited rationality of mankind. Morality is a practical spirit and a kind of character revealed and testified by man's willing behavior on interest of itself and others. And this new definition of morality can be called as the 'Subject Character Theory'.