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Ethical Glory of Youth——The Enlightenment Li Chunhua Gave Us 2006(6): 1-6.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1231KB) ( )   The heroic deeds that Li ChunHua, 2003 grades of students of institute of history and culture of Hunan normal university ,sacrificing himself for life-saving are causing the strong response in the whole country. What a kind of spirit does embody on earth on one's body such as Li? Therefore how should we appraise the style and features of whole morals of the Chinese university students after 80? What enlightenment does Li ChunHua's deeds make to us to strengthen university student's ideological and political education and building citizen's morals? How the traditional virtue of Chinese nation use passing on and development on contemporary university student? To solve these questions, we selected these manuscript hoping be regarded as a modest spur to induce others to come forward with valuable contributions of their own thinking and discuss.

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Outline of SUN Zhong-Shan's Ethical Thoughts——To Commemorate the 140th Anniversary of SUN Zhong-shan's Birth TANG Kai-lin 2006(6): 7-13.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1238KB) ( )   Sun Zhong-shan's ethical thoughts has formed in the struggle of Chinese people rebelling against imperialism and feudalism in the modern times, Its formation marked maturity of ethical thoughts of national bourgeois of China. His theory of moral origin and moral essence based on the view of history of the Principle of the People's Livelihood, his moral view is magnifying liberty, equality and fraternity, his outlook on life is striving for a doctrine; These all include many reasonable positive and valuable contents, and are worth carrying on.

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On Sun Zhong-shan Democratic Service Morality SONG Hui-chang 2006(6): 14-18.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1202KB) ( )   A democratic ethics characterized with "service morality" was established by Sun Zhong-shan on the political foundation of his Three Principles of the People. It comprises three important parts: to replace the hierarchy of privilege with democratic equality, to practice humanism and respect people's dignity, to uproot the ideology of emperor command and cultivate that of public service, and they respectively formed the premise, the basic requirements, and the means of Sun Zhong-shan service morality. Sun's service philosophy is still instructive in spite of its historical deficiency.

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An Ethical Difference in the Revolutionists of 1911 Revolution and the Historical Fate of Traditional Morality JIA Xin-qi 2006(6): 19-23.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1211KB) ( )   In the period around 1911 Revolution, the Revolutionists, who had the same political stand, diverged on the subject about how to treat the traditional Chinese morality. Generally, there were two typical opinions, i.e. some revolutionaries basically approved the traditional morality, but the others held a contrary view. These two opinions have their respective merit and defect, because each of them grasped one essential factor of the traditional morality that in fact is a plural complex, and revealed one aspect of the relations between the complex and the modern society. The reflection on this ethical difference in the Revolutionists can help us to better understand the value and fate of the traditional morality.

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On Several Questions of the Target and the Range of Engineering Ethics LI Bo-cong 2006(6): 24-30.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1239KB) ( )   Engineering is a kind of independent social activities that is the realistic foundation that engineering ethics exists and prerequisite of studying it as a kind of discipline. Because of the wide and narrow of understanding of the property, target and range of engineering, there are two way of understanding of its reservation and the developing direction of discipline in project ethics. The Chinese scholar who carrying on the ethics research of the engineering, not only must pay attention to engineering ethics of the narrow sense, but also should pay more attention to engineering ethics of broad sense. While studying and analyzing engineering ethics, we must combine analysis of ethics with other analysis of latitudes together, not only should pay attention to the mutual infiltration between different latitude but also should pay attention to the contradiction, conflict,arrangement in an order and coordination between different latitude .

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Two Approaches to the Study of Engineering Ethics LI Shi-xin 2006(6): 31-35.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1212KB) ( )   As there are various views about ethics, there are various views about engineering ethics. This paper sugguests that first of all, ethical quality of engineering should be recognized. It analyses the inherent values of engineering and outlines two approches to the study of engineering ethics.

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The Ethical Responsibility of Engineering Activities ZHU Bao-wei 2006(6): 36-41.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1223KB) ( )   The prominent theme in engineering ethics is the responsibility committed voluntarily for human health, security and commonweal. The responsibility of engineering ethics is growing along with multiplication of impacts of science and technology on the society. Being more powerful in science and technology, their rapidly development and the underdetermination of their effects, put us in a disastrous risk which is the fundamental reason why we should have the ethics of responsibility. There are many levels in ethical responsibility for engineering. Basically an engineering is a process involved with groups and even all the people in the society. This asks the ethics should establish on a new basis.

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Studies in Conflict of Interest in Engineering Cong Hangqing, Pan Lei 2006(6): 42-46.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1207KB) ( )   On the basis of the analysis of existed definitions of conflict of interest, this paper firstly suggests a new definition of it on a different perspective. Secondly, this paper analyzes the issue of structure, and then lists various types of conflict of interest. After analyzing the ethical problem of it, this paper thirdly brings in some solutions. Finally, this paper discusses the code of ethics of major engineering society as well as the code of conduct of large corporations concerning the issue of conflict of interest.

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On the Basic Theoretical Questions in Moral Assessment ZOU shun-kang 2006(6): 47-51.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1201KB) ( )   Moral assessment is the moral action by which people, through social opinions and their inner beliefs, assess others' or their own thoughts and behaviors in the point of view of value of good and evil according to certain social moral values. Social opinions formed from moral assessment act directly on behavioral subjects' thoughts and behaviors and exert profound influence on the subjects' moral behaviors. In order to make scientific and objective moral assessment on people's action, some basic theoretic questions must be clarified: first, the standards of moral assessment; second, the bases of moral assessment; third, the weight of moral assessment; fourth, the methods of moral assessment.

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From “ the Moral Act”to “the Hypo-Moral Act ”——the Forfeiture of the Ideal of the Moral Standards DUAN wen-ge 2006(6): 52-54.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1173KB) ( )   The ideal and prospective of the moral standards is the meaning in which the morals exist, and it is the theoretical premise which the morals realize the function of direction ,education and criterion. Form “the moral act”to “the hypo-moral act”, the ideal and prospective of the moral standards is missing , the moral function of standard and the orientation is desalinizing day by day, the morals have already fallen out of “the moral base line”.The moral dignity is lost while becoming the economic dependency . Consequently, we must uplift the ideal flag to realize the unity of the ideal and the reality of moral standards in the moral construction.

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Institutional Arrangement of Rewards and Punishment for Establishing A Society of Honesty and Credit HAN Zhen 2006(6): 55-57.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1169KB) ( )   Honesty and credit is not only a kind of virtue but also a basic claim of being an upright person and doing work. A good society should be the society of honesty and credit that people trust each other. In order to form a culture of honesty and credit, a society should punish dishonest and discredit behaviour, and this punishment should become an institutional arrangement, honesty and credit of the government is a key sector in this arrangement.

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On the Contemporary Transition of Traditional “Chengxin” and “Yili”——Glorious to Oblige “Chengxin” and Shameful to Value Profit rather than Duty XIONG Zong-zhe 2006(6): 58-62.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1203KB) ( )   Valuing duty rather than profit is the basic value standard of traditional society. In the past, our Chinese people's view on “Yili” was changing from the fact that it was shameful to speak of profit to the one that people gradually chased profit, then to the one that some people valued profit rather than duty. Today we must change the traditional state and advocate a new kind of “yili” view that duty and profit are both important and they should develop harmoniously. “Chengxin” is not only basic rule of our national traditional morality but the necessary demand of market and legal economy. It is dual between moral and legal construction. Legal rules should be based on moral rationality and social environment. We must consider both tradition and reality, and then ensure the contemporary transition of traditional “chengxin” and “yili”.

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On the Implications of Fuda's Approach for the Issue of Professional Managers LU Xiao-he 2006(6): 63-67.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1208KB) ( )   The separation of ownership and control, which has led to the development of amanagerial economy raises “the issue of professional managers”, that is how the managers can be royal to the corporations they manage for. This is the difficult problem for the publicly-held corporations both in the West and China. Whether and how solve the issue is also at the top of the private-owned companies' agenda. Fuda, a Chinese private company in Shanghai, has been practicing an interesting try. It has created a way to select young students from universities and educate them in the company. Following ancient Chinese tradition of selecting sages as successors based on its “culture of good persons”, while taking the mechanisms of multiple incentives and restricts, and trying to establish “a new type of public and private owned joint ventures”, in order to solve the issue about faithful and responsible managers. Though the experimentation is under way at present, the author points out that, it contains valuable theoretical and practical implications for the exploration and solution of the worldwide problem.

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On Moral Responsibility of Enterprises WANG Shu-qin 2006(6): 68-71.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1188KB) ( )   This paper combs out and states clearly the intension and extension of concepts of “social responsibility of enterprises” and “moral responsibility of enterprises”, clarifies genernal level of semantic meaning of social responsibility of enterprises and moral responsibility of enterprises, expounds the value and practical significance of differentiating social responsibility of enterprises and moral responsibility of enterprises; explains the cause of making moral responsibility of enterprises to be possible, analyzes particularly general conditions realizing basic moral responsibility and positive moral responsibility of enterprises, points out that sanction of law, choice of market and playing chess of intermediate forces are necessary conditions of realizing basic moral responsibility of enterprises, the profitability of enterprises, social responsibility of team of managers especially main leaders, a mechanism of commend and award for good deeds of enterprises formed by social organizations and people, these all are additional conditions of positive moral responsibility.

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Nanoethics: Normative Analysis and Paradigmatic Transformation LI San-hu 2006(6): 72-79.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1252KB) ( )   With its heuristic power of control, nanotechnology is considered as a potential field of ethical inquiry. This requires that the normative analysis of nanoethics is from the technological assessment of artifacts and social consequences to the vision one of metaphor, imagination and language, which promote us to suggest that Drexler's nanomachine popular in public sphere is from mechanistic metaphor, leading to the deterministic destiny of one-dimension society. In contrary, the opponent Smalley makes the biomimesis metaphor as a paradigmatic transformation, providing some opportunities for man to express moral responsibility in shaping nanotechnology. So the consciousness development of ethics-oriented nanotechnology is to consider it as the context-dependent field of many disciplines, directing the objective and subjective elements involved in meaning-making towards humanism as to make constructing nanotechnology for the nourishment and support of humanity.

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Enlightenment on Contemporary Science and Technology of Theory of Learning and Cultivating Virtues of A Rationalistic Confucian Philosophy in the Song and Ming Dynasties CHEN Cui-fang 2006(6): 80-83.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1204KB) ( )   Alienation of science and technology is a significant problem faced by contemporary society, it is a top priority to remove alienation of science and technology and guarantee healthy development and reasonable application of science and technology. A Rationalistic Confucian Philosophy in the Song and Ming Dynasties emphasized that Cultivating virtues of living with respect and making consciousness to be honest is prerequisite and condition of Learning of cognition and seeking for truth, proposed Learning and Cultivating Virtues integrate and advance side by side, today this has important enlightenment for intensifying ethical value of activities of science and technology and promoting moral responsibility of subjects of science and technology, and then eliminating alienation of science and technology.

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Mozi's Ideal of Double Love and Constitution of Harmony of the World JIANG Chang 2006(6): 84-87.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1184KB) ( )   Although the ideal put by Mozi that all people should love each other in the world didn't realize, But it is still a target pursued by human. Today is times of global integration and modernization, in the face of individualism and national egoism being in vogue or the doctrine that a country is above all, in the face of cruel world that is drown out by relations of interests, in the face of various crimes, terror activities and local wars, it has become a significant and urgent task for contemporary human and every country in the world to build a restrict mechanism of making the stronger not to oppress the weaker, the crowd not to oppress the few, rich people not bully poor people, the swindlers not to cheat the fools, and constitute dynamic harmony of the world under Mozi's flag of ideal of double love. This paper tries to explain the significance of Mozi's thoughts of double love for constituting contemporary harmony of the world.

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On Moral Pedigree of The Book of Changes HUANG Zheng-quan 2006(6): 88-95.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1251KB) ( )   The Book of Changes is a work of human studies and also a work of morality. It has constituted a special pedigree of morality. The moral pedigree is formed of four levels of instinctive unconsciousness, cultural unconsciousness, social consciousness and self-consciousness. A moral pedigree of the Book of Changes links man with Dao and then there is the Dao of man; it links Dao with Virtue, and then there is Dao and De. The Book of Changes probed into a formation and evolution of man and contents of human nature on the basis of Li of Nature and Life, and constituted a moral pedigree of becoming man and being man on the basis of Man and Dao. The moral pedigree of the Book of Changes links Man and Dao and it is human studies, it links Dao and Virtue and is ethics. Dao of Heaven and Dao of Man and so on are united in the proposition of Li of Nature and Life, and they became an unique contents of moral pedigree and then Man became the noumenon of moral pedigree.

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On ZENG Guo-Fan's View of Making Good-Neighborly Relations ZHOU Jun-wu 2006(6): 96-99.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1188KB) ( )   A view of making good-neighborly relations is an important aspect in the Chinese traditional thoughts of ethics of family. As a great Confucianist at the late Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guo-fan was deeply contaminated by Chinese traditional culture. The view of making good-neighborly relations is one of important contents in Zeng Guo-fan's rich ethical thoughts of family, perhaps contemporary people may acquire some useful enlightenment from them.

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The Traditional Female Ethics and Ceremony Propriety and its Modern Value FU Hong-mei 2006(6): 100-103.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1189KB) ( )   Traditional female ethics and ceremony and propriety contents numerous and jumble. The dross and the essence are in it both. Developments of modern female ethics and ceremony and propriety should to discard the inhumane dross among them what supported the male privilege and tie the female personal freedom, inherit the essence of its modern value. Then establish the new system of modern female ethics and ceremony and propriety with humanity, civilization and science.