A Research On Ethical Responsibility In Public Events

In the perspective of ethics,the definition of public events refers to moral life,which is an event in the public realm with the influence of public morality and the attributes of ethics.In terms of form,it is public,event-like,retrospective and deconstructive.In regards of content,it presents the postmodern characteristics of pseudo-sympathy,quasi-violence,secularization and quasi-truth.Public moral events embody the public’s aspirations for good life and social justice,and reflect the emotion,rationality,spiritual outlook of public moral life.Public moral events cover the ethical dimensions of benevolence,charity,justice,rights,responsibility,cultivation,regularity,reason,desire,trust,risk,etc.The comprehensive lesions of these ethical dimensions cause such symptoms as moral indifference,moral anxiety,moral abduction and moral revelry.Public events are not only the spiritual mirror in the period of social transition,but also the measuring instrument of the spirit of The Times and the status of social ethics.Public events can be governed,and public life can be healed.This study is not a panoramic system construction,but a sliced ethical treatment.The author makes a perspective of public events from the dimension of ethical responsibility,and sets the model of ethical responsibility as the ascending sequence of sense of responsibility-view of responsibility-spirit of responsibility,which corresponds to the ethical dimensions of public emotion,public reason and public spirit.The ethical analysis of public events is carried out in the ethical responsibility model,and the possible path of public governance also follows this sequence.The full text follows the basic thought on conceptual arrangement-model construction-case classification-phenomenon analysis-ethical governance:Firstly,by comparing with the concept of kinship,the ethical significance and definition of public events are extracted.Through tracing the origin of public concepts in Chinese and Western contexts,this paper summarizes today’s public state and explains public events from the dimension of ethical responsibility.This paper summarizes the philosophy of events and puts forward the ethical direction of the research on events.Secondly,by tracing the origin of the concept of responsibility and sorting out the relationship between relevant moral discourse,a clearer and comprehensive picture of ethical responsibility is obtained,and a possible model of ethical responsibility is proposed: sense of responsibility-view of responsibility-spirit of responsibility.Thirdly,we diagnose the moral symptoms in public events: the reason of moral indifference is that the withdrawal of responsibility,which involves the moral psychological mechanism of sympathy;Moral anxiety originates from the shift of sense of responsibility and is related to the change of space-time dimension;The wrong view of responsibility gives rise to moral abduction and other ethical violence,which is the problem of rational cognition;The alienated view of responsibility is the cause of ethical anomie and moral revelry,and also the typical ethical symptom of post-modernism.Fourth,typical public events in the past seven years are selected,and embedded into the ethical framework of responsibility through the connection with responsibilities such as “ benevolence,righteousness,propriety,wisdom and faithfulness”.Fifth,the ethical governance of public events has three dimensions: the cultivation of public emotions includes the nourishment of positive emotions and the healing of negative emotions through poetic justice and moral imagination,and the ultimate goal is the cultivation of sense of responsibility;The shaping of public rationality is based on the double reflection of enlightenment rationality.It goes back to the May 4th movement and the Western enlightenment to re-understand value rationality and public rationality.The cultivation of public ethical spirit benefits from the opening up of the public life field and takes the development of public virtue as the premise,whose destination is the growth of the spirit of responsibility.