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Human Altruism And Moral Spread

Posted on:2009-06-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L Z MenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360242498376Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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Human being is a moral species, Human being is altruistic in the moral, altruism is a part of human nature. We do have other-regarding sentiment, cherishing our children, helping other people, saving person in the difficulty, contribute to public goods. There usually have three forms in the human altruism, (1) Kin-driven altruism (2) Reciprocal Altruism (3) Pure altruism. From kin-driven altruism to reciprocal altruism, again to pure altruism, we find a progressing course, the course indicated a continuing enlarging range of human′s moral concern. Simultaneity, human achieved moral progress during the course. As one of the species, human's qualification of survival need to be obtained from the struggle in nature world. It is no other than the altruism, mutual benefit, cooperating within human being help us succeeding in the struggle for survival, we gain the right to subsist. We also can say, human altruism is a powerful viability.According to Darwin's theory of evolution,human being evolved from other animals, while we also can find origin of moral of human being from animal′s"conscience", The human and the animal has the enormous difference in morals, but human's moral has an objective evolution process, human's moral stem from the animal"conscience".The independence course from the nature of human being is a whole systematic course, the course accompanied with socialization of human being,the start and development of civilization, the human nature evolution as well as the development of human ability and human morals concern scope's expansion, all these exist in one process, the progress of every aspect affects the whole development of the human race.The human has formed unique intrinsic synthesism in its developing process, this intrinsic synthesism contains human's wisdom, the moral, the emotion and so on all the human's intrinsic characteristic, human altruism is a part of this intrinsic synthesism, human's development is the development of human's intrinsic synthesism, and the human altruistic moral make progress along with the development course.The moral research of traditional ethics established on the foundation of anthropocentrism culture conception, the limit of this cultural conception decided that the essence of traditional ethics is an inner-species ethics, human's moral concern is difficult to surpass human's scope. Eco-ethics is a new type of ethics, it requires to surmount the anthropocentrism cultural conception, it affirms that we should expand human's moral concern to inhuman life, even to the entire natural world, this ethics decided that the eco-ethics' essence is the inter-species ethics, what it discussion is the ethics relations between human being and other species. Developed from the traditional ethics established on anthropocentrism culture conception to the eco-ethics established on non-anthropocentrism culture conception, we find a huge jump of the level of human moral, the scope of human moral concern obtained a substantive expansion, human's other life partner also entered in the scope of human's moral concern.The expansion of human morals is an objective process, it has a close relation with human's practical ability. From an ordinary species of the nature to an independent, formidable, dominant species on the Earth, human's development is following not only with the wisdom development, but more important is the moral development. The progress of human civilization manifests not only in the utensil civilization, the moral civilization is also an essential standard. When human's ability can control the entire earth space, human's moral also should make progress together with it, and expanded its scope to the entire earth space.
Keywords/Search Tags:Altruism, the Moral Spread, Environmental Ethics
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