Dialogue Ethics And The Ethics Of Dialogue - The Theory Of Contemporary Religious Dialogue Philosophical Reflection

This paper will analyze the principal elements of ethical orientation in religious dialogue, which based on explaining the contents and characters of pattern of religious dialogue in traditional theories. And it will clarify the necessary, possibility and perpetual openness of dialogue in illustration of Hans Kung's global ethic.The chapter one will summarize the four main patterns of religious dialogue in present and comment on their structures, paths of reasoning. And it will divide religion and religious dialogue into the level of faith and culture through the enlightenment which bring from the structural reflections on these patterns, especially on pluralism, and show that there is a way out of religious value tension on the level of culture.The chapter two will emphatically discuss the ethical orientation on the level of religious culture, and point out that ethical dialogue between religions is the core content of religious dialogue. It will separately explain the key words which is why religious dialogue can be possible from the several important points in ethic including languages as basic element, identity of true and good on the existence, discarding prejudices against each other, tolerance as the bottom line of institution.The chapter three will show that global ethic as a breakthrough of religious dialogue on the ethical orientation is a way to find out a next possible consensus in the basic common view of value. And it will analyze the theoretical characters and significances of global ethic, following the developmental clues of Hans Kung's Christian thought. We believe that global ethic is the effective beginning to stride over the gulf and hedge between religions. Ethic of love is the foundation of this theory.The chapter four will develop the possibility and openness of ethical dialogue between religions. Critical thinking, ethic of communication as a normal condition are the premises to further resolve religious conflicts. The direction to religious dialogue is in the real harmony, and is to accommodate divergent views in the process of ethical reconciliation.