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The Level Of Good On Perspective Of Egoism And Altruism

Posted on:2013-09-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M DengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330380974484Subject:Ethics
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The concept of good is diverse, generally speaking, the meaning of “good”corresponds to the “should”, Professor Wang Haiming seen the behavior of good as thismeaning. But in the ethical category, good is related to interests, which has the meaningof interests, refers to benefit people, especially others and society. There is no doubt, theethical behavior of conducing to others and the society which is encouraged by people.However, in real life, if we regard the moral value of altruistic behavior as higher thanself-serving behavior unconditionally, and not to provide the theoretical basis for thiskind of moral behavior, then the legitimacy of this moral behavior is being questioned.Egoism and altruism are two forms of good, on the one hand, it exist conflict, and on theother hand it is unified, at the different times, different social environment, differentsituation its having different requirements. The altruistic moral value preset aboveself-interest, is absolute one-sided.From the perspective of altruism and egoism,this article is divided good into eighttypes, namely, pure altruism, harm oneself to benefit others, altruism but not egoistic,altruistic but not egoistic and pure egoism, egoism but not harm others,, egoism but notbenefit others, as well as the unity of egoism and altruism. The eight ethical behaviorscan be divided into three types: firstly, regard" I" as the benefit of direction, includingegoism but not benefit others and pure egoism. Secondly, regard" he" as the benefit ofthe direction, including harm oneself to benefit others, altruism but not egoistic, purealtruism. Finally, we consider the altruism and egoistic together, then the unity ofegoism but not harm others, altruism but not harm oneself his as a type. We willcompare those three kinds of good successively, and each type of the highest level ofgood for comparison, then the last one will be the highest goodIn view of altruism and egoism, the existence each kind of types of good has itsroots of economy and human nature,. Division of good level has the vital significance, itcan be avoided that people not know what course to take in front of the moral choiceand also can avoided moral degeneration phenomenon happened due to the high ethicalstandards., at the same time, it adapt to the development of economy in our country,And also provides moral support.. Finally the author from the economic, political andcultural aspects to explores how to achieve the highest level of good.
Keywords/Search Tags:Egoism, Altruism, Good, Level
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