Awe is the respect and fear of the higher existence of the emotions,prevalent in the human spiritual life,especially in religion,ethics and aesthetic life.From ancient times to the present,ethics is inseparable from fear,lack of moral authority or ethical principles of fear,ethics will lose the effectiveness of reality.Obviously,many of the world’s moral anomie problems,and ethics are disgusted to cause people to lack awe.As a representative of the Enlightenment,Kant on the one hand to see the traditional religious and ethical authority has its irrational place,the need for rational enlightenment;the other hand,see the fear of authority is essential,the lack of awe of authority,Religious ethics will no longer be possible.In the face of such contradictions,Kant’s approach is to criticize traditional religion and ethics with reason,and to establish ethics on the formal rules of rational self-recognition.It is considered that the ethical rules as universal forms are the supreme fear of reverence situation.Kant’s frightening of formal rules is very pure,but it is also obvious that the form of the norm is not often effective,the lack of form of life content rules,often seem empty and invalid.It is to see the Kantian ethical form of the problem,the Nobel laureate,the famous ethicist Albert Schweitze back to the foundation of the fear of faith,starting from the Christian faith to rethink the awe,raised his ethical principles of life,he used Life enriches the pure form of Kantian ethics,so that the theory of reverence for the emotional experience of life,is the pure form of Kant’s moral complement,perfect and beyond.This article summarizes the basis of the fear of emotion,analyzes the background,inner logic and existing problems of Kant ’s ethics,compares his formal rule and Albert Schweitze’s life law,and expounds the inner relationship between the two thoughts. |