The role of beliefs and values in the evolution of planetary consciousness

Science has yet to realize some of the profound differences in thinking that are entailed in modern physics. Among these include differences in our beliefs about relationships. The ideas of a discrete planetary consciousness come to the fore as we see how living and non‐living systems operate. Planetary values such as non‐violence are discussed. After this, there is an introduction to the quantum and quantum electromagnetic relations that exist among the brain and the earth.     

行政秩序与公正目标追求中的伦理之思

伦理秩序与社会公正作为行政伦理的基本问题与追求的目标,是贯穿于行政伦理体系的重要范畴,但二者又存在着矛盾的关系,行政主体重视秩序,行政客体关注公正,而一个社会良好秩序的实现,总需要社会公正作为它的基础与支撑,这意味着政府只依靠强制性的法律秩序供给是不够的,它还必须提供具有正义的道德秩序供给,如果自身行为不正义又不能制止社会不正义,就会形成正义的脆弱性局面,从而导致政府统治的合法性危机。     

医疗腐败与医院管理伦理

医疗市场经济的利益导向在医疗领域的扭曲体现,产生了医院管理伦理失范,医疗腐败更是对医院管理伦理产生极大的腐蚀作用。因此,反对医疗腐败,倡导文明行医,需要正本清源,从医院管理道德建设的源头抓起,注重医院管理道德人格的完整性;需要对医疗市场经济中的医院管理伦理建设进行方法论的思考,真正做到既要面对市场,又要超越市场。     

基因治疗伦理困境的反思

基因治疗技术作为人类在生命科学领域取得的重大突破,给社会的伦理道德带来了巨大的冲击。通过对这些伦理困境成因的分析和反思,指出有些伦理困境从严格意义上说并不是真正的困境,这些困境会随着基因科技的发展和我们对基因科技的合理应用而解决。     

曾国藩家庭伦理思想探微

曾国藩家庭伦理思想内容丰富,他将孝悌视为立家之本,勤俭视为持家之道,教化视为兴家之策,睦邻视为和家之辅。毫无疑问曾国藩的家庭伦理思想是属于传统的,其中包括许多需要批判剔除的糟粕,当然也含有许多可资借鉴利用的合理因素。     

A Kenotic Struggle for Dignity

Although Booker T. Washington stands outside the theological canon, his writings offer a pragmatic theology that connects the desire for dignity to a kenotic Christology through an ethic of unceasing work. While Washington's project to improve the lives of African Americans in the Jim Crow–era South was severely compromised by political circumstances, problems within his theology of work made his project especially susceptible to those circumstances. The tragedy of Washington's theology stems from his making dignity contingent upon work being recognized as useful by a worker's community. His kenotic ideal of “Christlike” work can actually degrade workers, if their community refuses to recognize their work's merit. Workers’ anxiety about dignity causes them to pour themselves into their work, but a racist society sees African American workers as inherently undignified. Even without Jim Crow's pervasive violence, the postindustrial reappearance of economic doctrines that characterized Washington's era makes his theological ethic relevant again.     

An artful contribution to our planetary concerns

Adam Pryor's fresh understanding of the imago Dei as a refraction of the Divine is much needed in an age of science and climate change. Well informed by astrobiological insights, his approach presents what I would call a deep reconceptualization of the imago Dei as a planetary phenomenon. The human planetary phenomenon, however, currently faces its own limitations. This is an ethical reality, which is touched upon by Pryor, but could have been expressed more clearly and deliberately. The review attempts to develop some of Pryor's thoughts in dialoue with Hans Jonas, and with my own thoughts on “planetary sustainability.”     

世界和谐:全球治理中国际组织的伦理诉求

世界和平与发展需要和谐的国际社会环境,世界和谐是构建性的。以世界和谐为伦理诉求的国际组织在全球治理中发挥着重要的作用,并遵循公正与共生的伦理原则。同时,在实践中正确处理有关主权、人权、国际责任、人道主义等方面的问题,才能真正实现世界和谐。     

Can Science Help Construct a New Global Ethic? The Development and Implications of Moral Transformation Theory

This paper reports the results of a ten-year search for consensus among scientific findings on the nature of the origin and development of moral sensitivity and morality. Significant agreement on six underlying factors was found. Based on these foundations, a new theory of moral transformation and a scientific "global ethic" relating to the global ethic of Hans Kung and the Parliament of the World's Religions is proposed. Fields surveyed include psychology, sociology, political science, economics, history, and gender and feminist studies in social science; physics and biology in natural science; and brain research, archaeology, and both old and new evolutionary studies and theory, including chaos, self-organizing, and other nonlinear theories, in systems science.