From Normative Ethics to Situational Morality: A Shift in Moral Practice from a Comparative Perspective of China and the West

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10.2991/978-2-38476-444-0_50How to use a DOI?

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Normative Ethics; Situationism; Situational morality

Abstract

With the accelerated evolution of globalization and social diversification, the contemporary mainstream ethics - normative ethics - is being challenged by contextualism. Critical opinions point out that the abstract principles of normative ethics appear rigid and lack sufficient guiding force when facing the complex and changeable real-life situations. Contextualist morality emphasizes the contextual dependence and flexibility of moral judgments, but it may also fall into the trap of relativism. How to balance the stability of normative ethics and the dynamics of situational practice is a new approach and new direction for future research on ethics and morality.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Bin Wu
AU  - Yan Zhang
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/07/10
TI  - From Normative Ethics to Situational Morality: A Shift in Moral Practice from a Comparative Perspective of China and the West
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language and Cultural Communication (ICLCC 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 434
EP  - 439
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-444-0_50
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-444-0_50
ID  - Wu2025
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