Personal ethics are strongly influenced by emotions, particularly secondary emotions, because these emotions expand ethical reasoning and development as the child matures. A well-developed consciousness profoundly inf...Personal ethics are strongly influenced by emotions, particularly secondary emotions, because these emotions expand ethical reasoning and development as the child matures. A well-developed consciousness profoundly influences a person＇s actions and conduct when solving problems of what is thought, or taught to be, right or wrong Compelling neurological evidence supports the claim that children begin to develop enduring ethical standards at an early age and that these standards are largely based on the experiences of early childhood. Essentially, the innate sense of ethics requires nurturing during infancy before it can be cognitively understood and practiced in maturity. In biological terms, the development of neural networks that regulate emotional growth, and subsequently, the capacity for ethical discrimination, depends on the infant＇s early social environment. Thus, the toddler＇s early epigenetic experiences enhance, or impede, its innate still dormant genetic potential. Importantly, personal character development and ethical discrimination begins long before the child＇s formal educational years. As a consequence, early learning has to discover ways of conserving adaptive thinking which can be applied to the choices that may confront future generations. Early ethics education, including accurate access to scientific, medical, and technological knowledge, is thus critical. Future generations will increasingly require education from a global perspective when making major ethical decisions in areas, such as nuclear technology, disposal of wastes, preservation of biodiversity, global warming, and unregulated human population growth. As long as our culture continues to reflect advances in science and technology, there is an obligation to make science education overlap with crucial periods in the advancement of ethical consciousness. Significantly, when considering the human capacity for excess at times of conflict, it is incumbent on the scientific community to integrate research-based knowledge with wide-ranging learning and problem-solving skills. Bioscience ethics, the established interface bridging applied science and applied bioethics, can assist in this process of integration. To become fully responsible adults, we must share our extraordinary cognitive talents and respect life on earth in all its rich diversity. In biological terms, human uniqueness resides primarily in our brains with its products being co-operation in family and ancestral units, long education, sophisticated language and culture, and importantly, ethical consciousness-all attributes held in trust by knowledge and wisdom for future generations.展开更多
The value concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, posed and profoundly expounded by contemporary Chinese government leaders, offers an in-depth insight into the development trend of the world...The value concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, posed and profoundly expounded by contemporary Chinese government leaders, offers an in-depth insight into the development trend of the world today and a fundamental solution to various global crises. It reveals the highly interdependent relationships between people and between nations, where they share the same benefits and risks against the backdrop of globalization, informatization and network civilization, asks for the withdrawal of existing egoism that disregards others' legitimate interests and the zero-sum bias that views one's gain as another's loss, while building a harmonious world featuring harmonious co-existence, common development and lasting peace. The value concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind is highly and profoundly significant for the creative evolution of ethics, not only laying a foundation in terms of values for a healthy, just and sensible global ethic and injecting the spirit of pursuing equal and win-win cooperation into international relations, but also providing theoretical support for an inclusive human ethical civilization that consists of mutual learning and harmonious co-existence of different ideas, accentuating the guiding idea of "devote your mind to heaven and earth, devote your life to the people; succeed the wisdom of the past sages; create peace for ten thousand generations."展开更多
文摘Personal ethics are strongly influenced by emotions, particularly secondary emotions, because these emotions expand ethical reasoning and development as the child matures. A well-developed consciousness profoundly influences a person＇s actions and conduct when solving problems of what is thought, or taught to be, right or wrong Compelling neurological evidence supports the claim that children begin to develop enduring ethical standards at an early age and that these standards are largely based on the experiences of early childhood. Essentially, the innate sense of ethics requires nurturing during infancy before it can be cognitively understood and practiced in maturity. In biological terms, the development of neural networks that regulate emotional growth, and subsequently, the capacity for ethical discrimination, depends on the infant＇s early social environment. Thus, the toddler＇s early epigenetic experiences enhance, or impede, its innate still dormant genetic potential. Importantly, personal character development and ethical discrimination begins long before the child＇s formal educational years. As a consequence, early learning has to discover ways of conserving adaptive thinking which can be applied to the choices that may confront future generations. Early ethics education, including accurate access to scientific, medical, and technological knowledge, is thus critical. Future generations will increasingly require education from a global perspective when making major ethical decisions in areas, such as nuclear technology, disposal of wastes, preservation of biodiversity, global warming, and unregulated human population growth. As long as our culture continues to reflect advances in science and technology, there is an obligation to make science education overlap with crucial periods in the advancement of ethical consciousness. Significantly, when considering the human capacity for excess at times of conflict, it is incumbent on the scientific community to integrate research-based knowledge with wide-ranging learning and problem-solving skills. Bioscience ethics, the established interface bridging applied science and applied bioethics, can assist in this process of integration. To become fully responsible adults, we must share our extraordinary cognitive talents and respect life on earth in all its rich diversity. In biological terms, human uniqueness resides primarily in our brains with its products being co-operation in family and ancestral units, long education, sophisticated language and culture, and importantly, ethical consciousness-all attributes held in trust by knowledge and wisdom for future generations.
基金an outcome of the major philosophy and social science project"Studies on Major Theoretical and Practical Issues Concerning Patriotism Promotion Under New Circumstances"undertaken by the Ministry of Education(16GZD007)
文摘The value concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, posed and profoundly expounded by contemporary Chinese government leaders, offers an in-depth insight into the development trend of the world today and a fundamental solution to various global crises. It reveals the highly interdependent relationships between people and between nations, where they share the same benefits and risks against the backdrop of globalization, informatization and network civilization, asks for the withdrawal of existing egoism that disregards others' legitimate interests and the zero-sum bias that views one's gain as another's loss, while building a harmonious world featuring harmonious co-existence, common development and lasting peace. The value concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind is highly and profoundly significant for the creative evolution of ethics, not only laying a foundation in terms of values for a healthy, just and sensible global ethic and injecting the spirit of pursuing equal and win-win cooperation into international relations, but also providing theoretical support for an inclusive human ethical civilization that consists of mutual learning and harmonious co-existence of different ideas, accentuating the guiding idea of "devote your mind to heaven and earth, devote your life to the people; succeed the wisdom of the past sages; create peace for ten thousand generations."
