美德伦理及其在当代的复兴

在西方，美德伦理指的是亚里士多德的以人为中心的伦理学说，在中国则指的是儒家所推崇的心性之学。启蒙运动形成的个人主义已日渐弥漫开来，形形色色的具体的个人主义观念导致了道德价值多元化，情感主义造成了当今道德语言的危机，规范伦理学局限性的日益凸显，美德伦理学逐渐被人们所关注。美德伦理学的复兴将会缓解当今时代的道德危机，关键在于找到传承美德伦理的共同体，发扬模范人物的带头作用，并借助于法律的规约，才能复兴美德伦理。

Virtue Ethics and its Revival in Contemporary Era

It is widely believed that virtue ethics refers to the Aristotle’s ethics which is the theory of People-centered in the western world,while it refers to the philosophy of mind and Nature advocated by Confucianism in China.The individualism resulting from the Enlightenment has spread out,different kinds of specific ideas of individualism have brought about the diversity of moral values,and emotionalism has caused the contemporary crisis of moral language.Due to the limitation of the normative ethics,virtue ethics has gradually attracted people’s attention.The revival of virtue ethics will alleviate the contemporary moral crisis,the key lies in finding out the community of transmitting the virtue ethics.Only by promoting the leading role of role models,and by means of regulation and restraint of laws,can we revive the virtue ethics.