Are Moral Judgments About the Past a Necessity or Unethical? Reflections on the Meaning of Universalistic and Relativistic Ethical Positions

IF 0.7 Q4 SOCIAL WORK

Ethics and Social Welfare Pub Date : 2021-08-19 DOI:10.1080/17496535.2021.1966486

Heidrun Wulfekühler, Angela Moré

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Ethical relations to the past demand a conscious confrontation of the past. In this sense we will examine the close connection between past events and moral concepts and their influence on current moral discourses. We presume a weak moral objectivism, since strong moral objectivism fails to take account of relevant particulars of a given context, now or in the past, and since it might carry a tendency to dogmatism and rigidity. A stringent moral relativism, on the other hand, can lead to the trivialisation and denial of the violation of universal ethical values. From a philosophical standpoint, it will be argued that moral judgments about past actions are appropriate and necessary, followed by reflections on the significance of universalist and relativist positions in social science discourses and from psychoanalytic social psychology.

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对过去的道德判断是必要的还是不道德的？关于普遍性与相对性伦理立场意义的思考

与过去的伦理关系要求有意识地对抗过去。在这个意义上，我们将考察过去的事件和道德观念之间的密切联系，以及它们对当前道德话语的影响。我们认为道德客观主义较弱，因为强烈的道德客观论没有考虑到特定背景的相关细节，无论是现在还是过去，而且它可能带有教条主义和僵化的倾向。另一方面，严格的道德相对主义会导致对违反普遍伦理价值的轻视和否认。从哲学的角度来看，对过去行为的道德判断是适当和必要的，然后从社会科学话语和精神分析社会心理学的角度思考普遍主义和相对主义立场的意义。

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