The Mechanism of Rewards and Punishment in Ethical Coordination
As the study of the balance of interest,ethics always needs some means of rewards and punishment to attain its goal.Only in this way,can we avoid"ethical slackness"in our society.Functionally speaking,social rewards and punishment mean that society uses all kinds of realistic interests as rewards and punishment for the behavior of individuals or groups.By economic,political,legal,administrative and even religious means,we take interests as an intermediary to promote the subjects(individuals or groups)to choose the behaviors expected or accepted by society,so as to achieve the purpose of most effectively and directly influencing an individual's moral appearance and social ethical conditions.The possibility of balancing ethical coordination through the mechanism of rewards and punishment lies in the following potential factors of human nature:Humans always tend to pursue gain and avoid harm,human rights and obligations are always reciprocal,and humans are always fond of being praised and afraid of being punished.At the same time,the failure to properly control the degree of rewards and punishment is prone to cause the effect of imposing one's morality on someone else,which may also lead to disorder and chaos in ethical life.Therefore,when ethical rewards and punishment become the necessary means of ethical coordination,we need to consider the scope or space of its adaptation.And we should pay attention to the three states of ethical life,namely,"inappropriate","appropriate"and"obligated",and treat them respectively.
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