从多民族的道德生活史入手研究我国几千年文明史中伦理道德的发生演变,特别是近代以来社会道德伦理秩序的巨大变化,是我国伦理学研究方向的一个重大转变。这种研究范式把人类学、社会学的实证分析方法和伦理学的价值分析方法结合起来,从我国多民族的人的日常生活、精神生活以及公共交往生活三个层面,对多民族道德生活中的人的核心价值观念、伦理文化形态和共有精神家园的发生演变进行实证分析和价值分析,形成了一种新的理论分析框架和实证分析维度。从这种研究视域出发,对我国多民族道德生活的历史变迁的分析路径可做如下考量:我国多民族道德生活中人的道德来源问题;人的德性是如何在一个民族的道德生活中陶冶的;各民族道德生活中人的德性是在"何处养成的";各民族道德生活中人的德性呈现的空间及德性的社会建构过程;各民族道德生活中人的德性是如何传播和展现的。
It is a major turn in the orientation of the academic research on ethics and morality in China to probe into the occurrence and evolution of Chinese ethics,especially the great changes of the social ethics in modern times,from the perspective of the history of the ethics of multi-nation China.The changes of the paradigm has brought about changes in the subjects,content,topics,theoretical orientation,framework of analysis,and the research methodology,which have made the construction of the paradigm of the history of ethics in the multi-ethnic groups necessary and possible.By combining the empirical research of Anthropology and Sociology and the value analysis of Ethics,from the perspectives of daily lives,spiritual life and public intercourse life,the methodology studies the occurrence and the changes in core values,ethical culture and common spiritual home,thus forming a new theoretical analysis framework with empirical analysis dimension.From the perspective of this paradigm,the analysis route of the historical changes of the ethics of China's multi-ethic groups can be examined as follows:the ethical origin of the concept of human beings in the ethics of the multi-ethnic nation;how the dharma of the human beings have been formed in the ethnic ethics;"where"the dharma of the human beings have been formed in the ethnic ethics;the space of the presentation of dharma and the process of its social construction;and how the dharma has been spread and presented.