中文摘要：

在社会伦理上，哈代受达尔文进化论的影响，持“社会向善论”的观点。他认为，人类在不可改变的困境中要想生存就必须适应环境，通过自己的努力来改善人与社会的不协调关系，改善人的生存处境。其中在如何适应环境、实现人与环境的和谐关系的思想上，哈代则受到威塞克斯居民生活方式中体现出来的民间社会伦理观的启示，这种民间社会伦理完善了哈代的社会向善论。从这一意义上说，威塞克斯民间伦理在哈代小说伦理道德观念的建构中起着重要的作用。

英文摘要：

On the society ethics, Hardy held the view of meliorism society ethics, which was effected by Darwin＇s theory of evolution. He thought that in order to exist in the unchangeable predicament, mankind had to adapt them-selves to circumstances, improve the bad relation between the person and the society, and improve the human existence circumstances. His notion of how to adapt to the environment to realize a harmonious relation between mankind and the environment was enlightened by Wessex residents folk society ethics which was embodied from their life style. The folk society ethics perfected the constitution of meliorism . The Wessex folk ethics played an important part in the ethics moral construction of Hardy＇s novels.