Back to PHl402 Table of ContentMARXIAN ETHICS AND RADICAL ETHICSMarxian EthicsThree stages: Idealistic humanism,Scientific economismDialectical materialismIdealistic Humanism1. Man as the supreme being2. A higher kind of civilization3. Good based on human nature4. Two kinds of ethics5. Universal morality6. Objective moral norms7. Moral alienationScientific economism1. " Useful things and useless people "2. Modern morality as a outcome of capital commercial society3. Alienated human nature by surplus value of labor4. Man as a slave of machine in the process of productionDialectical Materialism1. Morality as a product of political oppression and economical exploitation2. Morality as a reflection of class struggle and capitalist decadence3. Moral principles as social consciousness determined by social existence4. Ethics as a type of ideology: part of political superstructure5. Fully developed human beings through communism 躩6. Morality changed by the social developmentCritical EthicsTo provide a moral justification for the violent over throw of the existing social systemMarcuse1. Relation between ethics and revolution2. Ethical terms applied in political and social movement3. The general and individual welfare4. Rational criteria5. Moral standards as historical standards6. Two historical rights7. The means and relation as the ethical problem of revolutionExistentialist ethics" Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself: the first principle of existentialism "1. An ontological characterization of man: Being for Themselves 2. Freedom and responsibility of men3. Morality from human consciousness4. Absurdity of the actions, creations and choices of men5. No fixed moral rules6. Good and evil without objective properties7. Obligations as inventions8. Irrationalized and individualized moral principles9. Morality linked to the actions and intentions of