ABSTRACT Drawing on my own work and experience, this paper brings together the various connections between critical realism (CR) and ethics. It argues that, against both determinism and physicalist reductionism, CR provides the very conditions of possibility for ethics. It goes on to identify a number of ethical matters that CR addresses that have not received adequate notice: Truth as among the conditions of possibility for ethics and as a democratic value in itself; the ethics of belief as opposed to action; the distinction between micro and macro-morality and the privatization of the latter; and moral purpose. The paper argues finally that ethics need to be grounded ontologically somehow, presumably in some transcendental way, which implies a connection with religion or at least some grounding secular worldview that treads on the religious domain.

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对批判现实主义和道德的反思

摘要根据我自己的工作和经验，本文将批判现实主义（CR）与道德之间的各种联系汇集在一起​​。它认为，对于决定论和物理还原论，CR都为道德提供了可能性的条件。它继续确定了CR未解决的伦理问题，而这些伦理问题并未得到足够的重视：真相是存在伦理的可能条件之中，本身是民主价值；与行动相对立的信念伦理；微观道德与宏观道德之间的区别以及后者的私有化；和道德目的。该论文最后指出，伦理学必须以某种本体论的基础，大概是某种先验的方式，