企业文化中所扮演的角色文化在道德发展中的应用外文翻译.doc

本科毕业论文（设计） 外 文 翻 译 The Role of Culture in Moral Development Introduction The title of this discussion, The Role of Culture in Moral Development, points to two different, albeit inter-related, questions: first, what role does culture play in moral development?; and second, what is the proper responsibility of a culture in guiding the moral growth of its members? This paper does not systematically explore what the proper role of a culture is in the area of moral growth, and it recognizes that precisely what this role should be is rightly subject to debate. At the same time, it takes it for granted that because, as I will discuss, the social universe that children encounter inevitably, and for better or for worse, influences their moral growth, a community needs to view itself as responsible for the moral growth of its members. This paper argues that while this communal responsibility cannot be adequately discharged through special-purpose institutions like schools, such institutions, if thought of in the right way, may be capable of playing a significant role in the process of moral growth. The reasons for this view will emerge through our inquiry into the role that, intended or not, culture does play in the moral development of its members. Before embarking on this inquiry, and because terms like culture and moral development are far from self- explanatory, let me preface my remarks with a few comments concerning how I will be interpreting these terms in the context of this paper. I will be using the term culture in a fairly intuitive and very broad sense to denote the totality of the social environment into which a human being is born and in which he/she lives. Culture in this sense includes the communitys institutional arrangements (social, political, and economic) but also its forms of art and knowledge, the assumptions and values embedded in its practices and organization, its images of heroism and villainy, it various systems of ideas, its forms of work and r