近代以来，中国逐渐接纳以分科为标志的现代学术体系，传统伦理话语不再构成主要的“道德知识资源”。在吸收西学和创新传统中，中国道德转型从理论建构与社会改造两个维度展开。从儒家理学“本体—功夫”范式到现代“伦理学”范式的演进中，中国近代伦理话语体系渐成雏形。概念、价值与方法的三重革新是中国近现代道德转型的历史背景。严复等人通过译介西学，开始了近代伦理话语概念的革新，为顺利地接引现代伦理学体系奠定了基础，“义利关系”的再检讨初步形成了近代伦理学价值体系。

Since the modern times, China has gradually adopted the modern academic system that is marked by the classification of disciplines. Hence, the traditional ethical discourse is no longer the main “resource of moral knowledge”. While absorbing the Western learning and innovating the tradition, China’s moral transformation has developed both in theoretical construction and social reform. In the evolution from the paradigm of Neo-Confucianist “substance-function” to the paradigm of modern “ethics”, the discourse system of modern Chinese ethics has gradually taken shape. The innovation in concepts, values and methods constitutes the historical backdrop of the moral transformation in modern China. By translating Western works, YAN Fu et el. start the conceptual innovation in the modern ethical discourse so as to build the base of modern ethical system. The re-examination of the “relationship between righteousness （yi） and profit （li）” has initially formed the value system of modern ethics.