A Study On Charitable Ethics In Contemporary China

In contemporary China, social construction to improve people’s livelihood has become anecessary condition for building a harmonious socialist society, to improve people’s livelihood,we must improve the social security mechanism and promote the development of philanthropy.Healthy and orderly development of charity is indispensable to the transition of the ethics and thesupport of related moral system, therefore strengthening the research about charity ethics is veryimportant.Charity aslo has many modern factors in charity philanthropy and charity behavior inaddition to the traditional meaning of "kindness goodness". The charity of chinese socialismtakes the means of Marxist human rights theory and Deng xiaoping’s common prosperityideology as its theoretical support, and aslo take Chinese characteristic socialism theory systemwith Chinese characteristics for the practice of ethics of charity.The charity of chinese socialismdepends on the current situation of the development of philanthropy in contemporary China. Thecharity of chinese socialism is now facing three aspects ethical dilemma: charity charitable spiritin contemporary China lags behind and the modern charitable consciousness is weak; bydifferent understanding of charity original meaning due to the confusion and biased of publicawareness and behavior; honesty and credibility crisis.Charity as a moral realm has the ethicalcharacteristics of helping others free of charge. And taking the individual virtue and the socialjustice as its ethic foundation.It aslo has its unique ethical value pursuit in the spiritual supportand source of motivation, moral principle and implementation way.In the face of the current social background which is gradually expanding gap between therich and the poor, and the social morality is indifference. The charity ethics as all the charity’svalue conducive is not only to promote the healthy development of charity, and aslo plays a bigrole in maintenance of social stability and improvence the citizen morality and the constructionof socialist harmonious society. Constructing china charity ethics should be based on thecontemporary situation of contemporary Chinese and contemporary China charity development.The concept of charity has based on three supports for the theory,they are the Marx’s theorysystem, the Chinese characteristic socialism and the common prosperity of primary stagesocialism. Basing on traditional, global and reality three aspects as the breakthrough point,Constructing China socialist charity Ethics: firstly, inheriting Chinese excellent traditionalcharity culture and properly developing it,then explanat it modernly and added on valueable;secondly, absorbing and learning from the world especially western charity ethics properly,“takes its essence, goes to its dregs”; finally, based on the current development stage of charity, nither remaining stagnant nor instanting success.Only in this way, can we build a truly Chinesecharacteristics theory about charity ethics.