The Modern Ethical Implication Of The Five Precepts And Ten Good Acts

As the western culture permeates gradually, ideas of freedom and individual liberty infuse the thinking of the Chinese people quietly. The western culture makes people eager to break the inherent ethics which contains Chinese traditional moral. However, the social moral falls into another dilemma at the same time: people can't yet ensure that they can build a stable and reasonable social moral new order, they blind down with traditional moral culture, the heart of people are blundering and the ethics loses standard as a result. China's social cohesion of the inherent ethics are undercutting, meantime the public morals declines phenomenon more and more serious, so that caused many social problems. In China's traditional ethics, including "the five precepts and ten good acts" as the traditional culture of the rational core, it is considered dross and completely denied. In this background, the author with the serious attitude, from modern ethical aspects, discusses "the five precepts and ten good acts", hope that the discussion can play a valuable role in the reestablishing of the traditional reasonable social ethics.Ethical problems of human society as an important category of philosophy, it is concerned by the philosophers. Different philosophers hold different views. However, the principles of ethics problems are similar and related with"to be"and"ought to be". Such as which phenomenon follows or breaks ethical standard."The five precepts and ten good acts"is just about"ought not to do"and"ought to do". Marx says that the philosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways; the point is to change the world in his article "the outline about Feuerbahc". Indeed, the ethical experts just explain ethics in different ways, and the problem is to restore the ethics in originally. Indeed, the history of human society is accompanied with the ethics of inner inheritance, and it is not the general of product of negation of negation. Therefore, it develops the traditional ethical excellent and agrees with the current situation of the social ethics composition, and explains the human ethics in originally, which is the mainly task of Modern social ethics construction.Confucianism and Buddhism and Taoism are the main component of Chinese traditional culture. In the practical significance they advocate starting from basic behavior, cultivate the personal character and the social ethics. Di Zi Gui is the foundation of Confucian ethics. Tractate of the Most High One on Actions and Consequences is the foundation of Taoist ethic. The Discourse On The Ten Wholesome Ways Of Action is the foundation of Buddhist ethics. Their total programs have never left the rage of "Don't be evil and practice all good acts". However, in the modern social many ethical theories get rid of the bondages of the traditional ethics, but unfortunately they fall into their bondages by themselves. They barely maintain being rewritten and collapsing of the social ethical order, and they unknowingly make social ethics more chaos. In the reality they deviate from the traditional ethics such as "the five precepts and ten good acts". Therefore, we must clear up ethics fragments and restore the reasonable ethical order by some means and methods, and we unify social ethics and morals in the necessary field.Facing many of the ethical issues, "the five precepts and ten good acts" is the basic content of the Buddhist view of life, and it is also an important part of modern social ethics. The five precepts are not to killing, not to stealing, not be lust, not to lying, and not to drinking. The ten good acts are not to killing, not to stealing, not be lust, not to lying, not to sowing discord, not to cursing, not to blandishing, not be greedy, not be hatred and not be ignorance. Although "ten good acts" and "the five precepts" are covered with each other, they also have different gradation. Mainly, though they have common requirements, but "ten good acts" are far beyond "the five precepts". "Ten good acts" have more comprehensive regulations in individual behavior motivation. It is need to pointing out that "The five precepts" are not only to prevent immoral behavior. They also have individual subjectivity and consciousness of moral behavior, which just be moderate hidden. In the face of this hidden problem, "Ten good acts" have more internal regulation elements, but if denying the efficacy of "the five precepts" on individual consciousness, there will be another problem. For the explanation of two problems, the experts have many doubts and unsolved mysteries. In the face of these doubts and problems, the author will analyze these doubts and problems in this essay of the second chapter and the third chapter. In the first of chapter of this essay the author will explain the meaning of "the five precepts and ten good acts". As two ethical principles, "the five precepts" and "ten good acts" are separately explained in the Buddhist scriptures. Because they are in the content overlap, no matter the academia or the religious, people define they are "the five precepts and ten good acts".From the perspective of modern moral practice, as major ethical elements, "the five precepts and ten good acts" and "six ways that Buddhist practit" can be applied in each group and each species in many aspects. From an ethical point of view, they are not artificially created theory. In fact, they are the truth of the universe and life. They describe the human moral bottom line and the potential value of human nature. Meantime they often contain the people universal demand. From the classical literature and social reality, the essay will analyze the potential ethical value of "the five precepts and ten good acts" and explain the modern ethical implication of "the five precepts and ten good acts", which contains three angles: the meaning of "the five precepts and ten good acts", the modern ethical spirit of "the five precepts and ten good acts", and the modern ethical practicing of "the five precepts and ten good acts".