Study On The Chinese Traditional Morality Of "Jie"

Ethical morality culture has the profound significance and the long history in Chinese tradition.Chinese traditional morality,the core and the soul of Chinese traditional culture,is the important component of Chinese spiritual homeland.The categories of Chinese moral including benevolence,righteousness,propriety,wisdom,trustworthiness,filial piety,loyalty,"Jie",harmony,courageousness,consideration and Middle Mean,are the core values hold by Chinese people for thousands of years,which are permeated in every corner of Chinese social moral life and establish the Chinese ethical cultural system,as well as the Chinese Ethic-oriented traditional culture.Therefore,"Jie","undoubtedly,is the important and indispensable category in the ethical culture system.No matter as a cultural concept,philosophical category and value or as a moral norm,the appearance and interaction of "Jie" has a long story in Chinese civilization,which promotes the complexity of the ideas,thoughts and theories of "Jie"-centered in historical culture.In fact,"Jie" in traditional ethics,as well as the relevant virtues such as temperance,integrity and chasteness,shows the existence state as the one-body-several-dimensions and the one-source-several-branches.Therefore,it is necessary to trace the source of "Jie" form the origin of concept,the formation of the idea to the analysis of the theory for clarifying the'Body' and 'Source' and comprehending the 'Dimension' and 'Branch'.With the complex dimensions of the moral connotation,the 'Dimension' and 'Branch' of traditional "Jie”is undoubtedly constructed by several concrete moral norms together such as temperance,integrity,loyalty and chasteness.According to the analysis of identities and roles of moral subjects,"Jie" is concluded to three main fields:'the temperance of the man','the honor of intellectual' and 'the chasteness of the female'.On the basis of the 'Body' and 'Source' of"Jie",the paper elaborates the morality of "Jie" through 'Dimension' and 'Branch'respectively.In the part of 'the temperance of the man',the paper,starting with "always-generating of Jie",investigates the "always-generating" peculiarity of temperance in the perspective of nature and humanity.Through the method of 'temperance',the misunderstanding of'temperance' and the disposition of 'temperance',the paper horizontally resolves the most important and universal meaning of 'temperance' in traditional morality of "Jie".Meanwhile,the paper,also,puts emphasis on the practice of "Jie" in thrift,simple and self-cultivation.In general,according to the rational thinking and value orientation of 'temperance',the paperm,on the ground of the relationship's "the way of Heave" and "the way of Man",is in line with two theoretical and practical logic,that is,human existence logic(human value)and nature existence(things value).In the part of 'the honor of intellectual',the paper,beginning with "Justice of Jie",elaborates the maintenance of traditional morality of "Jie" with the identity of intellectual.On the survey of cultural phenomenon and mainstream values in the history of ancient society,the honor represents the upright 'integrity' in the individual moral practice,represents the solid "loyalty" in the political morality,represents the "Justice" with faith and harmony in the inter-personal ethics.These features are the three moral basis of the honor of intellectual.At the same time,it is positive significant that the spiritual power for the intellectual by advocating the value of "honor",especially through the humanistic spirit,the moral cultivation,and the responsibility,to form morality fashion in the traditional society.In the part of "the chasteness of the female",the paper,on the ground of "propriety and righteousness of Jie",investigates the logic construction and historical transformation of the conventional virtue of "chasteness" through tracing the source of "chasteness",and hence analyzing the history conditions and culture genes of the formation of "propriety and righteousness of Jie" with the inter-relationship between "righteousness" and "chasteness".On the basis of these,the paper broadens the cultural horizon about the particularity of conventional in the method of historical reviewing the application and effect of the"chasteness" in the foreign races and nations of Confucian cultural cluster.It is pointed out that the traditional patriarchal system is the result causing the "chasteness" from a virtue to a fool doctrine,and even an evil behavior.With the feature of appropriateness,rationality and moderation,the realization of the traditional morality of "Jie" is keeping the balance of emotion,ration and value,which is in accordance with ultimate pursuit of "the mean and correctness".Admittedly,due to the application in the traditional patriarchal society,the morality of "Jie" does not only have the positive energy,but also have the negative energy.The development of history proves that the patriarchal system is the primary cause for the morality of "Jie" against its origin meaning.Meanwhile,attention to the traditional is no doubt in order to better examine the present.Only with the objective position and the rational reflection does the modern review of "Jie" reconstruct the new virtue meeting the demand of present moral construction.On the basis of creative transformation and innovation development,"Jie" as the basic value should enhance the function in the individual personality development,civil moral construction,national character building.At the same time,it should be also regarded as the possible resource of "universal ethics" in the construct of ecological civilization.