Probe Into The Modernization Development Of Ethics Culture Of The Confucian School

Culture link is an important angle for the study of modernization. Ethics culture of the Confucian school is one of the essential traditions in Chinese culture system. The modernization of ethics culture is one of the important respects in the whole modernization system. Thus, both history and reality bring out the academic field a great topic: how to do research on the movements and tendencies of ethics culture of the Confucian school in the contradiction between China and Occident and that between modern and tradition in the way of modernization.This article states that ethics culture of the Confucian school, as a whole, has lost its status of a positive force for modernization because of the lack of existing foundation and mechanism of passing on. When it changes from the force of drive to that of obstruction, it has to experience profound and fundamental transformation or reconstruction. Thus based on a research of the traditional ethics culture of the Confucian school as a whole, a comparison with the development, characteristics, influences of the development of contemporary ethics culture of the Occident and a survey of the relationship between the change of the whole social structure and the culture's existing state, it points out a possible paradigm of changes of ethics culture of the Confucian school in the modern times and some ways and methods in which these changes can happen. Firstly, we should no longer take blood ties and sense as the foundation of ethics system but develop market economy vigorously and thus set up a moral rationality based on rational cognition and common culture personality. Then we should reform our moral modality and find a way to connect classics and modernization, reflect the dialectics spirit between communication and tolerance and rearrange the logical order of the development of China's ethics culture in the contemporary times.This article employs a synthetical and integrational method. It views ethics culture of the Confucian school as an organic whole from both the base of its system( blood ties and sense ) and morality (morality of virtue). The author believes those two factors of ethics culture of the Confucian school are of great importance to China's transformation to modernization and that these two factors still have a profound effect on China's current society and have a sharp conflict with market economy. Many problems of the reform and reconstruction of China's ethics culture in the new period result from them.This article also employs a comparative approach. It tries to make use of another cultural resource and its concept and theory to help us understand both the difficulties and the ways out.The issue of social culture always has a close connection with anthropology, sociology, psychology, political science, economics, ethics and many other sciences, but it still remains to be an independent subject. The author makes great efforts in the subjects' integration.In the end, this article also gives some necessary explanations, including the research on the modernization of ethics culture of the Confucian school梩he relationship and differences between ethics culture of the Confucian school and modernization, some viewpoints on the nature of precocity and positive factors of ethics culture of the Confucian school, the relationship between ethics culture of the Confucian school and the mainstream socialist culture, and the limitation for cultural transformation.