On The Construction Of Ethic Institutionalization

Aiming at modernization, the contemporary reform and opening-up in China has brought about profound changes to people's ethical concepts, and the purposive problem of the practice has been brought seriously to all members of Chinese nation. Therefore, all kinds of methods and ways are explored actively so as to increase positive effects of the ethic construction. However, the research of the ethic construction has been focused for long on strengthening and improving moral education, which lays particular stress on the self-improvement mechanism of ethic and meanwhile little about the externally restraint mechanism which is the core of regulating mechanism of the ethic construction. This "imbalance" is responsible for failure due results in the ethic construction. Basing on this recognition and understanding, this thesis tries to a tentative discussion about the construction of ethic institutionalization starting from its institutionally restraining mechanism. At present, since the research of institutional ethics is mainly focused on its terminology, the construction of ethic institutionalization should give its first priority to the collation of its concepts and nature, and clarify its necessity in our social life. In the ethic construction, some basic, abstract and changeable ethic values and ethic principles are added a quality of "rigidity" to make ethics become a combination of the process and tool of the exiting system, a combination that is general, clear and full of compulsory force. This is called the ethic institutionalization. The institutionalized ethic have characteristics of ethics and of institutions, and apart from its universal characteristics, the ethics has the following one: (1) Authoritative and compulsory; (2) equal and operational;(3) direct and generally-applicable; (4) transformable and purposive. The ethic institutionalization is neither a simple mixture of ethics and system nor a forced operation imposed on ethics from the outer patterns of system and law, but an organic combination of system and ethics, which embraces the outer links and the inner agreement of the two. The construction of ethic institutionalization is caters for the current situation of our country's ethics, which is very important in guaranteeing the basic order of social life. First, it is an important assurance forprotecting the healthy running of the market-oriented economy. Second, it is an important way for reestablishing of the authority of ethics. Third, it is needed for the stability of our society.As an important way of improving ethic construction, the feasibility of ethic institutionalization lies in (I) the inherent law of ethic construction is the key to understand the feasibility construction of the ethic institutionalization, and the key to avoid the one-way of ethic construction concerned. From both the moral education and part of the individuals, the institution construction of outside-discipline is the basis and premise of the shaping of one's ethics and the basis and premise for one to become self-disciplined. (II) the regulation of ethics and that of the system supplements each other, and they show a mutual and interacting relation and they has their inner mechanism, including (1) the foundation of the supplement of each other: the homogeneous nature of ethics and institution;(2) the condition of the supplement of each other: the heterogeneous of ethics and institution; (3) the realization of supplement of each other: system and ethics are compatible with each other. (III) the function embraced in the ethic institutionalization expresses the role it plays in ethic construction from its inner values that are benefit to the society. All in all, it mainly has these functions: (1) spreading and influencing;(2) discarding function; (3) guiding function.Today, how to make ethic institutionalization in a scientific and reasonable way has become an urgent task for us. On the principles of construction, ethic institutionalization should mainly include: (1)flexible and appropriate: This is...