Establishing The Fundamentality Of Social Morals

Public morality is the most fundamental, most common and the simplest behavioral principle in the social life. From the prospect of its applicability, public morality is most common because it has responsibility and obligation that all people should comply with. Viewed from its function, it has the characteristic of publicity because it guards the comm.on interest of the whole society and all the people. In content, it has wide coverage, because it covers all the relationships between people and people, people and society as well as people and nature. With the progressing of the society and development of science and technology, the division of the social labor is more and more detailed and the interaction between people and people, people and society as well as people and nature is increasingly all the same. Especially, because of the open characteristic of the market economy, the relationship between man and man has been broken, and the detailed labor division and the united market help promote people's contact and relationship. Therefore, a norm of maintaining public interest is becoming one of people's most important necessities.Public morality is the base of those more advanced morals such as commitment, contribution and sacrifice as well as an important sign of progress is civilization. Moreover, a civilized behavioral model and good public morality consciousness are of unprecedented importance in protecting common interest and good social order, establishing good inter-person relationship achieving good relationship between man and nature and guaranteeing a healthy and steady development of the society. Thos, to carry forward public morality is a necessary premise in constructing spiritual civilization.The thesis discusses the public morality construction based on the idea that public morality is the most fundamental of social moral. It is divided into threechapters.Capter one stresses that public morality is the fundamentality of moral. From its content and origin, morals are graded. Citizens in a society accept morals only step by step,firstthe lower morals then the higher. This thesis begins with the explanation of "moral fundamentality" and "public morality" based on the gradation of morals ,with the conclusion that "moral fundamentality" and public morality have the same connotation, and that they are the most basic, the most common and the siplest moral norms which every citizen of the society should abide by.Based this idea, this thesis further proves from the discussion of the origin of social morals and the comparison of three important field of social life that public morality is the most fundamental of social morala.Capter two analyzes some problems with the public morality in our country and their reasons. On the one hand, this thesis affirms the great achievement in the construction of public morality and spiritual civilization since the reformation and opening to the outside world, and on the other, it also shoes some obvious yet unreasonable challenges on the public morality, with the conclusion that there still exist some problems with the public morality. These problems have their reasons in the upgrowing utilitarianism, the habit of stressing private morals and neglecting public morality, lack of consciousness to preserve rules, inability of moral mechanism, and in the lack of emphasis public morality education.Capter three discusses the train of thought in the public morality construction in our contry. This thesis points out that in order to strengthen our public morality construction, the most important thing is to nurture a good habit and consciousness in preserving and maintaining public rules, and to establish a powerful supervising moral mechanism, and to strengthen the legislation of public morality norms, and to open public morality education among people.