Proper Positioning Of Modern Morality

China is in the transitional period from a traditional society to a modernsociety today. At the time that the modern morality has not been fully established,traditional morality still affects our daily life to a large extent. That is to say thatthe pan-morality tendency in real life has existed in reality. However, this is notconducive to the healthy development of modern society and to build aharmonious society. Therefore, pan-morality tendency should be criticized so thatmodern morality could be positioned on this basis.Pan-morality is inevitable because of the impact of traditional morality.Before the establishment of new China, morality has greatly influenced the wholesociety. In the transitional period from a primitive society to slave society, theproductivity was not developed fast enough to promote a radical change in therelations of production, so that the destruction of commune system of primitivesociety was limited and its moral concepts and norms were retained. At the sametime, because of China's unique geographical environment which carried withinitself the Confucian school and its long-term dominant position in history, aConfucian ethics-based established. Confucian morality attached great importanceon the concepts of benevolent, righteousness, propriety, filial piety, and on thecontrolling strength of ruling class to the spread the moral system to the wholecommunity, so that it would be beyond the scope of ethics, resulting inPan-morality.Pan-morality performance in the following areas: Firstly, because of thesimilar construction of a home and a country, the country was built according tothe family ethics. "Confucian Sangang Wuchang" is a case in point. Secondly, therelationship between performance in the interest of justice and facility is that thejustice is overweigh the facility.. Confucian ethics-based moral theory undulyelevated status above the other social fields on the moral and permeate all areas. Inthe economic field, it has led to the emphasizing of justice, corresponding andbecoming a notable tendency. Successive rulers are respected because of thesupport of the benefit of light on deep penetration into cultural values and thenational spirit, a tradition of moral culture of a marked tendency in the economicsphere. Thirdly, the assessment of social phenomena "non-good and non-evil"traditionally existed in moral thinking. In fact, in a society, some acts are neithergood nor bad, they are not suitable for using the standards of good or evil inmoral, but in the non-good and non-evil thinking, between good and evil acts arein a moral scope, leading to the pan-moralityPan-morality is harmful to social ethics. First of all, it's one-sided emphasison the primacy of moral and improperly denies the fundamental requirement ofsocial progress. Especially when there are contradictions between the moral andsocial progress of the time, people adhere to the moral foundation rather than theneed of social progress so that to maintain the tradition. Secondly, having a strongavocation of the political and economic from morality, and wrongly denied theinherent laws of political and economics, so that lead to the confusion betweenmoral and political, between moral and legal. The mode of Moral-based thinkingaffects the society in the moralization of the politics, economics. Moral guide andcontrol the management of the operation of politics and economics, and evenbecome the highest standard to the result of evaluation of political and economicactivities. Thus, the political and economic uniqueness, objectivity, regularity wereneglected or even be denied. For example, the emphasizing of the moral valuesblock the development of the market economy and the prevalence of the traditionalrule by shortcoming and political traditions are not conducive to the establishmentof the rule of law in a country. Once again, it upholds the idea of moral idealism,wrongly denied social utilitarian moral level as artificial tools, leading to thevarious needs of people on the curb and control the main character. Because ofmoral-based mentality elevated the moral operation material conditions for thepursuit of social and personal lack of moral impetus to the implementation ofethical practice and the lives of people. Finally, in the new era of China's economy,pan-morality is to reach the peak level, turning into a moral tradition, moral horror,and resulting a distortion of human nature and the countless human tragediesstaged.It is simply because that the harm of the pan-morality could not be ignored, sowe should not only to criticize, but also to position appropriately andconstructively of the modern morality in the society by criticizing. This includesthe following aspects: first, we should understand the ethical demands of modernsociety. Second, we should understand well the three words "should", "proper" and"appropriate". Third, we should persist in the rejection of pan-morality, andadvocate moral pluralism. Finally, we should avoid to go the other extreme, that isto say that we should prevent the moral relativism and moral nihilism.