Reconstruction Of Moral Belief

The essence of moral crises is the crises of faith, the root of which is rampancy of tool rationalism and a high level of secularism and peripherization of religion. To resolve moral crisis, we must establish people's new faith in morality, which requires us to resort to religion, especially traditional religions. Religion performs functions of psychological adjustment, society reorganization, social control, individual socialization, identification and culture. In the process of establishing new moral faith system, we should make full use of the social role of religion to establish new moral belief system with religious resources. Religion should be used as the basis of moral belief,Religion is morality belief-rization provide home to return to. Sacredness of religious faith should give divine authorization to moral judgment. Ultimacy of religious faith should provide ultimate value and goal to moral faith. Religious belief should guide social members to perform in accordance with ethical standards. Divine retribution and the notion of heaven and hell are essential guarantee to morality. In practical moral establishment, we should regard Chinese traditional religions, including Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism, as mainstay, with Confucianism as the core. We should integrate good traditions and religious elements of various ethnic groups. Preferable elements of world religions should be learnt to realize the modern transformation of Confucianism. All the above efforts aim to establishing new unified religion and moral faith, getting rid of predicament of moral and faith crisis.