Kant's Ethical Thought Of Citizens

The second half of the 18th century to the early 19th century, the great philosopher Kant, famous for its "critical philosophy" in Germany created a "Kant's revolution." In this period, the citizens of ethical thought in Western societies associated with the rapid rise of German classical philosophy. As an example of German classical philosophy, Kant's Ethical Thought of citizens with limited rational beings as the prerequisite of citizenship, based on "free", "equality", "independence" of the civil rights based on the rational use of the history of the Enlightenment context, convinced that the moral standards in public life is progressive, stressing the importance of civic responsibility, in a universally applicable attitude in dealing with the absolute imperative of ethics of the relationship between civic life. For this reason, Kant further extend the concept of the state of the world's citizens to "permanent peace" as a prerequisite to develop "complete justice, the citizens of the Constitution" for the eventual realization of "moral purpose of kingdom" vision.This view of the current comprehensive, systematic study of Kant's ethical ideas of citizens are still rare, as well as with civil society, citizens of our lives continues to expand communication and depth of the ethical issues generated by the many citizens of the status quo, trying to excavation and interpretation of Kant's ethical ideas of citizens , combined with the realities of our country and put forward China's Kant's Ethical Thought of citizens to build civil society and inspiration. For a long time to Confucian ethics as the mainstream of traditional Chinese ethics is people pay more attention to the inherent qualities, and modern civic ethic, by contrast, it is concerned that morality is the human interaction in the public domain in the process of should follow the code of ethics and the moral character should have. China's traditional ethics Que is the loss of the value of the field of ethics of the modern citizen.And Kant's ethical ideas of citizens in a certain sense, as more mature citizens of the Western ethical thinking, in today's context of economic globalization, for our country in building a socialist harmonious society in the historical process, due to civil and political participation in the system of non - sound, political expression and public oversight of the channels are not smooth and other reasons caused by the citizens of ethical issues and crises can be properly resolved, with great value and significance of the study.This paper is divided into Kant's Ethical Thought of citizens forming the background and theory of origin, the interpretation of Kant's ideas of citizens and the citizens of Kant's Ethical Thought of three parts described.Part I: From Kant's ethical ideas generated by citizens of the social background to start, by Kant's Ethical Thought of citizens representative of works dating back to ancient Greek times, read their Kant's ethical ideas generated by citizens of inspiration and then analyze the Enlightenment to Kant citizens the direct impact of ethical thought, which is citizen awareness and understanding of Kant's ethical thought the first step.Part II: interpretation of Kant's ethical ideas of citizens the focus of this article. First, a clear identification of citizenship is to be the interpretation of Kant's Ethical Thought of citizens prerequisite. After the civil rights "freedom", "equality", "independence" set out in detail, stressing that "freedom" as a natural given the importance of the rights of human beings only. Able to protect the civil rights case, highlighting the civic responsibility, to comply with the absolute imperative of moral rules, citizens "for their own legislation." At the same time stressed that "citizens of the world state", as Kant's a great idea is to Kant's Ethical Thought of citizens an important component, though this is humanity's common good wishes, but the "eternal peace" and "moral purpose of the Kingdom" is a great idea but with theoretical studies of deep value.Part III: comprehensive analysis of the summary of the features of Kant's ethical ideas of citizens, the times and modern revelation, in particular, with the last part of our country's current realities, the exploration and analysis of Kant's ethical ideas of citizens in China to build civil society in the process of facing the citizens of Ethical issues and their countermeasures revelation is no doubt the purpose of this research.In short, this paper's interpretation of Kant's Ethical Thought of citizens and Analysis on legislation based on specific historical conditions under which essence, exploration and analysis that can solve the build process of China's emerging civil society, ethical issues of civic response, namely This paper highlights and value.