Rule By Virtue Is Ultimately Realized In The Course Of Governing The Country By Laws

How to make moral principles and laws function properly and efficiently in the society administration has long been a debating topic both in the East and in the West. The society in the course of modernization will expect more and newer demands from administration model. Recently, President Jiang Zemin advanced the important idea that the rule by law should be combined with the rule of virtue.That is the new explanation of the general plan of running the country while the Party lead the people building socialism with China characteristics in the process of modernization driving. That is the utilization and development of Den Xiaoping' s idea of "Efforts must be made to build a society that is advanced mightily both materially and culturally and ideologically .And that deepens the ulity of theory with pratice over the socialist cultural and ideological progress in the extraordinary period of the contry's reform, opening-up and modernization drive. The proposal to combine "Rule by virtue" with "Rule by Law" has tremendous realistic significance in theory and in practice. Ruling the country by virtues will help boost the healthy development of the socialist marketing economy form loft}' ideological foundation for ruling the country by laws, assess correctly the social function of moral principles and systematize modernization strategies. Meanwhile. Rule by Virtue has far-reaching significance of our age in the modern China.As for the relationship between Rule by Law and Rule by Virtue, many scholars have expressed various opinions. But some of them have plunged into misleading understandings. Some equate Rule by Virtue with Rule By Men and conclude that the combination of Rule by Virtue with Rule by Law will result in weakening the strength of laws: others hold the view that ruling the country by virtues will make some moral principles become the tool to realize certain political intention. As a matter of fact,these viewpoints above are misunderstanding over the ralationship between the rule of virtue and the rule by law.The cause of these misunderstandingsmainly lies with such people can't correctly realize the relationship between the two.We should criticize these errors. And we should make people understand clearly that the rule of virtue,which are advocated today,not only is different from the rule by man,but also can't be mentioned on the same breath with the rules of virtue which appeared in our history.The combination of the rule of virtue with the rule by law won't weaken the latter,and will promote and advance it.The proposal of the rule of virtue won't make the morals become the tool of some political intentions,and will contribute to the excution of the Iine,guiding principals and policy of the Party and our country.and will be helpful for the implementation of the determination of the country.and will guarantee the people's immediate and vital interests. These obscure understandings are wrong in theory and harmful in practice. So it is necessary to unearth the reasons for these mistaken understandings and clarify the knowledge in this respect.hi the present China, which is the necessity and demand of the reality, is established on. our correct understanding and profound analysis of their relationship. Both of them are the two major norm systems, which the human society cannot do without. The combination of the two does not mean obliterating their distinctions. In reality, laws and moral principles have their own position in the social life. But these still lies possibility to combine the two together because they are closely related and have overlapped value pursuit .The two norm systems are supposed to support each other, complement each other and develop together harmoniously with respect to achieve best effects of society administration.In the process both of modernization of China and of building up a socialist China ruled by law, governing the country by moral principles must be implemented correctly. The rule by law is the sign of the civilized and democratic society.The implementat...