On The Ethical Analysis Of The Social Security

Social security is a kind of social-economic system, which is used to give appropriate aid to social member when they encounter illness, working injure, maternity, death, unemployment and other hazard, to ensures their basic life. Up to the present, the social security experiences seed , development, ripeness, reform four periods. Though the international community security system is different, social relief social insurance and social welfare make their common contents and characteristic.The social security contains ethical characteristic of fairness, humanity and mutual-aid. In regard to fairness, the social security is in pursuit of the fairness, emphasizes the opportunity that the member participates fairly and becomes the valid mechanism to maintain basic right of social members. At the same time. It decreases the unfairness of social members developmental results in a sense by income distribution. In regard to humanity, the object of social security is the social member in all, especially social minority community. With the perfection of the social security system continuousty and the abundance of its contents, it is not only from material but also from the spirit that it gives concern to the social members especially social minority and expresses a more and more humanity. In regard to mutual-aid, the social security makes the mutual-aid become a kind of systemizing behavior; Investigating collection and distribution of the social security funds and the origins and organizational principle of the social insurance, we can discover the social security has abundance of the mutual-aid.In practice, the social security ensures social member of basic life, moderates economic development, promotes social stability, and brings about "security-net " function; on the other hand, the social security also exposes ethics problems. Efficiency problem, labor attitude problem and the problem of weakening of the duty in individuals and family self-security are a key problem in westem developed capitalism countries; but the shortage of farness and humanity, low efficiency are the problemsthat our country need to solute.Drawing lessons from the abroad experiences, contacting the condition of our country, holding the ethics characteristics of social security, we should keep moral consciousness such as fairness, humility , mutual-aid and self-security, and cultivate the pity of the social member, while establishing policy, we should insist balance between fairness and efficiency, combine self-security with mutual security and abide by the principle of humanism.