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The Research Of Charitable Virtue And Social Value

Posted on:2010-08-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z YanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360275455959Subject:Ethics
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The charity is a kind of human virtues.The philanthropy is a general designation that individual or the social group assists on the disaster victims,the poverty and other living difficulties,based on ideas of mercy,sympathy,rescue and so on.Since the ancient times,the Chinese have the traditional virtues such as enjoy doing charitable things,help the poor, respect the elders,care for the young and help the disabled weakly,which have not only rooted in people's morality and the value belief,but also have manifested in simple behavior which helps the poor voluntarily,and has also accomplished Chinese nation's unique charitable culture,and instructs the generations in devoting the philanthropy.In 1994,the China Charity Federation was founded.With the support of the party and National government,under the general populace's warm participation,our country's philanthropy obtains the rapidly expand.Various places emerge the massive charitable organization in civil society,and some enterprises,organization even individuals also establish the philanthropic institutions,to help the needed because of the family,poor and weak,sick and disabled,the disaster.Therefore,we should ponder from the charitable virtues,inquire from the angle of human nature and the social organism thoroughly,awaken people's charitable consciousness, strengthen people's charitable idea,cultivate the modern society's charitable culture,and consummate and improve policies and regulations of the charity organization and the charitable rescue.It has become the only way to promote our country philanthropy healthyThe paper analyzes its conception,the classification and the characteristic at first.And then elaborates its theory basis and the practice way,and discuss its social value at last.The content divides into four major parts:The first part is the introduction charitable concept,the classification,the characteristic.This part first from China traditional cultural explanation to the charity,the Western culture's charity's explanation and the modern people understanding to the charity conception and so on,began to make a quite thoroughly definition.Then combined the understanding and practice to the charity of the each social stratum in current society,the paper will divide it into four kinds:the patriarchal clan's charity,the religious charity,the government's charity and society's charity and carry on the elaboration separately. Finally it elaborated its five characteristics,such as free,voluntary,managed by the people, the sociality and no the national boundary and so on.The second part is studies and elaborates the charity's theory basis.This part from human nature of China's Confucian theory,the social organism theory,humanitarianism theory, elaborates the charity theory basis.Confucianism as a Chinese ideology's traditional knowledge system contains many value resources,which are being helpful to the philanthropy growth and the consummation.For instance,the majority Confucians scholars who approve of nature friendly theory occupy the dominant position in our country tradition ethics culture. This article seeks ideological and theoretical foundation of charity from the Confucians theory of human nature.The social organism theory is that treats the entire society as one that depends on each other mutually.The society is composed by living person,so to process the individual and society's relations is advantageous in making the entire social organism harmonious orderly revaluated.In this sense,charity can play the very good lubricant role, and make the entire social developed harmoniously and Staley.The humanitarianism values are philanthropy's important spiritual prop.Without the basis of the multiform humanitarianism measure,each kind of disaster suddenly is unable to defeat,and the survival unfortunately and happy life's right will difficultly obtain the safeguard.In the contemporary society,to carry forward the humanitarianism spirit,and launch the multiform humanitarianism's rescue,is advantageous to maintain the social stability,and promote socialist ideological and ethical progress.The third part is the elaboration charity's practice way.The charity is not merely the benevolence and the charitable disposition;otherwise,it will lose the original significance. Any charity aims at the practice,and is the charitable salvage operation which the social citizens carry on spontaneously.The charitable rescue already is not only the government and the society's completely responsibility and the duty,but one kind of brand-new social values. Its goal is through the way to help the most difficult person in society,to promote social justice,and progressive,which is advantageous in our country's social morals construction, socialist spiritual civilization and Building a socialist harmonious society.The fourth part is the explanation charity's social value.This part from the significance to individual moral personality growth,advantage to the social equity and fair and advantage in the construction socialism harmonious society,elaborates the charity's value and the significance in modern society,awakens people's charitable compassion,strengthens people's charitable consciousness,renews people's charitable idea,makes the charity developed generally in the modern economic society,and attracts more and more organizations,the enterprise,the association and participate in personally the philanthropy.In brief,everybody may make the charity,and everybody may become the philanthropist. The charity around us,and may be raised.We should enable charity to become one kind of moral custom,make it into the heart,forms one kind of moral training and the moral boundary, and one kind of self-value and life value manifestation.If the people can understand the charity's significance and the value truly,it will play a very important promote role in harmonious society construction,as well as in the fair and just cause's development.
Keywords/Search Tags:The virtues of charity, Theory of human nature, Charitable rescue, Moral personality
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