On A State's Pursuit Of Ethic Values In The History Of Changes

State Ethics is essentially the issue related to national legitimacy. The value appeal of State Ethics is not only the core content of the State Ethics but also the theory proving to the state legitimacy. China is now on the phase of social transition, the characteristics and patterns of our social transition will cause the trend of the value appeal of State Ethics' development and changes directly or indirectly. The dynamics of social development signed that the value appeal of State Ethics is variability. Therefore, it is of great significance to investigate the changes of the value appeal of State Ethics from a historical perspective.This thesis is divided into four chapters.In the first part, I mainly interpret the connotation of the State Ethics in the aspect of the legitimacy of the state. Each country has its characteristics of countries and public properties, the last one, which is the foundation of the validity of any country, and the form one, the study of the issue by scholars at home and abroad has prominent that issues relate to national ethical are of existence and ineluctable. For this reason, researches to the legitimacy of nation will bounded to the study of State Ethic. Subjects investigated by State Ethic are mainly about its concept and scope, its source or the premise and the value of its demands which is the core issues of the State Ethics.In chapter II, I summarize and analysis the value demands of quasihistorical ethical values in western countries. In period of ancient Greek and Roman, the value demands of State Ethics is "city of sacred", however, its has been changed into the protection to the nature rights since the western modern times begin, such as life right, liberty right and property right, etc. The value demands of State Ethics have changed from national value-neutral to state justice in contemporary western countries.In chapter III, I elaborate the Chinese value demands of State Ethics in the historical changes of China. What the ancient Chinese demands is the "royal supremacy" that generated based on national "integrated unified". In China, the value demands of State Ethics in modern times located in social environment which is volatility and in social backgrounds that attack by intense collision of Chinese and Western cultures, the demands of the value in China are "civil rights". Chinese modern value demands of State Ethics have changed form that in period of planned economy which stressed and emphasize on national interests to demands in the background of socialist market economy in which pursue individual rights and protection on the basis of national interests safeguard.In the last part of my paper, I am of the firm opinion that Chinese national aspirations of the issue based on ethical values in modern era and the present age should be in-depth study.