On "The Influence Of Traditional Moral On The Law Consciousness Of Modern College Students

Chinese traditional moral refers to the total sum of moral tradition represented by philosophical schools of Ru.,Muo, Dao, and Far, etc, from Pre-Qin Dynasty to the Xin-Hai Revolutionary Period and the behavioral Principles of moral Practice; Law Consciousness refers to the total conscious phenomena of People's realization, assessment, feeling and experience of law phenomena headed by the laws hi operation under certain Social conditions, according to which people adjust then-behaviors. The influence of traditional moral on the formation of law consciousness of the modern College students have both theoretical and objective bases. Morals have the characteristics of historical succession , imbalance > imperfect synchronization and mutual theory of social consciousness of social influence on each other with different patterns of social consciousness, which shows that the independent theory of social consciousness of historical materialism is the theoretical base of the influence of traditional moral on the development of the modern college students' law consciousness. The inner relation between law and moral especially that the law is value-oriented by moral and gets social support from law are the basic causes of the influence. The importance of various factors of the traditional moral influence is the direct cause; Chinese traditional moral still has modern value and influence on the formation of the modern college students' law consciousness and on the solution to the contradiction and conflict during the formation.Traditional moral has both positive and negative influence on the formation of modern college students' law consciousness. The positive influences lie in: The traditional moral of Taking the world affairs as one's own, thinking about the country and the people" lays a foundation for strengthening the students law consciousness. The moral of "To be energetic and promising, and to make unceasing efforts to improve oneself provides spiritual power for increasing the students' law consciousness; The spirit of humanism initiated in traditional moralsupports rich nutriments for the development of the students' law consciousness; The thinking of adjustment with "the feudal order of importance or seniority in human relationships" in traditional moral offers behavior guide to the formation of the students' law consciousness; The opinion of "the integration of justice with profit" proposed in traditional moral strengthens the students' law consciousness with value -judging principle. The negative influences lie in: The traditional opinion about "justice and profit" is easy to make the modern college students think of themselves out of law; and the viewpoint of "kindness and virtue" is easy to make the students feel illusive about law. The tradition of "A good scholar will make an official" helps the students feel alien from the law; The tradition of "virtue the first and punishment the second" Strengthens the students' tendency to consider law as a tool. All these negative ones create obstacles to the students' realization, feeling and behavior in the course of development of law consciousness, which slow down the speed of formation of their law consciousness.It is necessary to develop the college students' law consciousness backed by the combination of "to administer a country by law" and "to administer a country by virtue", which is both the objective demand for putting forward the modern socialist construction, and the urgent demand for promoting the construction of socialist democracy and legal system , and especially the realistic requirement for cultivating qualified personnel in our new era. The law consciousness which the modern college students should have include the folio wings: To set up the concept of handling affairs according to law, the concept of constitution and laws being the most authorative; the concept of right and duties being united together; the concept of law and freedom being hi harmony ;the concept of people being equal before legislation, etc. To strengthen students' law c...