Causes Of The Phenomenon Of "moral Indifference" And Its Correction

Moral indifference is a sort of negative moral phenomenon of that appearing in the current society. By analyzing what leads to moral indifference and how to rectify it can not only enrich the theoretical research on the moral feelings,rendering it to be more stereoscopic, dialetical and realistic as well, but also be of great realistic significance and theoretical value on the construction of social morality. Making use of the fundamental principles of Marxism ethics and such theory of correlated subjects as philosophy, socialology,psychology etc. this essay tries to,on the whole, proke into this issue. This essay is divided into four parts:Part One. A general explanation to moral indifference, that is a study of its innotation, its form of displaying and its negative consequences. The essay believes in that the emergence of moral indifference is not because of the individual' s ignorance and general indifference of emotion , but esp. refers to the individual scarcity of moral feeling, which leads to no thinking during moral judgement or torpidity toward moral action. This distortion of the sense of justice, the loss of the sense of sympathy, the shirking of moral obligation and the refusal to moral trust is the concrete manifestation of moral indifference, which results in four kinds of negative consequences,ie. the invalidation of moral enforcemant,the lack of moral activity, the loss of moral acuteness and the discontinuation of moral relationship.Part Two. An inquiry into the origin of social culture leading to moral indifference in the changing peroid of Chinese society. First, theessay traces back to the inactivity of individual' s moral feeling restrictedby traditional culture. The psychological culture background related to the generation of moral indifference is constituted by the traditional negative philosophy of life, the contradiction between the ideal pesonality restricted by etiquetle and the real personality, the lack of common morality in the society and the influence of negative human feelings etc. Second, the essay investigates the chaotic state arising in the field of value. Such phenomena as the collapse of moral faith, the ascent of vague value orientation,the invasion of ill ideological trend of the West,the anomie in moral norm, etc. has deprived the mass of their passion far selecting morality,which results in the descent of moral sensory limen. Thirdly, the essay points out that there is a insipid and profitable tendency towards feelings of human contact . On the one hand, the feelings of human contact has been becoming insipid owing to such facts as the increase of social mobility, less opportunity of communication, the indirection of getting in touch with each other, and the complicated human relationship, etc. On the other hand, real utility is unilaterally stressed. Last, the essay emphasizes that the weakness of social moral control, including the weakness of public opinion, reward and punishment, as well as education, has furnished moral indifference with negative support.Part Three. An analyses of individual' s psychological mechanism leading to the generation of moral indifference. The feedback mechanism resulting in the emergence of moral indifference refers to an negative defense manner chosen by the individual when confronted with moral anxiety, ie. handling moral anxiety by means of "indifference". The outset mechanism of moral indifference implies the aberrance of moral feeling. The conduct of moral indifference is bound to appear because of the for-malization and ritualization of moral feelings, the utilization and the irra-tionlization of moral feeling, which will turn out to be the auspice of moral indifference. The farming mechanism of moral indifference is that morality' s becoming inner factor is blocked. The truncation of social morality's turning into inner factor results in the virtue of individual's moral indifference, which,at different stages,manifests itself in the suffocation of obligation awareness, the dormancy of conscience and...