On The Moral Emotion

The moral emotion is one of human high-level social emotion, which is an important means of maintaining the moral order. In the practice of human ethics, moral emotion is the most dynamic factor. It makes individuals full of vigor and vitality, and it is the hub of all morality. Once moral emotion formed, it will affect the motivation, moral will and moral habit. It is also the role of evaluation, regulation and incentive of ethical behavior. Moral emotion as a social emotion, it inextricably linked with people's moral practice, national psychology and the spirit of the times. It is the base of moral practice and standard of society which make an effect on people's behavior. Moral emotion is a special cultural phenomenon in the form of people's feelings, empathy and values infiltration. Its practical features form the status and role in the modern social life. In this sense, moral emotion researching stress the link of moral emotion and ethical practice, makes moral emotion and moral obligation to unify. And explore actively the field and role in its applying. Meanwhile, moral emotion should be studied with the moral development of social life in the modern time, revealing the importance and urgency of nurturing the current moral sensibility and its ways and means. It can optimize of the current moral environment, and promote the construction of socialist spiritual civilization by moral emotion researching.