On National Spirit During The Ancient Roman Republic

Splendid material civilization of a nation can not be set up without corresponding spiritual civilization.High material civilization is necessarily related to high spiritual civilization.Moreover, national spirit is the core of spiritual civilization.It is the backbone of the nation.It is also the concise and reflect of the national culture,reflecting the national characteristics.What the national spirit has done to the rising of Roman Republic can be opened out by analyzing the Republican national spirit and its causation.This is the topic of academic significance.The subject of practical significance is to providing a reference for the contemporary Western society encouraging the spirit and the Chinese carrying forward national spirit.Because the existence of society decides the social consciousness,so the research methods focuses on two things follow: firstly highlight and summarize the focal points,seize the mainstream of the spirit of Roman Republic,and classify.Secondly abstract the characteristics founding on the historical facts,never fabricate.The national spirit of the Roman Republic is based on the practice.It reflects the value judgment,thinking mode and moral standard.It promotes the development of the Roman Republic.Its characteristics is based on the practices of people.Patriotism,pragmatism,the spirit of law and the spirit of harmony form the mainstream of the national spirit.The Roman have intense nationalism,which is carried out by moral principle.They follow facts,devote themselves to farming,attach importance to the widespreading and extending of agriculture.They think about government,law,faith and education with utilitarianism.They reform the military service practically.Their art,literature and city construction are also based on facts.The Roman perfectly apply law to their life.They set down successful law system.They make a model of law product.Their government concludes royalty,noble and democracy.The rights is distributed according to law.The offer of lawmen and jurist is outstanding.The spirit of harmony is the innovation of this hole text,it concludes three parts:the Senate,the praetor and the civilian conference cooperate and restrict mutually;the civilization is compatible;the nation policy is favor citizenship and conclude with federation,for the sake of unity.The causes of the national spirit of the Roman Republic includes four elements:the geo-environment,domestic and foreign policies,the ruling class and maintain religious feelings. The discussion of geo-environment is original.The national spirit do makes importance to the rise of the Roman Republic. Patriotism,pragmatism and the spirit of harmony have made impact to modern Western society.At last,relating to the contemporary Chinese national spirit,point out significance for us:enhance the fostering of national spirit;follow the spirit of harmony;make a point of keeping and innovating spirit.We must retain the historic national spirit,and we also need create new spirit characteristics.So there is a lager space for this subject.More academicians will have better conception and deep analysis.