Family Ethic Heritage And Beyond

Chinese traditional family ethics have accumulated rich philosophy of life and profound humanity principles. It contains regularity and conception of truth for family, also it condenses much moral quintessence that came from people′s exploration and practice of family ethics. Carrying on and developing Chinese traditional family ethics not only can carry forward China people's traditional virtue, which will play a big role in building up modern family ethics, but also possess significant value for modern social ethics system.Family ethics is the core of Chinese traditional ethics. Chinese traditional family ethics which was engendered by the holding together from the land and the consanguinity caused that traditional family idea was stable and supreme; furthermore, it caused Chinese society stable for long time. This article summarizes the evolution and the basic standards of Chinese traditional family ethics, and tries to combine the social productive force at that time. So that we can announce the essence of Chinese traditional family ethics, and the reasons why it evolved at the different periods. Make sure that the research of the traditional family ethics combines the social productive force. Thus it offers methodology for new family ethics building.Ethics reflects the relation between society and people, so ethics changing means their relation readjusting. This article gives deep analysis towards family ethics changing due to society transformation, and the new challenge that family ethics is facing. Also it poses that the new family ethics should contain: laying equal stress on family interest and personal interest, equal loving standpoint and keeping family stable, etc. At last it shows some thought about the development of future family and its ethics.The historical background and major purpose of China traditional family ethics was to safeguard feudal autocracy, so when we study this question, we should distinguish the quintessence and the dross to inherit critically. On the other hand, this article combines the excellent family ethics tradition and the modern spirit. It summarizes the contents and characteristic of Chinese family livelihood and its ethics, so that they can be consulted to construct timeserving socialism family ethics system.