The Traditional Morality Of The East And West, Modern Transformation Characteristics And Enlightenment

The modern shift of traditional moral is an important part of the modern process of the East and the West. The shift and the whole modern process promote one another and at length help to bring about the realization of the modernization of the East and the West. The social existence decides the social consciousness. Economy is the most rudimental social existence. As a form of social consciousness, its shift will ultimately acquire the vigor from the economic development. At the same time, the moral evolution is also provided with its relative independency, so its shift cannot but critically draw spiritual material from the traditional moral and the heterogeneous moral. This is the common ground of the modern shift of the traditional moral between the East and the West. However, due to the difference of moral tradition, historical background and the situation of the countries, the modern traditional moral shifts of the East and the West show themselves respective characteristics. Comparing between the East and the West, we see that the moral shift of the West take individualism as its value guide and during the process the social trend of thought has magnitude influence over it while in the east countries, integral profit is emphasized when acknowledging just individual profit and besides, the government plays a leading role. The difference and sameness of the West and East moral shift tell us: the moral construction must adapt to the necessity of market economy development, afford ample moral resource and spiritual impetus to market economy development. The modern shift of our country must argue against conservative and parochial moral concept and take an open attitude to animadvert on traditional and heterogeneous moral, to draw it and to use it for reference so as to promote its own development. We must be practical and realistic to study the elite and the draff of traditional and heterogeneous moral profoundly, penetratingly and concretely and avoid by all means to do nothing but to halt at the so梒alled synthetic, and innovative abstract principle. We ought to deal properly with the relation between collective profit and individual profit, achieve the dialectical unity of them and fight against using visional collective profit to snuff just individual profit and extremely individualism. Besides, during the government bring into play its leading role, we should exert the compatible and mutual function of every social ethic thoughts, by the guidance of Marxism and taking it as a criterion, that is, whether it is propitious to socialist construction or not.