On Moral Beliefs And Reconstruction

As a spiritual phenomenon particularly possessed by the human kind,BELIEF is driven by human kind's instinct of exceeding finity and imperfectibility ,as well as pursuing infinity and immutability.Belief contains very complex structure and social content.It has many forms with moral belief as an important one.MORAL BELIEF refers to the strong and well-formed belief of some moral model,regulation system and moral ideal,with deep and firm passion and strong responsibility to perform one's obligation,moral belief is the conformity of moral understanding ,moral sensibility and moral will on the base of moral practice.Moral belief can maintain the authority of morality substantially,promote the consciousness of moral body,realize the moral solicitude towards self,society and nature,and create the moral custom of rational self-discipline.China enjoys the reputation as a nation of etiquette and has a profound groundwork of moral belief.In current transitional period,there are phenomena of moral disorder in some fields and places.The system of moral value and its criteria become in-effective,losing the proper function of adjusting in social history stage.This is a crisis of moral belief which has complex social backgrounds.We should envisage the crisis,analyse the reasons and take useful measures.Facing a new life word,life order and value system,we claim that the measures as further reforms in economic system and more supervision by the public opinion shall be taken to reconstuct moral belief systematically and historically,in order to build up the belief and respect of socialist ideology that fits the socialist market economy in harmony with socialist law system and that inherits Chinese virtue.Among these,as a procedure of culturing social members' morality,moral education is the core approach to the re-structre of moral belief.