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Analysis Of The Ethical Function Of The Social Security System

Posted on:2009-10-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L W ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2206360242999466Subject:Ethics
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At present, China's reform and opening up has entered a critical stage. The transformation of mechanism and the adjustment of interests brought many increasing problems of unemployment, competition, failure and other social risks for people. The widening of income gap and the worsening of social contradictions have become the social problems to be reckoned with. Against such a background, it is necessary to have a related social mechanism which can play a role as an effective regulation. Social security system is such a social public system, which can guarantee the community members' basic living needs and avoid getting their lives into difficulties through the redistribution of social resources. The redistribution of the national income can improve social equity and prevent the gap between the rich and the poor widening. However, as China's social security system is still in the process of reform, this system is not sound and the position of its basic functions is fuzzy, which means that the social security system is still unable to effectively take up this social responsibility.On the reform of the social security system, the scholars at home mostly propose its reform from the economics point of view by focusing on economic interests. However, the social security system is a system that has the ethical qualities, which aims at providing a theoretical basis and support for the formulation and implementation of this system from an ethical point of view. In this thesis, the theoretical basis is Ethics and the methods adopted here are interdisciplinary analysis. Basing on the disciplines of Ethics and Social Security and focusing on the ethical functions of social security system, this thesis aims at exploring how to improve the social security system.Starting from the historical development of China's social security system, this thesis firstly analyzes its various defects in the period of planned economy and then reveals and analyzes the current situation of China's social security system reform and its ethical problems. At the present stage, the ethical problems that China's social security system faces are the insufficient humanity, inadequate fairness, lack of the spirit of mutual assistance, as well as the improper ethical conduct on the dimension of operating this system.The social security system has the ethical characteristics of humanity, fairness and mutual assistance. On humanity, it is the soul of the social security system; on fairness, it is its ethical goal; on mutual assistance, it is its essence. About the various ethical problems that China's social security system faces, we should further highlight the humanism, social equity and mutual assistance in the process of its reform. Humanism, social equity and mutual assistance are the three basic ethical functions of social security system. The reform of China's social security system should be based on "fairness at the bottom line" which is the manifestation of its ethical functions in the mechanism, i.e. ensuring a minimum standard of living, social insurance and social welfare. It also supplements as the supporting measures. This can more properly promote the reform of China's social security system develop in a better order.At present, speeding up the establishment and perfection of the social security system has become the prominent manifestation of the Community Party of China and the government's idea of reigning over the country. At the Party's 17th Congress, General Secretary Hu Jintao in the report proposed that "We must accelerate the establishment of the social security system for urban and rural residents and guarantee the basic living standard of the people". This shows that the governing for the people and caring for the people's livelihood have become the consensus of our Party and society. We firmly believe that if we adhere to the Party's general principle made in the 17th Congress, identify the breakthrough point for the reform of social security system, establish the correct ethical concepts and highlight the function of its essence, China's reform of the social security system will make a better and faster development.
Keywords/Search Tags:social security system, ethical functions, manifestation
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