On The Individual Writing As The Way Of Virtuous Practice And Its Modern Fate

Virtue is the excellent quality, which is based on the integrated life and the daily practice. It reflects the self awareness and self improvement. It satisfies the people's inner self value realization needs. In the history individual writing is not only a kind of technology, but plays an important role in people's virtuous practice in the traditional society. It is vitally related with people's daily life. The individual writing is defined as a writing phenomenon, which based on self reflection and self-awareness, with the arrangement of the individual daily life experience and the sharing of emotion and the imagination of the virtue life, to achieve the self perfect and virtue acquired. The individual writing is mainly confined to intellectual elite. It is private. The individual writing's main content is the arrangement of the individual daily life experience and the sharing of emotion and the imagination of the virtue life. Its purpose is to achieve the self identity and self perfect and virtue acquired. Although the individual writing has a variety of forms in historical evolution process, but it mainly includes three forms, that is, individual diary, individual notes, letter, which occupy the important position of virtuous practice in traditional society. In the traditional society, the individual writing plays an important role in the process of virtuous practice. As a means, it makes people to take care of themselves, reflects on their behavior, modifies behavior, and improves their virtue cultivation. As a very important way of virtuous practice, the individual writing requires a rigorous attitude and a strong will, which is in order to self perfect and virtue acquired.People arrange daily life experience, and bright to the daily life meaning and order by the individual writing. The Individual writing help people understand the essence of self, hold on the truth of self and feel the experience of life for self. This experience of life is the motivation of virtuous practice and the foundation of virtuous practice. By the individual writing, people put their ideas, understanding and identity into their writing stories and with the narrative of their stories people can achieve the self shaping. Different individuals through writing themselves or other people's stories, achieve the mutual emotional sharing. People talk and listen to each other, not only let each other to be able good communication, and share each other the true feelings, meantime with the narrative of different people's stories obtain about the self image and attitude. This is based on mutual respect, trust and equal position, through the text of two-way communication, people can open the inner spiritual world to each other. This is the sincere, acceptance and comfort for each other. With the process of mutual acceptance and motivation, people achieve the integration of spiritual and virtuous practice. Through the individual writing, people achieve the virtue education by the process of reflection and balance about the self. The individual writing makes people acquire more broad vision and more opportunities for self-reflection and virtuous practice. What's more, the individual writing makes people feel the value promotion of the individual spirit world in the process of pursuit virtue, and makes people develop the self-awareness and understanding. With the power of the enlightenment by virtue, the individual writing build a road to the practice of everyday life. Although it is a long and continuous process, however, with the individual writing people can image situation and conclude how to act in the imagination of situation. The individual writing helps people to think about the ultimate question and the meaning of existence, provide the important force for virtue acquired, and transform the virtue as a permanent quality in practice.However, along with the collapse and transform of the social society, the traditional virtue ethics has lost conditions that keep its dependence, which give back to the normative ethics with the majority of principle, contract, and institution. The normative requirement but not the virtue requirement has become the center of people's moral life. However, although the ethical turn has happened in the modern society, as a basic dimension in modern ethics construction, virtue ethics is still eternal value. It is the ultimate goal of modern ethics construction. As a traditional practical way of virtuous practice, the traditional forms of individual writing are declining. There are two reasons. On the one hand, modern social structure shifts, private space is diminishing, the life of people extends to the public space. On the other hand, people abandon traditional self and get modern self, such a kind of self is no longer the product of self-focus and self-shape, but an assumption of knowledge. Consequently, the individual writing form declines day by day. However, with the emerge of the blog and micro-blog, as one kind of new form in the network society, the boundary between privacy and public boundary is so blurry, and it bring forward many negative impact, however, it is just one aspect of the blog and micro-blog; people can achieve its self-identity and self-perfection through the blog and micro-blog so as to seek the virtuous practice, which is worth studying more. With the interaction and mutual influence of more and more the blog's author, the modern society's virtuous practice will be changed.