On Citizen Moral Thought Of Aristotle

Ancient Greek society bred many briliant thoughts and cultures. Moreover it also contributes to countless great minds. From the sages before Socrates to Socrates, Plato and even to Aristotle--especially Aristotle who is a master of ancient Greek thoughts. He was known as the most learned man, teacher of human soul. Many of his ideas are spoken highly by generations, enriching the western countries’ even the world’s thinking.Especially his theory of citizens, citizen education theory and the citizen moral thought theory have a profound influence on later generations.Citizens Aristotle’s theory of virtue is an important part of the theory of citizens. In this part, Aristotle thinks citizens and the states have the uniformity, all in the purpose of pursuit for good. Also in this part, Aristotle gives a detailed description of the happiness and pure good, love and justice, joy and happiness, citizen virtue and citizen education, etc., which are all around the citizen virtue to launch. In "the mark, ethics," Aristotle’s theory of virtue thought, love, self-control, justice, the middle road, and happiness are Aristotle’s important contents of moral citizens view, which is the way to enhance citizens’ moral character.Western political thought has a long history, and it is crystallization of thousands of years’ development of human civilization, and makes a great contribution to human society, Especially since the moden times, the western countries’ political and economic science cultures have been in the front of the modernization,which has become the model system of a great number of countries’ as a reference.Its influence spreads all over the world.Those countries,including the modern China, so it’s necessary to study it hard and learn from it. And the superiority of the western political thoughts and the good citizen virtue of ancient Greek city-state can not be seprated.Citizen morality is a special regulation that a certain society and class put forward to the humans to help deal with the relationship between individuals and that of individuals and society. For thousands of years,the citizen moral problem has been a concern of people. In the contemporary, citizen morality is the spiritual safeguard for one country to remain its own character. It’s very important to keep politic and society stable,promote democracy and legal system construction raise the national competitiveness and so on. As early as two thousand years ago, Aristotle’s citizens view,belonging to his theory of virtue is an important part of the theory of citizens,which is assembeled in his book,"the politics.In the contemporary society of our country,there are some problems in citizen moral.For instance, the moral norms of some fields are out of Money worship, hedonism and individualism and other bad thoughts tendency, abusing power for personal gain, corruption is still spreading in some area.Eroticism, gambling and toxicity, the old society ugly phenomena appears again.Some people have a vague idea of socialism outlook on life and values understanding, so it is a necessity that we try hard to absorb the quintessence of citizen’s to benefit the moral construction of our citizens’ virtue and enhance the happiness index of our citizens.Even though Aristotle has been passed away for more than two thousand years, some of his thoughts still have a profound influence on us and can be regarded as references. In the construction of our modernization, the four great virtues:the sense of responsibility, brave, self-discipline, justice are advocated as a way to cultivate qualified citizens and the essence of western civilization, including freedom, democracy, and inviolable private property.Constitution,rights protection,social justice maintenance and so on,all of these can not be divided.The study of his citizens moral thoughts will contribute a lot to cultivating our citizen consciousness, improving citizens’ morality,keeping the national political and social stability, promoting democracy and legal system construction, raising the national competitiveness and so on. This paper attempts to study Aristotle’s citizen moral ideas as the beginning to reveal the essence and development course of citizen morality, trying to provide important theoretical support for our country citizen moral construction, improve our Chinese citizen moral quality, and establish a good citizen moral culture lays an important theoretical basis.