Socialist Morality And Its Contemporary Practice

As a kind of social ideology, morality is the total norms of behavior used to adjust the relationship between people as well as the relation between individual and society.As a criterion of social public life, it mainly relies on public awareness, traditions, education, habits and the power of beliefs to sustain and implement. Morality as an important form of social ideology has great active functions on the development of social politics, economy, culture and other aspects.Since our country took on the socialist road, the overall national strength has enhanced increasingly, especially the rapid development of economic construction and significant improvement of people’s living conditions. But with the growth of economy,people’s moral values have greatly changed causing moral anomie problems such as the diversification of values, extreme self-interest, hedonism and money worship. The reason for these phenomena is that china is in a critical period of transition, the national value concept suffers unprecedentedly impact, which results in the blur of dispute ideas along with the transformation, the unclearness of moral evaluation standard and the disorder of value orientations. If not to solve these problems timely and effectively, they will affect the construction and development on our politics, economy, and culture. Eventually they will block our way to the construction of socialist core value system, the construction of a harmonious society and the realization of the Chinese dream.In this situation, the current priority is to stand in the height of the Times to simply sort out modern and contemporary western moral values, and make clear its evolution and development’s law of moral values. Thus, it leads to the high eat stage of its development – communist morality.Our country is the primary stage of communism at present, and the urgently solved problem now is the building of people’s right morality under socialist system. To solve this problem, the first thing we have to know is the connotation of the socialist moral concepts, its core contents and its principles. Only we know well these core contents and normative moral value system leading us to communism from socialism. And then it can make people consciously regulate their activities so as to promote the healthy development of our economy, politics and culture to jointly build a harmonious socialist society and to achieve Chinese dream. Therefore the deep and comprehensive study of socialist morality not only has important theoretical significance but also has for-reaching practical significance.The thesis consists of four parts in the following in addition to introduction and conclusion.The first chapter makes a clear distinction of moral rationalism and irrationalism morality in ethical field. And it also introduces other moral rationalism paradigm in detail besides the introduction of the communist morality, including the egoism, utilitarianism for the benefit of most people, the motivation theory highlighting kindness and the pragmatism emphasizing combination with ten situation, the moral paradigm of irrationalism on the basis of the emotional and social habits, and the moral paradigm based on personal wills and power. This part expounds the formation of various moral paradigms respectively, their basic connotation, contributions and limitations.Chapter two discusses different stages of the evolution and development history as shown in the following.The first stage indicates that moral values based on the natural economy which is called simple moral values short for.The second stage defines values on the dependence object is called the period of class moral values.The third stage is the period of communist morality taking the free and comprehensive development of man as it’s the foundation named the period of communist morality.Chapter three systematically elaborates socialist morality by defining that the socialist morality takes the “five loves” that is to love motherland, love people, love science,and love socialism as well as “eight honors,eight disgraces” put forward by Xi Jinping as connotation. And socialist morality takes comprehensive practice of collectivism as its core and it takes the fair and just principle as main contents.Chapter four proposes the author’s views on how to perfect the socialist morality from economy, education and innovation practice, making it able to effectively play a role in our socialist morality.