Moral Relativism:A Vague World With Freedom And Confusion

Moral construction is an important part in the pursuit of social development and overall progress.It is also of great significance for cultivating individual moral qualities,improving the moral quality of the nation,and raising the moral and cultural standard of the entire society.The drastic changes have brought many psychological and spiritual pressures and annoyances to people in the modern world and the rapid development of economic globalization,while it also brings material satisfaction and free choice for humankind.The interests and competition of modern material civilization sustain the relationship between human beings,but it has led to the decline of modern humanistic spirit and the expansion of self-centrism.The traditional moral evaluation system collapses amid rapid differentiation of moral consciousness and moral practice,and it is a state of negative in the entire social moral environment.Moral relativism emerge as a significant trend that affect people's moral cognition and moral practice.Its continued prevalence has brought people into a morally ambiguous world.Therefore,scientific cognition and abandonment of moral relativism have become an immediate need.Although the Marxist moral concept was born in western European society with the rise of modern capitalism,it can still be used as a theoretical tool to analyze and criticize the contemporary social morality.According to the historical materialism method of understanding,Marxism believes that the origin and development of morality are all reflections of specific social and economic relations.Morality embodies the dialectical unity of subjectivity and objectiveness,relative and absolute,and scientifically explains the great prospects of Communism moral ideology.The emergence of moral relativism has historical inevitability,and its essence and function is most vividly expressed in the rapidly developing modern society.The Marxist moral concept must be viewed as a theoretical resource as we seek to analyze and revise the issue of moral relativism in a specific historical context.We must conduct a systematic analysis of the origins,manifestations,and roles of moral relativism.Only in this way can we find a reliable way to curb the proliferation of moral relativism,so as to promote the realization of modern society's moral consensus and social solidarity.Moral cultivation and moral consensus are the needs of human beings in the social community.They not only require individuals to have the desire and pursuit of good and justice,but also have the fear of the right to life and equality of life.Compared to other paths that transcend moral relativism,Marxist moral concepts can provide strong theoretical support in overcoming the difficulties of moral relativism.In the context of contemporary Chinese moral construction,the promotion of socialist core values and concepts of honor and disgrace is the concrete application and innovation of Marxist ethics.