On The Value Of Faith For Social Order

Order is one of the basic conditions of social existence and development, good social order is the goal human being pursues. To maintain good social order, not only depends on law, system, criterion and other mandatory regulations, but also needs to take the thinking of value as the intrinsic bond. And faith as the core of value system necessarily has great significance for the maintenance of social order. This thesis on the philosophy level examines the positive value of faith in keeping the social order.It first ascertains the relative concepts of social order and faith, so as to pave the way for the later discussion. Then from the relationship of faith and all the elements of social order, it analyses the meaning and value of faith to social order. Last, it analyses the causes and roots of the current crisis of faith in Chinese society, illuminates in the current time the necessity and possibility of constructing rational faith, and dissertates the principles to be followed. In detail, this paper constitutes seven parts:The introduction. It first educes the problem to describe the origin and significance of this study and clarify the significant impact and value of faith to the modern social order. Then it cards the research status which concerns the problem of faith and social order. In conclusion, it gives an introduction to the ideas, methods and originality of this paper.The chapter is about the provision of faith. It dissertate the connotation of faith from the point of view of subject, object, psychology and epistemology. On this basis, it illuminates the characteristics of credibleness, practicality, transcendence, etc. And it also discusses the ultimate causes and the social realistic reasons, which faith exists for; clarifies some misunderstanding of faith.The second chapter is about the provision of social order and its relationship with faith. It discusses the nature of the social order in detail, and points out the main elements of the social order:first, subject, that is the human being forms the social order and society; second, social system which maintains the social order as its external rules, the "hard" means; third, social value which maintains social order as its soul, the "soft" means. "One subject, two means" together indispensably constitute the orderly operation of the social order. On the basis of analyzing the relationship between social order and religion on human history, it discusses the relationship between social order and faith by using Marxist dialectics:when faith fits the relation of production, it will work as the bond of social order; if not, it will become the force which change or demolish the social order.The third chapter is about the value of faith to the subject of social order. Mainly from the relationship between faith and the subjective elements of social order, it explains the value of social order. First, from the aspects of the subject's need to faith, it's one of the ways of human existence; meets the needs of metaphysics and the needs of spiritual homeland; gives life meaning; plays a strong cohesion role in enhancing the community which exists not only among individuals, but also social organizations, nations. Then it discusses the social order when the social subjects have faith and vice versa, also from both positive and negative aspects discusses the great value of the social subjects under faith to the social order.The fourth chapter probes into the importance of faith to the social order from the relationship of faith and value. This chapter clarifies the relationship between morality and faith, which have the homology factors by origin. On the development of history, faith gives moral both the content and authority. Faith is the rule which makes human being comply with the social order from passiveness to activeness, pushes the evolution and development of morals, provides the ontological basis to morals, gives strength to it, also makes moral subject more stable and firm adhere to certain morality. Then it introduces the limitations of law, legislation; legal norms can not fully meet the uncertain objective fact; legal workers whose subjective world and objective reality can not be completely consistent; legal language and the limited scope of application. Finally, it expounds faith's supplement to the limitation of law:faith gives reasonable basis and regulation to law, strengthens human being's compliance with the law, and provides the ultimate value judgments to the law.The fifth chapter is about the significance of faith to the social order. This chapter discusses the value expression of faith itself, that is, where the value of faith, self-awareness and self-extrasensory come from is the source of value of faith. The pursuit of the ultimate goal and concern is the driving force to the value of faith. And it illuminates faith's core value in the value system and faith is the premise of evaluation criteria about value, also provides the highest value criterion.The sixth chapter is about the current crisis of faith in Chinese society and the reconstruction of it. This chapter analyses the causes and roots of the current crisis of faith in Chinese society, on this basis it explains the contemporary Chinese society faith which is in dire need of constructing it, then illuminates in modern China the necessity and possibility of constructing noble faith and the principles to be followed:revivification of the essence of culture; combination of the characteristics of time spirit and ethical character; ultimate thoughts on the humanism basis; with Marxism and Communism belief as the core; on the height of faith constructs the core value system; keeps sense with the construction of faith.