On The Morality Transformation In Pre-Qin Period

Morality life in Pre-Qin period is the source of Chinese traditional morality life and ethic spirit. Therefore, the description of morality life in Pre-Qin period and the analysis on the inherent mechanism and impetus of it will directly affect people's self-value evaluation as well as their position in history. The development of morality life in Pre-Qin period experienced a long process. Morality life, together with other forms of social life in this period constitutes an integrated system. And the transformation of morality life is just the result of the interaction among these factors. The transformation of morality life is embodied in the generation and changes of every moral concepts; in the subject and object that each moral category identified and standardized, in the theoretical point of every set of morality thought, etc. In different historical period, morality life shows dissimilar requirement, content, features and characteristics. And simultaneously, all these changes and differences have some continuous property and internal logical relations. It holds a relatively unified value orientation.Undoubtedly, in this self-regulation system, patriarchal clan system, which represents the basic structure of society and the key value of operational mechanism, has a profound influence on morality life in Pre-Qin period. The development of patriarchal clan system determined the transformation of morality life. And at the same time, the different contents of dissimilar moral concepts embody and in some degree accelerate the transformation of patriarchal clan system in history process. The transformation of social ethic relations that have close relation with patriarchal system is the more direct factor affects the transformation of morality life in Pre-Qin period. Social ethic relations represent the subject and object of morality life. The two sides of the specific social ethic relations have put forward the presentation and establishment of every moral concept and norm. Hence, probing the relationship between patriarchal clans system and social ethic relations has been the foundation and prerequisite of the research on the shaping and transforming of morality life in Pre-Qin period.