The Ethical Thought Of Modern Neo-Confucianism And Modern Moral Construction

The ethical thought of Modern Neo-Confucianism was established when the western influence was extending to the east, the traditional values were decomposed and Chinese traditional cultures were on the decline. The ethical thought of Modern Neo-Confucianism which was based on traditional Confucianism tried to combine western ethical theories.The ethical thought of Modern Neo-Confucianism is extensive, combining the expounding and advocating of traditional ethic, the retrospection of modern ethic and the restoration of new ethic. It is based on tradition while facing the world and the future and it is an important part in modern ethnics. To sum up and explore the ethical thought of Modern Neo-Confucianism from the perspective of 21 century is helpful to the future development of the ethical thought of Modern Neo-Confucianism and more helpful for us to establish socialism moral construction with Chinese characteristics.The establishment of Chinese modern moral construction is establishing itself in the critical inheritance of the essence of traditional ethical culture representative of Confucianism, drawing on the useful thought of Modern New-Confucianism, broadly assimilating the advantages of human ethical culture. So the thesis tries to excavate the ethical thought of Modern New-Confucianism on the basis of which it tries to explore the implication useful to modern moral construction and propose some hypothesis on the construction of modern moral construct theory from the implications.The whole thesis is divided into three parts.In the first part, the thesis tries to excavate the ethical thought of the Modern Neo-Confucianism. Firstly, the definition of Modern Neo-Confucianism is specified. Secondly, the forming history background is analyzed. Lastly, the basic contents are excavated and induced from three aspects: the restoration of moral idealism, the excavation of"returning to the nature and exploring the new"of ethic and the proposal of new ethic thoughts.In the second part, the relationship between the ethical thought of Modern Neo-Confucianism and modern moral construction is discussed. Firstly, the thesis analyzes and evaluates the modern social moral crisis, thinking that the lack of modern social morals in a great degree is due to the low efficiency of moral construction. Secondly,The thesis excavates some implications of Modern Neo-Confucianism on modern moral construction: modern moral construction needs moderating scientific spirit and humane spirit, paying attention to humanism spirit; moral solicitude,realizating moral"why to be"; excavating universal morals, reaching consistent viewpoint of global ethics; setting the person's moral subject, emphasizing the moral experiencing way. Finally, the influence of the ethical thought of Modern Neo-Confucianism on practice is discussed,The influence on practice show that Modern Neo-Confucianism has far-reaching impact on the times and the modern value.In the third part, the thesis puts forward some assumptions which are based on the implications of Modern Neo-Confucianism on modern moral construction. Firstly, the principals are put forward: the unity of era and tradition;the ideal and reality; nationality and internationalism. Secondly, the assumptions on the construction of modern moral construct theory are put forward from four aspects: treating traditional ethical cultures correctly, assimilating the essence of anthropic ethical first; setting the values system of modern moral; expanding new way of thinking of the moral construction"based on human beings"; realizing the unification of idealism and reality, returning to the life foundation.