Studies On Reason Of Public Virtue

In traditional society with self-sufficient economy, connections are based on blood relation and geo-social. This situation has been changed now. Existing society is characterized by a highly socialized large-scale producing way, interpersonal basic rule on freedom and equality. The expansion of the public sphere makes the private moral become weaker and the importance of public morality highlighted.There are two modes in researches on ethical: one is the study of moral behavior; the other is the study of moral thinking, that is, the moral reasons behind behavior. My study focused on the latter.There are lots of theoretical analyses on public ethics, as well as investigations. But the investigations focus on the status quo, with the behavior study mode instead of the moral reason study mode.My study explores ways of thinking of young students in public occasion, the relationship of these reasons and moral stage in Kohlberg's theory. DIT (Defining Issues Test made by Rest) is recomposed as a tool to test moral stage. Questionnaire to test the public reasons is designed carefully. The questions (called public reasoning factor) represent the reasons behind behavior. These typical reactions and reasons in the public context come from times of pre-investigation. This paper presents the process of measuring improvement.The impact factors have been divided into three major types: concern for the welfare of self, others (altruism) or public. This paper examined the importance of each factor in youth groups, giving an overall description of each factor and the relationship of them. After testing the stages of moral development of young people, relation between individual moral stages and moral public reasoning factor is studied. We have some discovery and then give discussion about the result, providing suggestions in moral education.