Comparison And Reflection Of Ethical Value Orientation Of Chinese And Western Traditional Women

Value tendency of traditional ethics on women is the product of private ownership in traditional society and patriarchy social structure. It took shape and developed when people reacted on challenges from contradictories of natural environment, social life and interpersonal relationship. Meanwhile, value tendency of traditional ethics on women has constituted a realistic cultural background in construction of modern ethics on women. The article expounds systematically basic value principles, basic features, basic content of value tendency, its historical significance and theoretical defects, relationship between value tendency of traditional and modern ethics on women.Private ownership in traditional society and patriarchy social structure make people mistake physiological difference in sex for social difference, therefore, the basic value principles of man senior and woman inferior , man working outside and woman doing housework inside and duties established by marriage have formed in traditional ethics on women. From the basic value principle of traditional ethics on women. There are two basic features about it: One is that it insists on maintaining rights of man and father. The other one is that it mainly regulates female family and interpersonal relationship in its content. Because of the two basic features of sino - west traditional ethics on women, the basic content of value tendency of sino - west traditional ethics on women is basically i-dentical, which is consistent with the viewpoint expressed by Engles in the book of Origin of family, private ownership and country. At the same time, both of them are different from thoery forms and particulars of content for their difference in regional environment, cultural traditionand system of property right.Value tendency of traditional ethics on women has formed and developed when people reacted on challenges from contradictories of natural environment, social life and interpersonal relationship, therefore, value tendency of traditional ethics on women possesses its historical active significance. Firstly, it symbols mature of mankind ethics thinking and make contributions for development of mankind cultural and ideological progress. Secondly, it realizes adjustment of family and social order, by the means of controlling female mind and flesh at the cost of female personality. Thirdly,it modles a large amount of excellent female merit in way of double criterion. Although value tendency of traditional ethics on women is the product of conformation to history rule, because its basic content maintains private ownership and patriarchy, "which determines that the basic content of value tendency of traditional ethics on women has inevitablly theoretical defects. The theoretical defects lie in double value criterion of value tendency of traditional ethics on women. In other words, it values and restrains male and female in traditional society with thoroughly different value criterion.From the value tendency of modern ethics on women, especially value tendency of socialist ethics on women, the basic contents of value tendency of traditional and modern ethics on women are both contradictory and unifiable. Their contradictions appear: One is that their aims in value tendency are quite different. The former maintains rights and profits of male only. The latter maintains equality between male and female and protects rights and profits of female. The other one is that some inclinations from basic content of value tendency of traditional ethics on women is inconsistent to the demands of value tendency of modern ethics on women. However, though value tendency of modern and traditionalethics on women are inconsistent, we should notice that both of them are interlinked. The unification reveals: Firstly, value tendency of traditional ethics on women laying stress on female standard is identical to objective demand of female standard of socialist ethics. Secondly, keeping chastity and virginity advocated by socialist ethics is also identical to single - minded...