The Moral Dilemma Of The Chinese Society In Transition And Remodeling

Centred around the tremendous social change of the "reform and opening-up", based upon the unity of logic and history, this thesis deals with the moral predicament during the present transformational period of Chinese society, makes an in-depth analysis of its causes and a prove into the effective means and approaches to moral construction as well.The moral predicament during the transformational period of the society is prominently manifested in the loss of the standard for moral evaluation, the confusion of value-orientation,The overflow of immoralism ,the weakening of morality-regulating mechanism of the society, and the distortion of moral education, etc. these predicaments seriously hinder the development of socialist material and spiritual civilizations, and its appearance is inseperable from the specific social and historical circumstances of the transformational period; meanwhile, the negative effect resulting from the initially established market economy, cultural changes, cultural mingling and conflict, and the choice of moral subject all contribute to the moral crisis of China presently.According to the main manifestations of the moral predicament and its causes, in accordance with the essential demand of socialist system, for promoting the cause of socialist modernization by way of reform and opening-up, to rebuild the socialist moral value system is the core of moral construction at present. To absorb the essence of traditional and foreign morals and use them for reference, to reinforce the moral legislation, to strengthen the morality-regulating mechanism are the main approaches to moral construction and moral function reinforcement. Only when moral construction is well done can China become a powerful nation in a real sense.