The Dilemma Of Rationalism Moral And Its Solutions

The modern times is the age in which human reason has achieved the unprecedented degree, it’s also the age of modern transformation of human society. People began to face the unprecedented changes; however, many countries have mired into the unprecedented suffering of transformation. No doubt the extremely expansionary of modern rationalism is one of the reasons which cause the transformation suffering. The rationalism have penetrated into many areas of society and produced profound impact, such as political authoritarianism, central planning, and counter-tradition in cultures. Similarly the rationalism will also affect the choice of the moral life form in a society. Generally, people concerned about the content of moral life rather than its form, but the form of moral life determines the moral life actually, therefore, it is imperative for us to seek the causes of moral dilemmas in transformational society and to explore the disembarrass way of the moral dilemmas in the era of market-economy. To some extent, reflection the rationalism moral form is a kind of brand-new thinking path.On the road to modernization, many historical experiences show us that rationalism form of moral life was not temporarily choice, on the contrary it has became the mainstream in social transformation age, until now the situation is not fundamentally changed. The main characteristic of such moral life forms can be summarized as such points:it relies on a perfect moral ideal which is clarified by reason, more specifically, the supreme authority of moral ideal is proved by highly precise and clear logical arguments and the moral education, to a large extent, relies on the indoctrination. But the most central characteristic of this moral form is that some people extremely believe in particular moral content and attempt to create a moral ideal country in the world as the ultimate practical goal. Tracing the sources, we can find the extremely expansionary of rationalism moral is droved by two forces, one is the unprecedentedly inflated of rationalism in modern times, the other force is the catalysis which was produced by the transformation suffering in reality social life. It is these two driving forces that reinforced this moral form, thus, the rationalism moral life form gradually became popular in people’s moral life style.The prospect of ideal moral which is outlined by rationalism is tempting; however, the promise shall never be delivered in the secular world. On the one hand, behind in the rationalism moral itself, there exists the self-contradiction which is not only in theoretical logic but also in moral practice:once the power which promotes the moral education began to expand and alienate, the whole society will lead to the path of dictatorship; and the maintenance of the supremacy of moral authority, which is bound to stir up "Clash of the Titans" in the whole society; the practice in order to achieve moral utopia may gradually evolved into a violent revolution; finally the society didn’t realize the moral ideal, on the contrary, maybe failed into the vanish of the moral ideal. On the other hand, when facing the present market economy era, it cannot provide enough moral resources to echo the development request:under the form of a single, closed and turbulent about the rationalism moral life, the society cannot satisfy the development of the market economy, and then the country will suffer more modern suffering.To get out of this moral dilemma, we need to explore the paths of the specific measures. First, we need to complete a mind shift, only realize that the moral rationalism is not the Gospel of human moral life and get rid of the influence of rationalism thought, can we break away from the moral dilemma. Second, to disenchantment the perfect moral ideal limitedly in the society, we should realize the significance of moral ideal for society and the individual in appropriate range, and achieve the moral restoration veritably. Moreover, we need to separate on moral and political power and then reverse the disturbing trend of politicized moral. Finally, to seek a conjunction form of moral life in the market economy society, which means the moral form should return to our daily life and based on practical experience, we may achieve this through multivariate community organizations. Only through the above efforts, can we finally be out of the current dilemma of moral indifference and spiritual barren.