Analysis On Moral Survival With The View Of Hidden Rules

Since the 20th Century, the vision of philosophy has begun to shift into the living world so that life philosophy has become an important direction of "the development of philosophy". Problem with regard to human survival is both a key issue concerned by life philosophy and a problem people have paid much attention to at present. To take latent rules as an entry point, this paper is aimed to explore human’s moral living condition under the impact of latent rules, from an ethical perspective, and strive to explore realistic ways to remove the latent rules for people to survive in consistence with morality.Moral survival belongs to human’s survivaland is what human needs in essence. Human’s moral survival ought to facilitate the enrichment of human’s meaning world, facilitate the fulfillment of human’s dignity, and facilitate human to have a full figure of essential strength. Unless meeting the value stipulations in the above three dimensions, human’s survival can be called thesurvival of a real person, and can be called the living state people long and pursue for. Latent rules, as concealed and tacit behavioral rules cruising beyond the formal social rules on the contrary to the social mainstream morals and values, have a connotative value orientation of valuing material gains above justice in a word, which is further embodied as appreciating the private while depreciating the public and harming others to benefit oneself in public-private relations and relations between others and oneself. Such a kind of widely existing behavioral rules regarded as something effective has made a huge difference to people’s behavioral choice, shaped people with corresponding moral psychologies and behavioral habits, and brought about tremendous impacts on human’s moral survival.The impacts of latent rules on human’s moral survival are mainly reflected in three areas. First, in latent rules, self is treated by people as the supreme value standard in life conducts, whereas utilitarianism becomes the ultimate value pursuit for all of people’s conducts and activities, which makes people forget or neglect their duties and obligations for others and the society as well as forsake lofty spiritual pursuit, and which causes the loss of human’s meaning world to a large degree. Next, in latent rules, power and money become a strong force above human, so that people cringe in front of power and prostrate themselves in worship of money, and that people’s dignity and value are debased. Finally, under latent rules, people who are usually faced with choices between various values are prone to distortion in moral personality, specifically manifested as disintegrated personality and servile personality.To ameliorate the circumstance of human’s moral survival in order that human can really survive virtuously, effective ways must be explored positively to remove latent rules. On the social scale, systems should be perfected with efforts and enforced strictly, so that the living space of latent rules can be extruded by system construction; supervision by public opinions should be perfected to expose latent rules under the sunshine with nowhere to hide themselves; fine social graces should be created, by which to expel latent rules. On the individual scale, people ought to consciously raise their moral realm and firm their moral beliefs so as to go consciously against latent rules, so that the individual moral survivability can continuously grow stronger.