Study On The Construction Of Confucian Moral Identity In Pre-Qin Dynasty

The essence of moral identity is that individuals consciously abide by social moral regulation and normative guidance in their moral activities,and spontaneously internalize it into the process or state of individual morality in their moral cognition based on their own moral cognitive status in a specific time and space.In a word,moral identity means that individuals have accepted and internalized social moral requirements in their moral activities Process or state.The process of moral identity is indispensable to the realization of an ideological theory,especially moral theory,which has long been the consensus of academic circles.As early as two thousand years ago,Confucianism in Pre-Qin Dynasty had deep insights on this issue,and put it as an intermediary core of combining theory with practice into the construction of the moral system of Pre-Qin Confucianism,which to a certain extent promoted the prominent position of Confucian moral thought in the thousands of years of history of the Chinese nation.Although the pre-Qin Confucianism did not study moral identity as a single issue or system,its moral thought and construction theory shine with the light of moral identity.The construction of an ideological theory can not be separated from the historical background and realistic soil on which it depends for survival.The construction of the moral identity system of Confucianism in Pre-Qin Dynasty is also the same.The construction of its moral identity theory has profound theoretical basis and practical basis.Among them,the theoretical basis includes the inheritance of the idea of fate and patriarchal rituals in the Western Zhou Dynasty and the construction of the theory of moral identity based on the theory of human nature.The realistic basis includes the historical background of the Spring and Autumn Dynasty and the institutional inertia of patriarchal clan system.These two foundations contributed to the construction of Confucian moral identity system in the pre-Qin period.In the practice of moral identity construction,the Confucianists in the pre-Qin Dynasty first answered the question of the construction of moral identity from the perspectives of "harmony between man and nature","unity of human nature" and "mutual connection between oneself and others".Then they constructed the moral theory system from the realistic human relations,formed the moral identity model of "ethics-morality-conduct",and put forward the moral identity of "family,country and the world".The goal is to form the moral identity mechanism of "internal self-cultivation" and "external self-cultivation",and ultimately to achieve the moral identity construction of Confucianism in the pre-Qin period.The construction of Confucian moral identity in Pre-Qin Dynasty still has important reference value for the construction of moral identity in today’s society in such aspects as how to establish the basis of moral identity,set up the goal of moralvalue,form a moral community,and enhance the self-confidence of moral culture.At the same time,due to its historical limitations,there are some shortcomings in the process of building moral identity,such as the purpose of maintaining patriarchal hierarchy,one-sided emphasis on the theory of virtue and humanity,the fixed concept of homeland and country isomorphism,and the over-praise of the authority of ethics,which need us to criticize and absorb dialectically.The issue of moral identity has attracted considerable attention in recent years both at home and abroad,and the perfection and development of ideological theories such as core values,destiny community and Chinese dream under the new normal state are closely related to moral identity.Therefore,the interpretation and Research on the construction of moral identity of Confucianism in Pre-Qin Dynasty is of great value and function.