Liang Qichao's Public Morality And Its Contemporary Inspiration

Liang Qichao,as a famous enlightenment thinker,educator,politician,and writer in modern Chinese history,not only enriches the moral ethics of modern China,but also has a great value in the construction of modern society and the ideal personality of the people.In order to save the national crisis and explore national outlets in modern China,Liang Qichao and other advanced Chinese people opened their eyes to the world and began to learn from Western advanced culture.By comparing Chinese and Western cultures,Liang Qichao proposed that “to reform our country,we must first reform our people”,and to be a new people we must cultivate the public morals.He attached great importance to the discussion of public morality,and raised the issue of public morality to the height of saving the nation and patriotism.Liang Qichao's idea of public morality was based on the combination of Chinese and Western thoughts.He was the earliest thinker who divided morality into public morality and private morality and explored the relationship between public morality and private morality.He regards public morality as “the virtue of gregariousness” and believes that public morality is the spiritual bridge of "the reason why the crowd is the group and the state is the country".The purpose and soul of Liang Qichao's thoughts on morality lies in the benefit group.The main items of his morality include national thought,gregariousness,aggressive spirit,freedom,sanctions,rights,and obligations.Liang Qichao stated that in order to cultivate the public morals of the people,we must attach importance to the cultivation of the public's national ideology,group ideas,enterprising and adventurous spirit,freedom,sanctions,rights,and obligations.Only in this way,national talents will form a sound and complete personality,and the country will emerge from crisis,prosperity,and stability.Cultivating public ethics and bringing up newcomers is a prescription prescribed by Liang Qichao to save the country and the people,and its influence is far-reaching.Of course,there are also limitations and deficiencies in his public morality: for example,Liang Qichao's public morality has an idealistic path,and his morality has an imbalance between “group profit” and “private interest”.However,if we value Liang Qichao's public morality,we can still find that it has positive significance and important enlightenment to our patriotic education and the construction of socialist core values: such as enlightenment to improve the moral quality of citizens,and to bea nation and society.People with a sense of responsibility and obligation;enlighten us to pay attention to moral construction in various fields and become a person obedient to the law and a sense of self-government;enlighten us to cultivate citizens' patriotism and collectivism,and to be people with national and beneficial ideas;Enlightenment In the process of constructing the moral education system,we will inherit and innovate the traditional moral education culture of China,and draw lessons from the moral education experience of advanced countries.