How to understand the cultivation of personality in traditional ethical thought

Strictly speaking, "ethics" and "morality" are two concepts and categories. In the history of China's traditional theoretical thought, "ethics" and "morality" were originally expressed in a single word, and their applications were different. "Lun" means generation, class and order; "Reason" means governance, order and regularity; "Tao" means Tao and reason; "Virtue" is the rule of reason and the observance of Tao. In the history of western ethics, it is considered that "ethics" is the unity of subjectivity and objectivity, individual and society, and it is the truth existence of absolute spirit in the objective spiritual stage. "Morality" is a form that embodies ethical spirit and regulates ethical relations. Ethics endows morality with objective content. It can be seen that "ethics" pays attention to society and emphasizes objective relations and order; "Morality" focuses on the individual and emphasizes the internal integrity of subjectivity.

On the level of objective relationship and practice, people often understand "ethics" and "morality" by adjusting their own practice and the formed relationship, and use these two concepts equally. They are established in daily ideological exchanges. Therefore, the words "ethics" and "morality" are sometimes very common, and sometimes they should be strictly distinguished.