Historical evolution of morality?

Morality has its origin in practice, and morality belongs to the category of ethics, whose subject matter is human activity or practice, and whose purpose is human happiness. Practices or activities originate in desire, not reason. Reason can only distinguish between right and wrong without causing any activity, desire is the opposite, it can cause activity but cannot distinguish between right and wrong.

Morality in slave society, slavery was the first class social form in human history. Morality in slave society is also the first type of class morality in the history of human moral development.

Morality in feudal society, the feudal system was established on the ruins of the collapse of slavery, giving rise to the second type of class morality in the history of human moral development - morality in feudal society.

Morality in capitalist society, at the end of feudal society, the bourgeoisie and its opposite, the proletariat, formed and grew, and the capitalist system replaced the feudal system. This process was also the process by which the morality of the bourgeoisie class prevailed over the morality of the feudal landlord class.

The bourgeoisie appealed directly to the principle of egoism from the point of view that human nature is selfish. The moral principle of bourgeois egoism is manifested in the moral consciousness, which is the endless desire to hunt for wealth and pursue power.

Expanded:

Morality is the habit of making good choices, and, like archery has a target, i.e. human happiness, and so also like archery, it needs to be adapted and improved in practice to hit it according to the senses. Therefore, it is not a fallacy to say that the rule of morality is feeling when it is not.

The rule of morality is freedom, which in turn is defined as neither oppressing nor being oppressed. This is half correct and half incorrect. For the happiness of the same people is the same, and the happiness of different people is different.

Generalizing about happiness is a sign of intellectual immaturity. There is diversity in people's personalities; some people love to think, others love to play sports. Even the same person may have different personalities as a child and as an adult. Therefore, happiness and joy also have diversity. Since happiness cannot be generalized for different people, corresponding morality cannot be generalized.

If the objects are all free men, then neither to oppress nor to be oppressed is indeed a morality, but if one of the objects is a free man and the other a slave, then morality is the oppression of one by the other. One cannot force the same people to follow different morals, nor can one force different people to follow the same morals.

Specifically, one cannot force the ancients to follow the morals of the present, nor can one force a child to follow the morals of an adult, nor can one force a woman to follow the morals of a man, nor can one force the poor to follow the morals of the rich, nor can one force a developing country to follow the morals of a developed country.

This statement is also true in reverse; one cannot force present-day people to follow the morals of the ancients, nor adults to follow the morals of children, nor men to follow the morals of women, nor the rich to follow the morals of the poor, nor the developed countries to follow the morals of the developing countries.

People's Daily Online - The Historical Evolution of Chinese Ideas of "Dao" and "Virtue"

Baidu Encyclopedia - Morality