What is the importance of understanding honesty?

Honesty is a moral category, that is, treating people sincerely and honestly, stressing credibility, keeping promises, keeping promises, keeping promises and keeping promises. Its interpretation in Shuo Wen Jie Zi is "sincerity, faithfulness" and "faithfulness, sincerity". It can be seen that the original meaning of honesty is honesty, sincerity, trustworthiness and trustworthiness.

1. Honesty is the fulcrum to support social morality. Honesty is one of the important contents of Chinese traditional moral culture. "Honesty is the knot of the world" means honesty, which is the key to the code of conduct in the world. In the traditional Confucian ethics of our country, honesty is regarded as the condition of governing the country and the world and an important moral norm that must be observed. Ancient sages and philosophers have many explanations for honesty, such as Confucius' saying that "people believe in their deeds", "people have died since ancient times without faith", "people don't know what they can do without faith" and "people stand with sincerity"; Mencius' theory of honesty: "Those who are sincere but don't move have nothing; If you are dishonest, no one can move "; Xunzi thought that "cultivating the mind is not good at sincerity"; Mozi said: "Without strong will, there is no wisdom, and those who don't believe in will will fail. "Laozi regards honesty as an important criterion of life behavior." It is less trustworthy to make a promise, but it is more difficult to be light "; Zhuangzi also attaches great importance to honesty, "true, sincere to also. Zhuangzi regards "authenticity" as the ultimate of sincerity, which is not refined, sincere and touching, and promotes sincerity to a new height; Han Feizi believes that "cleverness is not as good as sincerity".

In a word, ancient sages and philosophers praised honesty as a noble virtue, which vividly showed the value and position of honesty in the eyes of China people. Since ancient times, people have attached so much importance to the principle of honesty and credit because honesty and credit are the basic moral norms that should be followed in the relationship between people. Without honesty, there is no morality. Therefore, honesty is the fulcrum to support social morality.

Second, honesty is the legal norm. The moral principle of good faith gradually rises to the legal principle. It started from Roman law and was later inherited and developed by important civil laws in legal history, such as French civil law, German civil law and Swiss civil law. For example, Article 2 of the General Principles of the Swiss Civil Code stipulates: "Everyone must honestly exercise his rights and fulfill his obligations."

Honesty and credit is also an important basic principle of China's current laws, which are clearly stipulated in the General Principles of Civil Law, Contract Law and Consumer Protection Law. Because of its wide scope of application, it plays a guiding and commanding role in other legal principles, so it is also called "imperial law". It can be seen that "honesty and credit" is not a general moral principle. When honesty and credit become a legal norm, violating it will bear legal responsibility or unfavorable legal consequences. The legal consequences may be property, personal, civil, administrative and even criminal. Therefore, honesty is the fulcrum to support social laws and the morality of legal norms.

Third, honesty is the way to govern the country. Honesty is the government, which can win the trust of the people, so that the government can be harmonious. If you break your word, hide your eyes and ears, and practise fraud, there will be no social stability. In ancient times, there was a crime of deceiving the monarch, which not only offended dignity, but also misled decision-making and brought disaster to the country and the people. Nor can it "dominate the market", so there is a saying that "water can carry a boat and also overturn it". In ancient China, there were many stories about Shang Yang's "taking a big tree to catch the wind, believing it as true", and there were also bonfire princes who didn't pay attention to honesty and ate their own fruit. Ancient thinkers in China regarded honesty as one of the main means to rule the world, and Wei Zhi in Tang Dynasty described honesty as "the outline of a country". This shows the importance of honesty.

At present, the "ruling the country by virtue" put forward by the Party and the country is the embodiment of clean politics, and it is also the inheritance and development of China's excellent political thought. Implementing "ruling the country by virtue", implementing the "Implementation Outline of Citizen Moral Construction" and advocating the spiritual quality of honesty and trustworthiness in the whole society are the inheritance of fine traditions and the requirements of the times.

Fourth, honesty is the foundation of the industry. Honesty is the way to be a man, the foundation of doing things and the basis of mutual trust between people. Speaking of credibility and keeping promises is a constraint and requirement for oneself, and also a hope and requirement for outsiders. If an employee can't be honest and trustworthy, then the social groups or economic entities he represents can't gain people's trust, can't have economic exchanges with society, or lack appeal and responsiveness to society. Therefore, honesty and trustworthiness is not only a social morality, but also a professional ethics that any employee must abide by.

As a professional ethics, honesty and trustworthiness, for an industry, its basic function is to establish a good reputation and a trustworthy industry image. It reflects that the society recognized the value of an industry in the past professional activities, thus affecting the position and role of the industry in future activities. "People can't stand without faith", for an industry, only by keeping promises and stressing morality can we fundamentally do a good job in the industry brand and establish a good industry image.