Historical mirror image of official morality

The history of mankind shows that official morality is crucial to political and social development, national security and people's happiness. All great people and outstanding people pay attention to, advocate and practice the official morality required by society. In ancient Greece, Socrates and Plato both advocated that the king should be ruled by a philosopher, that is, the "king of philosophy", and strongly advocated "saint politics".

Tacitus, an ancient Roman historian and long-term consul and tribune, once asserted: "When a government or department loses its credibility, whether it is telling the truth or telling lies, doing good or bad things, it will be considered as telling lies and doing bad things." Confucius advocated "benevolent politics" and "moral politics" all his life, and insisted on spreading "ruling the country by virtue". Confucius Ceng Yun: "Politicians are just; Zi Shuai is right, who dares to be wrong? " , and cloud: "Its body is right, and it cannot be made; His body is not right, although he does not obey. "

Zhuge Liang, a famous politician in the Three Kingdoms period, also said: "Being a man must be correct first, and then carrying out orders."

Mao Zedong taught party member and the broad masses of cadres to be "noble people, pure people, moral people, people who are free from vulgar tastes and beneficial to the people", thus Marxist and modernizing the traditional official morality, leaving a rich and creative socialist official morality thought.