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What is the main performance of moral progress

The main manifestations of moral progress are: morality plays a more and more important role in social life, and is more and more prominent in promoting social harmony and the comprehensive development of human beings; the scope of moral regulation is constantly expanding, and the means or ways of regulation are constantly enriched and more scientific and reasonable; and the development and progress of morality has become an important yardstick for measuring the degree of civilization of society.

Morality, as a special form of social consciousness, is in the final analysis determined by the economic base and is a reflection of social and economic relations. The nature of socio-economic relations determines the nature of various moral systems; the interests manifested in socio-economic relations determine the basic principles and main norms of various morals.

In a class society, socio-economic relations are mainly manifested in class relations, therefore, morality is also bound to carry class attributes; changes in socio-economic relations inevitably cause changes in morality.

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All human activities are aimed at attaining some kind of happiness; the difference lies in the kind of happiness and in the degree of completeness. The activity of morality, since it is an activity, is certainly no exception to this rule; it is also in pursuit of some kind of happiness.

The human soul may be roughly divided into three parts, namely, the part of nourishment and reproduction, the part of feeling and desire, and the part of mind and reason. Since morality is closely related to practice and activity, it aims at the pursuit of happiness in the feeling and desire part of the human soul.