What is the development of ethics in the new period?

In the past 30 years of reform and opening up, ethics has experienced a historical process of recovery, development and prosperity. Its achievements are as follows: the formation of three outstanding theoretical achievements in the China of Marxist ethics, the formation and initial development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's ethical value system, the continuous improvement and maturity of Marxist ethics discipline system, the evolution of ethics history from extensive to refined, and the prosperity and development of applied ethics.

With the help of citizen's moral construction and the establishment of socialist core value system, the research team of ethics has been growing and new ideas and theories have emerged. Theoretical research, empirical research and applied research complement each other, initially forming Socialism with Chinese characteristics's ethical code system, forming the latest achievements of China-oriented Marxist ethical thought, and forming the development pattern of China's ethical research. The study of ethical principles has broken through the limitations of a single model and moved towards diversification. Mainstream ethical research and non-mainstream ethical research, which serve the construction of socialist core value system, show a complementary development trend, and ethics has made remarkable achievements in returning to life, opening up the world and taking root in tradition. Tang's Ethics and New Ethics have both made their own contributions to discipline innovation and academic innovation. The special research on the basic theory of ethics has also shown unprecedented prosperity, and a large number of academic monographs have been published in competition, which is dizzying. On Ethical Order by Gao Zhaoming and Li Ping, On Virtue by Chen Genfa, and a number of excellent doctoral and master's theses, such as Intergenerational Dimension of Ethics by Liao Xiaoping and Moral Belief and Self-transcendence by Changling Wei. The study of applied ethics is like a flowing river with countless weather. Under the new situation of deepening reform and opening up, a large number of emerging disciplines such as network ethics, information ethics, bioethics, environmental ethics, tourism ethics, leisure ethics, urban ethics, architectural ethics, engineering ethics, population ethics, reproductive ethics and so on have emerged in competition, greatly expanding the space or scope of ethical research and contributing to the prosperity and development of ethics.

The brilliant achievements of ethical research in the new period are mainly reflected in the following five aspects:

(A) the formation of three outstanding theoretical achievements of Marxist ethics in China.

(B) Socialism with Chinese characteristics's ethical value system has been formed and achieved initial development.

(C) the theoretical construction of ethics discipline system

(D) the overall prosperity of the history of ethical thought

(E) The unprecedented prosperity of applied ethics