How to treat traditional culture and modern social morality

The main body of China's traditional culture is Confucian culture, and its modern value is first manifested in its openness to other cultures. This is a basic prerequisite for the development of China traditional culture and its role in modern society. However, the openness of traditional culture or Confucianism also has its specific significance, that is, it advocates the openness of each individual to the social country in which he lives and emphasizes the individual's sense of participation in the social country. This sense of participation is characterized by paying attention to the practical process of participation itself, rather than overemphasizing the current utilitarian results. Under the influence of this cultural model, people can endure suffering temporarily and work tirelessly, which can be said to be an important cultural driving force for China's modernization.

Under the atmosphere that science has become the orientation of the group and society, accepting and pursuing science at the request of the group has become the real content of moral self-discipline that constrains one's behavior. Self-cultivation and self-cultivation can be transformed into establishing, cultivating and adhering to the yearning and belief in scientific civilization. In a sense, the enthusiasm for science in contemporary China is unprecedented, which to some extent reflects the positive promotion and encouragement of ethics to this trend. Moreover, China's traditional culture advocates change. The Book of Changes says: "If you are poor, you will change, and if you change, you will get through, and the general rules will last for a long time." It can be said that the most outstanding modern value of China culture is that it strongly advocates the spirit of seeking development through change. It can be said that in the modernization practice of China's reform and opening up, the interaction between change and development is the most prominent.

As far as the value of life is concerned, traditional culture highlights the importance of people's spiritual needs. When fish (life) and bear's paw (morality) cannot have both, it becomes people's conscious choice to sacrifice life for righteousness. Such "righteousness" has shaped the indomitable national spirit and maintained the endless cultural tradition. But traditional culture has not ignored the value of material life. Filial piety, which is based on the inheritance of material life, attaches importance to the moral consciousness carried in life and the spread and promotion of knowledge of nature, and encourages people to work hard, whether for fame or fame. Although the conscious pursuit of "behavior" itself became "human desire" after the Song and Ming Dynasties, as an internal dynamic mechanism, it actually dominated people's daily life practice and value pursuit. Because of this, the German thinker Max? Weber's view that Confucianism has no chance to modernize is actually inappropriate.

The core category of China culture and the ultimate value ideal pursued by China people are "listening to the Tao". Confucius said, "Listen in the morning and die at night." The idea of "praising one yin and one yang" put forward in the classic Zhouyi, which is highly respected by Confucianism and Taoism, is the most comprehensive and profound reflection of the essence of China traditional culture. It is both traditional and developed for thousands of years. At the same time, it is modern and even compatible with post-modern culture. The Tao formed by the combination of yin and yang is the product of the thinking tradition of "harmony without difference" No matter whether it is yin or yang, any sex itself is not perfect. Imperfection needs to develop in the direction of perfection, which requires the supplement of the opposite sex and the affinity and transformation between externality and self. This can be said to be the most important theoretical basis provided by China traditional culture for the complementarity between China and the West.