Why should honesty be regarded as an important content of socialist core values?

In the traditional culture of China, honesty is the core content of personal personality improvement and social moral evaluation.

China's traditional culture has always attached importance to the individual's position in social development, but paid more attention to the individual's internal moral cultivation and personality perfection, and paid more attention to rich knowledge and the ability to serve the society and the world, rather than external material accumulation and wealth appreciation. It is moral benevolence rather than materialized interests, and it is the heart of public morality rather than selfish desires. Therefore, the trend of China's social moral values is not individualism based on the pursuit of personal material desires and self-interest, but collectivism based on self-dedication, dedication to the society, loyalty to serving the country and looking at the world. In this kind of moral values, honesty is in a crucial position.

Self-cultivation is the core link of personality perfection. Pursuing personality perfection and moral perfection is one of the core contents of China traditional culture. University embodies the goal and path of personal cultivation and personality perfection in ancient China. The way of university is divided into "three grades and eight orders". The three principles, namely, "to be virtuous, to be close to the people and to be perfect", reveal the goal orientation and ideal state of a gentleman's personality from three aspects, that is, to require individuals to achieve the lofty realm of moral prosperity, ideological renewal, personal personality perfection and social moral perfection through a series of efforts. Eight goals, that is, eight links, that is, "to be honest, upright, upright and level", from the outside to the inside, from things to people, from nature to individuals, from individuals to society, constitute a realistic path to achieve the perfect goal step by step.

Honesty is the fundamental requirement of personal cultivation. Honesty is the internal foundation and fundamental requirement of personal cultivation, and it is the key factor to realize personal personality improvement and moral promotion. Confucius particularly emphasized the important position of honesty in personal cultivation and personality perfection. In his view, benevolence and righteousness are the highest realm of a gentleman's personality, and honesty is the basic way to achieve it. Being honest and close to benevolence and righteousness means "faith is close to righteousness", that is, learning the basic truth of being a man, "making friends and keeping promises." Although I haven't studied, I will call it learning. "In the elaboration of self-cultivation, the university put forward:" Things follow knowledge, knowledge follows sincerity, sincerity follows right, and right follows self-cultivation ". Here, knowing things is the basis for individuals to acquire knowledge and then achieve self-cultivation, while sincerity and integrity are the key links and core connotations of self-cultivation. Zhu clearly pointed out that "those who are sincere should practice themselves first." "Sincerity is not self-deception, but a high degree of self-discipline and self-restraint, so as to achieve" sincerity in China and sincerity in the outside ",consciously suppress evil and promote good, achieve a high degree of inner recognition and consciousness of good, resolutely refuse and consciously resist evil, and pay attention to personal self-restraint rather than external compulsory restraint. Righteousness means that the mind is not biased, excluding materialistic self-interest and all kinds of selfish distractions that affect personal personality improvement and moral promotion, so as to achieve inner goodness and respect for morality and realize self-cultivation In Zhu's view, honesty is the "top priority" of personal cultivation and can never be ignored.

Honesty is the core of social morality and value evaluation. Honesty is the ultimate pursuit of personal morality and the fundamental standard of social moral evaluation. The Doctrine of the Mean points out that "sincerity is heaven" and "sincerity is the end of things, and dishonesty is nothing." In other words, honesty is the true and innocent virtue of saints and the highest moral pursuit goal of people. At the same time, honesty is also the fundamental measure of personal moral realm and the highest standard of social moral evaluation. "Only when the world is sincere can we understand the great classics of the world, establish the foundation of the world, and know the teaching of heaven and earth." Everyone should regard honesty as the inner moral pursuit and the supreme value goal, as Mencius advocated, "be happy against honesty." Belief is a person's basic code of conduct, and it is the fundamental code of interpersonal relationship. Confucius advocated that a person must "keep his word and keep his promise, and his actions will bear fruit", and "a person without faith does not know what he can do". Only by keeping promises can we win the trust of others, gain the trust and support of friends, gain a foothold in interpersonal communication and realize our ideals.

In today's era, honesty is an important content of socialist core values.

The principle of honesty and moral accumulated in traditional culture not only conforms to the social development goal of Marxism on the free and all-round development of human beings, but also becomes an important embodiment of the basic ethics of socialist market economy and the superiority of socialist system, thus forming an important content of socialist core values.

Honesty conforms to the goal of people's free and all-round development. Marx and Engels clearly pointed out in the Manifesto of the Productive Party that instead of bourgeois society, "it will be such a consortium, in which the free development of everyone is the condition for the free development of all people". Here, people's free and all-round development is not only the understanding and transformation of nature, but also the transformation and promotion of society and human spirit, the improvement and perfection of personal morality and personality, and the comprehensive goal of the organic unity of subjectivity and objectivity, nature and society, matter and spirit, culture and morality. In 1857- 1858 Economic Manuscripts, Marx put forward three social formation theories and scientifically discussed three realms of human personality development. The first stage of human development is the stage of personality independence on which people depend directly. People are interdependent and have low ability. The second stage is an independent stage based on people's dependence on things. Although people's ability has improved and their personality is relatively independent, the society is unequal and the development is imperfect. The third stage is the all-round development of individuals and the independence of those who share social wealth. People can master not only the laws of natural and social development, but also the laws of spiritual development. Everyone has achieved a high degree of independent development, improved ability and perfect personality, and realized the all-round liberation of people. Marxist theory of man's free and all-round development has been implemented, developed and perfected in the practice of China's revolution, construction and reform. Mao Zedong clearly put forward the moral realm of "five kinds of people" and the standard of "four haves" in Deng Xiaoping. In these discourses, personality perfection and moral promotion are always an important indicator.

The moral principle of honesty, with special emphasis on honesty and trust in the outside world. On the one hand, we regard inner truth and innocence as internal self-restraint, emphasize the self-discipline development of personal morality, and realize the realm of people's conscious spirit and personality development; On the other hand, honesty and trustworthiness among people are regarded as the basic code of conduct, and harmonious coexistence of society and common development of people are sought. This undoubtedly reflects the inherent requirements of people's free and all-round development, conforms to the goal of people's free and all-round development, and is an important symbol of people's free and all-round development.

Honesty is the basic morality of socialist market economy. Theoretically speaking, the market economy is a trading economy. Different market trading entities trade all kinds of production factors and commodities equally according to market rules. Fair and equal transactions mediated by things are the basic logic of market economy. Contract and law are the external guarantee to maintain fairness and equality, and the moral self-discipline of all kinds of transaction subjects is the internal basis to ensure fairness and equality. Among these moral self-discipline, honesty is a basic principle. Adam Smith, the theoretical originator of modern market economy, highly emphasized "inner man" before putting forward "invisible hand". Before the publication of The Wealth of Nations, he deeply discussed people's conscience and moral sentiments in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, and put forward the concept of "inner man", holding that human rationality, morality and conscience are the moral basis of the possibility of human society and the moral basis and constraint of the existence of the market. A major defect of the capitalist market economy in its development process is that it deviates from the ethical basis of the market economy discussed by Adam Smith, and only pursues private interests and surplus value while ignoring the constraints of moral sentiments, thus falling into an inevitable moral decline and ethical crisis.

The socialist market economy has absorbed the successful experience of the development of the capitalist market economy, and at the same time, it has tried to overcome its serious defects. While giving full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, we should give better play to the macro-control role of the government, organically combine the invisible hand with the visible hand, and make the economy develop on a healthy track. On the other hand, while establishing and perfecting various laws and regulations of market economy, we should attach great importance to the moral restraint of market subjects, construct the basic ethics of socialist market economy, take fair trade as the most important trading criterion, and take honest management as the basic norm of market subjects.

Honesty is an important content of socialist core values. In the great historical process of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, the formation, development and perfection of socialist core values will inevitably inherit and absorb all kinds of outstanding achievements of human civilization, and reflect the advanced nature of the socialist system, the value pursuit of the broad masses under socialist conditions, the basic theory of Marxism and the socialist ideals and beliefs. Correctly handle the relationship between universal civilization and institutional requirements, national culture and the knowledge of all mankind; Fully absorb the excellent cultural traditions of the Chinese nation, reflect the common aspiration and ideal pursuit of the people of China, and reflect the common ideal aspiration and value pursuit of mankind. Therefore, we can neither completely westernize nor completely pan gu, but should base ourselves on and inherit the excellent national cultural traditions, explore and carry forward the essence of traditional excellent values and give them the value of the times, so as to realize the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese culture. Cultivating, constructing and carrying forward the socialist core values is an important content of contemporary China's cultural development and a contemporary extension of China's cultural development logic.

Honesty and morality, as an excellent traditional Chinese culture, has gained a new era connotation under socialist conditions. It emphasizes inner truth and inner moral self-discipline, pays attention to the promotion of personal moral realm and the development of independent spirit, embodies people's free and all-round development and independent personality pursuit under socialist conditions, and is the embodiment of the superiority of socialist system in the development of people's inner spirit; It emphasizes mutual trust, sincerity, equality and friendship between people, and pays attention to the formation of harmonious interpersonal ethics, which embodies the homosexual relationship between people under socialist conditions and is an important embodiment of the superiority of the socialist system in interpersonal relations. It is precisely because of this that honesty is included in the basic content of socialist core values to advocate and carry forward.

In the process of practicing socialist core values, honesty is regarded as the basic follow-up of moral construction.

In the process of building socialist core values, we should enhance the influence of honesty and morality in people's production and life from the perspective of combining personal identity with social atmosphere, internal consciousness with external norms, and self-discipline with heteronomy.

Improve the individual's independent consciousness of practicing honesty and morality, and make people unwilling to be dishonest. Everyone should strengthen moral self-discipline under the circumstances of diversified interests and numerous temptations, truly regard honesty and morality as an individual's conscious pursuit, consciously enhance personal moral sentiment, improve personal personality, straighten out the relationship between individuals and society, individuals and others, restrain and examine themselves with a prudent and independent spirit, and turn the pursuit of honesty and morality into an internal driving force to enhance personal moral realm, which runs through personal daily life and work practice.

Form a social and cultural atmosphere of practicing honesty and morality, and people can't help but be honest. Intensify the propaganda of honesty culture, so that honesty and morality are deeply rooted in people's hearts and become the collective recognition of the whole society, the ideological understanding of the broad masses of the people and the collective will of the whole Chinese nation; Strengthen the propaganda of honesty and moral model, establish a national ideology and ideological and cultural system to encourage and carry forward honesty, and hold honesty and cultural ceremonies to make honesty and moral concrete and ritualized; Strengthen the positive guidance and public welfare propaganda of honesty and morality, form a social atmosphere of advocating honesty and practicing honesty, and make honesty and morality an inherent factor in people's lives and lifestyles.

Strengthen the legal norms of practicing honesty and morality, so that people dare not be dishonest. For those behaviors and individuals who violate honesty and morality, we should criticize and correct them, and strengthen normative constraints and institutional control; For those who pursue personal interests, seriously deviate from honesty and morality, and bring harm to others and society, they need legal sanctions to make them bear corresponding legal and social responsibilities.