The specific content of "eight virtues"

The eight core virtues are: loyalty, filial piety, honesty, faithfulness, courtesy, righteousness, honesty and shame, which are intended to inherit the traditional Chinese virtues, endow them with new connotations of the times and reflect the new value of national vitality. During the ten years' practice of "Chinese Virtue" education experiment, we have gradually discovered eight virtues of "loyalty, filial piety, honesty, faithfulness, courtesy, righteousness, honesty and shame" by determining the moral system and compiling teaching materials, which are the important basis for constructing the moral system of today's schools. This "Eight Virtues" is not only a traditional Chinese virtue handed down from generation to generation by the Chinese nation for 5,000 years, but also constantly created, updated and developed. Moreover, in today's social life, in the "student code" of universities, primary and secondary schools, in the civic convention, in the professional ethics of all walks of life, in the way of managing families, developing industries and governing the country, the national spirit is permeated. In order to construct the traditional moral system of schools and help teachers and educators who participate in educational experiments to understand the historical evolution of "eight virtues"; Grasp and distinguish the duality of the essence and dross of "eight virtues"; Understand the historical value of "eight virtues"; On the response of "eight virtues" to moral problems in modern society: mastering the path of improving one's moral cultivation. The research group spent a year in 1999, organized eight doctors of liberal arts to write, and published the series "Popular Morality" by Hongqi Publishing House in early 2000. Every doctor writes one of them. These eight books are:

Loyalty-the responsibility of serving the country.

Filial piety-endless love

Honesty-the quality of seeking truth and being pragmatic

Faith-the basic point of starting a business.

Rite-the norm of interpersonal civilization

Justice-a guide to the right path on earth

Integrity-the foundation of innocence and justice

Shame-the bottom line of being a man

According to the different functions of each virtue, these eight virtues can be roughly divided into four levels:

First, "righteousness" and "loyalty"

"Righteousness"-the guide, moral soul, moral spiritual realm and value orientation of the right path in the world;

"Loyalty"-the responsibility of serving the country, is the moral core, moral consciousness and value goal;

Second, "sincerity" and "faith"

"Honesty"-the quality of seeking truth and being pragmatic, is a moral quality, a moral personality requirement and economic value;

"Faith"-the basic point of starting a business is moral quality, moral personality requirements and economic value;

Third, "courtesy" and "sincerity"

"Rite"-the norm of interpersonal civilization, is moral quality, moral external expression and civilized value;

"Honesty"-the basis of innocence and righteousness, is moral conscience, moral external performance and political value;

Fourth, "filial piety" and "shame"

"Filial piety"-endless love is moral emotion, the foundation of moral emotion and the source of value;

Shame, the bottom line of people, is moral psychology, the basis of moral psychology and the choice of value.

This "eight virtues" covers the moral relationship among individuals, families and society from the social, economic and political fields. If a China person can possess these eight qualities to varying degrees, he is a moral person, not only will he not lag behind the times, but will become a strong man in the new century. By establishing this moral standard system, the whole country can gradually build a "state of etiquette" in the new century.