A 2000-word essay on social morality —— An analysis of moral apathy in contemporary society
Abstract:? Moral indifference? It has become a stubborn disease in the current moral life, which is not only related to personal cultivation, but also detrimental to the long-term stability of society. It is of great practical and moral significance to deeply explore the causes of moral apathy, such as economic system reform, poor social management mechanism and negative western ideological and cultural influence. Aiming at the problem of moral indifference, it is fundamental to build a good social management mechanism and laws and regulations. It is of great practical and moral significance to cultivate love and strengthen civic moral education to solve the problem of moral indifference.
Keywords: moral indifference management mechanism, public moral consciousness
China library classification number: D648 document identification number: ADAI:10.16400/j.cnki.kjdkx.2015.08.0438+0.
Moral indifference in contemporary society
Xuchuanchuan
(School of Politics and Administration, Harbin Normal University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150036)
"Moral indifference" has become a major chronic disease in moral life, which is not only related to personal cultivation, but also not conducive to long-term stability. It is caused by the adjustment of economic structure, the poor social management mechanism and the cultural impact of western negative thoughts. For the problem of moral indifference, it is essential to construct a good social management mechanism and laws and regulations. It is an important aspect to carry out caring and cultivating work and strengthen civic moral education, which is of great practical and moral significance to solve the problem of moral indifference.
Keywords moral indifference; Management mechanism; Sense of right and wrong
In recent years, there have been a series of events about moral indifference in society, such as? Nanjing Peng Yu case Xiaoyueyue incident? There are also indifference in real life, such as administrative indifference, law enforcement indifference and medical indifference, which have seriously affected the moral atmosphere of society and pushed people's moral conscience to the forefront again and again. In view of these incidents, the society has paid great attention, and people can't help asking what is moral indifference, what are the reasons for moral indifference and what are the solutions. It is of great practical and moral significance to study these problems.
1 Moral indifference and its present situation
Moral indifference refers to the phenomenon that people's moral sense is numb and indifferent. In essence, it refers to a specific distorted moral psychology and moral behavior. In daily life, it is reflected in people's indifferent feelings such as doubt and indifference to morality, as well as negative moral attitudes and behaviors such as refusing and shirking moral obligations. In today's China society, moral indifference is mainly manifested in helping others and lack of gratitude. Seeing that others are in trouble, you don't lend a helping hand in time, so that others are in trouble. Like what? Xiaoyueyue incident? Many passers-by pass by but no one cares about children, which is a sign of lack of awareness of helping others; When you get help from others in trouble, you don't thank them in time, but you frame a good person and make the rescued person feel chilling. To sum up, we can see that some of them, for the sake of petty profits, have a cold feeling for morality and are unwilling to assume or even shirk their moral responsibilities and obligations. This is absolutely unacceptable, which is not conducive to one's moral cultivation and corrupts the social atmosphere. We need to fundamentally resist and eliminate it.
2 reasons for moral indifference
The emergence of moral indifference is not caused by one factor, but by many factors. With China's economic system gradually transforming into a more open market economy, people's social relations are gradually saved and competition is gradually intensified. Due to the ineffectiveness of the supervision system and the influence of western negative thoughts, it is easy to cause personal psychological changes and lead to the intensification of moral indifference.
2. 1 Market economic system reform, lack of social morality.
The economic foundation determines the superstructure, and economic relations determine people's moral relations. China is in a period of transition from a traditional planned economy to a more open market economy. This kind of economic system reform has changed the economic relations in people's daily life, and will inevitably affect people's values and interpersonal relationships. In the process, many people have produced? Money worship? Advocating the supremacy of money, taking money as the only criterion to measure people's behavior, ignoring the importance of family and friendship between people, and understanding the relationship between people as naked money relationship. In addition, under the condition of modern market economy, competition has penetrated into all aspects of social life. In the past, people's income was basically at the same level. However, with the change of social and economic system, competition not only stimulates people's own potential, but also brings different income levels, thus causing a new imbalance in people's mentality. (2) The market economy has further widened people's income gap, widened people's psychological distance and made their feelings gradually indifferent. In today's daily life, people will intrigue for positions, opportunities and other interests, have disputes over money, have the psychology and behavior of comparing with others, and make people's feelings gradually indifferent, lacking the quality of helping others and gratitude. With the rapid development of China's modern economy, many aspects of management have fallen behind the times. Therefore, many moral problems are closely related to the inevitable stage of social development in China.
2.2 The social management mechanism is imperfect and the supervision is weak.
Moral indifference is closely related to the imperfect social management mechanism and poor supervision. What have we emphasized in the process of reform and opening up? Grasp both hands, both hands should be hard? But the grasp of economic civilization is very hard, and the grasp of spiritual civilization is relatively weak. In all the times with economic construction as the center, civilization construction and moral construction are often neglected, which makes the system construction corresponding to economic construction relatively backward. For example, the quality and safety issues that everyone cares about today are shameless behaviors of many unscrupulous businessmen, but they are also related to the incompetence of many regulatory authorities. The corruption of managers and loopholes in system management give unscrupulous businessmen an opportunity. With the rapid development of China's market economy, the management mechanism and ability of all aspects of society have not kept up. Relevant experts pointed out that this situation is like a high-speed rail turning, and factors such as operation management mechanism and human control ability are relatively lacking. Such rapid development will certainly bring many social problems. In addition to system design, there will be some inevitable problems in the optimization of social management resources. Clear responsibilities? The consciousness has not penetrated into the hearts of every leader, and the accountability mechanism is not perfect, which leads to the weak punishment for the incident and the weak ability to solve problems, which leads to the frequent occurrence of similar cases. Institutional defects are the biggest reason for such incidents.
2.3 the influence of western thoughts and values
Over the past 30 years of reform and opening up, our degree of opening up has become higher and higher. In addition to the experience and technology of countries around the world, western values and ideas have also penetrated into many aspects of our society. Our traditional culture has also been influenced by foreign cultures, especially western culture, which is very popular in capitalist society? Egoism? 、? Individualism, a selfish value, has directly led to its long-term promotion since the founding of the People's Republic of China? Selfless? And then what? Give up yourself for the public? The decline of moral values. Therefore, the morality of western capitalism is an egoistic morality based on individuals. The ideological trend of values with individualism as the core can easily influence and destroy China's current imperfect moral system. (3) Western culture takes the individual as the center and advocates individual freedom and rights. On the surface, it is easy to mislead some of our compatriots into selfish values. There is nothing wrong with pursuing individual freedom and rights, but China is a socialist country, which has inherited the excellent traditional culture for 5,000 years. Selfless? It is the moral ethics that we should uphold, and the western self-interest concept has seriously affected the inheritance of this good value. In addition, there are many kinds of western ideological trends, and many bad values are mixed among them, which is easy to confuse people and make it difficult to distinguish good from bad. This is also an important aspect of the influence of western thoughts and values on China's excellent traditional culture and socialist core values.
3 China social moral indifference countermeasures
Moral indifference is a very serious problem, which is not only detrimental to personal moral cultivation, but also easily corrupts social atmosphere and affects social long-term stability and socialist modernization. It is urgent to solve the problem of moral indifference, which has great practical and moral significance.
3. 1 Strengthen social morality education and raise citizens' awareness of social morality.
In view of the phenomenon of moral indifference, we need to strengthen social morality education, adhere to the combination of excellent traditional culture and contemporary socialist core values education, and effectively improve citizens' social morality awareness. In terms of traditional culture, vigorously promote it? Selfless? Spirit, when dealing with people, can you do it? Old people and old people, young people and young people? Treat others as their relatives and respect the interests of the state and the collective? Worry about the world first, and enjoy it later? Put other people's happiness before yourself and think more about others. Carry forward the socialist core values? Civilization, harmony and friendship? Treat others with sincere and friendly heart. In addition, improve the public's social moral awareness. The most important thing is to improve our citizens' sense of obligation and moral responsibility to social morality, and the public should have emotional respect for this obligation. Through the vigorous publicity and education of the public, a good fashion of attaching importance to social morality is formed in the whole society, thus transforming social morality into the inherent virtue of every citizen in our country. At the same time, everyone can establish a sense of moral responsibility and honor and disgrace, more consciously assume social responsibility to society and others, and establish a good social morality in China.
3.2 Improve social management mechanisms and laws and regulations.
In the construction of social mechanism, we should establish a reward and punishment system consistent with morality and welfare, and maintain? Good people are rewarded. The wicked get what they deserve? Ideal creed. If the state and society can guarantee that everyone will get the due reward after doing good and evil, then everyone will inherit this creed from generation to generation, and the problem of moral indifference will be solved. On the national side, it is necessary to formulate relevant laws and regulations, formulate a courageous fund, provide material and spiritual support for those who help others, and punish those who are courageous through legislation, which can serve as a warning to people; At the social level, advocate and encourage all kinds of fund organizations to support the courageous fund, ensure the stable source of funds, and gradually establish a trinity fund guarantee system of the state, society and individuals and a reward mechanism for courageous people to avoid? Heroes bleed, sweat and cry? The occurrence of tragedy.
3.3 Correct moral indifference and cultivate social love.
Taking moral love as a value orientation of modern civilized society, we must unify the legal system, human nature and their emotions, establish a new social moral system and its moral evaluation standard in China, educate and guide the public, be ready to help others and care for others at any time, and form a harmonious relationship of mutual help, mutual concern and mutual restraint. Cultivating people's love requires three levels. First of all, learn to love yourself and your family, cherish your life and reputation, and respect the old and love the young in the family, so that husband and wife can live in harmony. These ordinary people can do it. Second, learn to conceive? Love? Put our words and deeds into the social practice of loving the party, the people, socialism, labor and science, and improve our moral cultivation and love index in practice, then everyone will become a moral model, and the problem of moral indifference will no longer exist.
To sum up, we find that in recent years, the problem of social moral indifference has emerged constantly, mainly manifested in the lack of gratitude consciousness and the decrease of enthusiasm for helping others. There are many reasons for the problems, such as economic influence, system construction, foreign culture and personal moral and psychological development. In view of these problems, we put forward targeted solutions, requiring us to establish a truly effective, scientific and reasonable social management mechanism and system, strengthen social morality education, and carry out caring cultivation. Although the problem of social moral indifference is prominent, we should understand that moral indifference is a moral tributary after all. With the development of various measures, the problems will gradually decrease. With the gradual deepening of China's reform and opening up and the promotion of socialist core values, the problem of moral indifference will gradually decrease and the social moral atmosphere will become better and better.
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