价值观-英文版

Thinking of Chinese Traditional Values

Traditional Chinese values always seek in the harmony among society,human beings and nature which has been regarded as the main melody of ideal life and fight against the views of personal independent thoughts and enterprising,so that they focus on cultivating the.collective consciousness and sincere consciousness, etc. Such values remain a kind of the great inertia which is a kind of searching the middle way and maintain consistent with the Chinese traditional ethics and morality. Namely, the and good things are connected to one,,and he only good is beautiful.That is, an important feature of the traditional Chinese values ethics is that the moral principle is viewed as the absolute standard, namely, moral principles are the evaluation criterion of subject on the object,including all the things into people's knowledge such as personnel, social life and natural things. One ethical thing is valuable, and conversely, it will be considered worthless. So there are several questions to think about: In modren society,whether are traditional values perfectly correct? Which attitude should we keep towards the traditional values? How should we develop it future?

As is well-known to all, some social consciousness is producted by certain factors related to social, political and economic conditions Of course,it must reflect the characteristics of the times and is contemporary cultural symbols..Chinese values were borned into the feudal society and

also has the characteristics of the related times. Firstly, the feudal society is a kind of society where the small-scale peasant economy is dominant so that the values must contain small thought which must not only pursue social fairness and justice, but also has negative conservative backward. Secondly, the feudal society implements the system of feudal land ownership in which economic power is mastered by the feudal landlord class, who inevitably also master the social culture after becoming the supevisors of social and economic fields to advocate relevant culture consistent with their class interests.So traditional values have the thoughts of not only the protection of the legitimate rights and individual intere sts (mainly private property is sacrosanct) but also pursuing personal interests and maintaining the backward economic exploitation. Finally, the rulers of the feudal society also need to maintain their ruling order by means of culture and require civilians of completely obeying the rulers by them. So traditional values have not only the positive thoughts of rule by laws and maintaining the social stability but also negtive backward ideas of thought control. These are enough to explain a fact that the traditional values are not completely correct and we should quote the words said by lu xun "leave the essence and discard the dross" to express our attitude towards Chinese traditional values so as to develop the positive thoughts.

Now that we should use the critical attitude to the traditional values, we should also determine a standard to tell the differences between