Chapter 286 (1/2)

Morality is a good teacher to guide people to pursue the best. It teaches people to know themselves, their responsibilities and obligations to family, others, society and country, and to correctly understand the laws and principles of social moral life, so as to correctly choose their own way of life and regulate their own behaviors.

Morality is the regulator of social contradictions. People living in society always have to have such and such relations with their own kind. Therefore, all kinds of contradictions inevitably occur.

It is necessary to regulate people's behavior, guide and correct people's behavior by their own standards of good and evil through the unique forms of social public opinion, customs and inner beliefs, so as to improve and harmonize the relationship between people and between individuals and society.

Morality is an inspiring guide. It cultivates people's good moral consciousness, moral quality and moral behavior, establishes correct concepts of obligation, honor, justice and happiness, and makes the educated become people with pure morality and noble ideals.

Morality is a just judge. Moral evaluation is a great social force and people's inner will power. Morality is a way for people to evaluate social phenomena with good and evil to grasp the real world.

Morality not only regulates the relationship between people, but also balances the relationship between people and nature. It requires people to correct their attitude towards nature and regulate their own behavior.

Environmental morality is one of the public morality in contemporary society. It can educate people to develop natural resources, develop social production, maintain ecological balance, actively manage and prevent man-made damage to the natural environment, and balance the normal relationship between man and nature from the overall and long-term interests of society.

The purpose of formulating moral principles is to regulate the interest relationship and maximize the interests of the class (society or group). All freedom that does not infringe upon the freedom of others should be protected.

This rule is the standard that liberalists put forward to test all moral norms. The morality that does not conform to this rule is the unequal slave morality that persecutes the weak.

In other words, as long as the behavior has nothing to do with others and does not infringe on the freedom and interests of others, it should not be considered as immoral, evil and shameful, and should not be subject to any violent interference or public opinion condemnation.

Morality has certain commonality, which means that the morality of different classes in the same society, or even different classes in different societies, has some similar or identical characteristics due to similar or identical economic conditions, cultural background and national psychology.

Nationality is the individual characteristics of a nation which is different from other nations, including the spirit, temperament, psychology, emotion, character, language, customs, habits, interests, ideals, traditions, as well as the way of life and the way of understanding things. The moral principles and standards of different nationalities are also different.

All kinds of morality in class society serve for specific class interests, so they all have specific class attributes and characteristics. Morality, like other connections, has both development and inheritance.

With the help of the understanding of the laws of nature and society and the real life conditions, the moral subject voluntarily identifies with the social moral norms, and practices the moral norms in combination with the actual situation of the individual, so as to turn the passive obedience into the active self-discipline, and turn the external moral requirements into their own internal good independent action.

In Japan, Vietnam, North Korea, South Korea and other East Asian regions, there are great similarities and differences in moral concepts between China and Japan.