“重私德轻公德”的道德传统及其现代影响

带有强烈“私德浓厚而公德薄弱”特征的传统道德,使我国在走出传统的村落社会并构架现代意义的公共生活的过程中,明显缺乏一种支撑这种生活的具有公共理性色彩的公德伦理精神。它造成了许多道德错位应用现象的发生,给我国当代社会发展带来了极大的阻力。因此,必须弄清楚公德和私德的区别,力争在道德实践中合理地应用二者。

Moral Tradition of "Valueing Private Morality More Than Social Morality" and its Modern Influence

The traditional morals,with its strong characteristic that private morality is strong and social morality is weak, make our society lack a kind of public rationality as the support in the process of going out of the traditional agricultural society and entering the industrial society. It has caused a lot of social problems and has brought great obstruction to social development too. So we should make clear the differences between the social morality and private morality, and apply the two moralities reasonably in practice.