Author: Yu Huiying (Professor, Department of Marxism, Northeast Normal University)
Strengthening the ideological and moral construction of the whole society is an important way to improve the level of spiritual civilization of the whole society and form a good social fashion. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed that it is necessary to "inspire people to form good moral will and feelings, cultivate correct moral judgment and moral responsibility, and improve their moral practice ability, especially their conscious practice ability". This important exposition provides a fundamental basis for us to strengthen the ideological and moral construction of the whole society in the new era and new journey.
Stimulate people to form good moral will and emotion.
It is a systematic project to improve the ideological and moral level of the whole society and form a good moral fashion. It is an important task of moral construction to stimulate people to form good moral will and feelings and make all members of society realize the importance of morality to individuals and the whole society.
Morality is of fundamental significance to individuals and society, and the first thing to do is to respect morality and cultivate one’s morality. The harmony and stability of social life and the benign operation of social order need to be guaranteed by good legal norms and rule of law mechanisms. However, the experience of ancient and modern China and foreign countries shows that it is far from enough to rely solely on legal norms and the rule of law mechanism. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized: "Law is written morality, morality is inner law, and both law and morality have the functions of regulating social behavior and maintaining social order. To govern the country and society, we must pay attention to the rule of law and the rule of virtue, and attach importance to both the normative role of law and the educational role of morality, so as to realize that law and morality complement each other, and the rule of law and the rule of virtue complement each other. " In fact, the moral level of citizens determines a country’s social fashion, civilization and long-term stability. The strength of national development and the external image of the country are important cultural soft power of the country. Liang Qichao said: "The view of a country is more important to people, and it does not depend on the size of its territory or the size of its population, but on the character of its citizens." General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "As long as the Chinese nation pursues a beautiful and lofty moral realm from generation to generation, our nation will always be full of hope."
To stimulate people to form good moral will and emotion, we should make people fully realize the importance of morality to the bright future of individuals, society and country and improve their consciousness of moral construction. Therefore, through education, guidance and encouragement, people, especially teenagers, should be clear about their personal behavior value orientation and code of conduct, and deeply realize that people’s behavior should not only be bound by law, but also conform to moral requirements and social and national interests. Therefore, in moral construction, we should vigorously preach the importance of morality to individuals, society and country, the important role of morality in the continuation of Chinese civilization, and the important role of moral construction in promoting Chinese modernization and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. As a result, all members of the society have a good moral will and feelings, and they are determined to be socialist practitioners who stress morality and value morality.
Cultivate correct moral judgment and moral responsibility
Cultivating correct moral judgment and moral responsibility and creating a strong atmosphere of respecting morality and doing good are important supports for ideological and moral construction. To strengthen the ideological and moral construction of the whole society, we must attach great importance to and do a good job in cultivating people’s correct moral judgment and enhancing people’s sense of moral responsibility, so that people can have a correct understanding and stand on various moral concepts and values, have the ability to pursue truth, goodness and beauty, and condemn falsehood, ugliness and ugliness, distinguish between socialist morality and feudal morality and capitalist morality, persist in cultivating and promoting socialist core values, and enhance their sense of responsibility in practicing socialist moral norms.
In promoting the new journey of Chinese modernization and strengthening the ideological and moral construction of the whole society, we must establish the correct moral judgment and moral responsibility of all the people. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed: "Whether a nation or a person can grasp themselves depends largely on moral values. If our people can’t adhere to the moral values formed and developed on the land of our country and blindly become the echo of western moral values, then we really have to ask whether our country and nation will lose their spiritual independence. " Therefore, under the guidance of Marxism, our moral construction must cultivate correct moral judgment and moral responsibility that reflect the core values of socialism.
Core values are actually a kind of virtue, which is not only a personal virtue, but also a great virtue, that is, a national virtue and a social virtue. As the soul of contemporary Chinese’s values, socialist core values play a decisive role in forming the correct moral judgment and moral responsibility of the whole society. To cultivate people’s correct moral judgment and moral responsibility, we need to absorb valuable resources from Chinese excellent traditional culture and vigorously inherit and carry forward Chinese excellent traditional virtues. We should adopt an eclectic attitude towards the cultural and moral norms passed down by our ancestors on the basis of removing the coarse and selecting the fine, removing the false and retaining the true, adhere to the method of making the past serve the present and bringing forth the new, treat them discriminately and inherit them with sublation. "We should be good at using the philosophical thought, humanistic spirit and moral concept condensed in Chinese excellent traditional culture to distinguish right from wrong, distinguish good from evil, and know how to be honest and shameful", strive to realize the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese traditional virtues, and educate and guide people to yearn for and pursue a moral, respectful and moral life.
Improve moral practice ability, especially conscious practice ability.
The ideological and moral construction of the whole society focuses on practice. To improve the ideological and moral level of the whole society and form a good moral trend of the whole society, we should pay attention to moral practice on the premise that all people form good moral will and feelings, and on the basis of having correct moral judgment and moral responsibility. Therefore, we must attach great importance to improving people’s moral practice ability, especially their conscious practice ability.
To improve people’s moral practice ability, especially their conscious practice ability, we should adhere to the unity of knowing and doing, actions speak louder than words, and work hard on detail, smallness and implementation. Pay attention to the daily, concrete, visual and life-oriented socialist core values, so that everyone can perceive it and understand it, internalize it into spiritual pursuit, externalize it into practical action, and achieve great morality, public morality and strict private morality. Persevere in improving people’s ideological and moral cultivation, consciously carry forward the spirit of patriotism and collectivism, guide people to learn from moral models, actively strive for goodness, and consciously abide by social morality, professional ethics and family virtues. Guide people to work hard, not covet comfort, not afraid of difficulties, not complaining about others, relying on hard work and sweat to open up their life and career prospects and pursue a better life.
Guide people to absorb beneficial nutrition from Chinese excellent traditional culture, nourish the soul and cultivate moral practice ability. Improve and perfect the social atmosphere that encourages people to carry out moral practice and consciously improve their moral practice ability. It is an important task for the ideological and moral construction of the whole society to create a social atmosphere of upward goodness. Vigorously publicize moral models and moral models, establish a reward and incentive mechanism to form moral models and moral models, and make them the leaders of good social customs.
Continue to promote the construction of institutional mechanisms conducive to the ideological and moral construction of the whole society. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "Cultivating and carrying forward socialist core values depends not only on ideological education and practice, but also on institutional mechanisms." People’s moral practice ability includes the ability to consciously practice morality, which requires both inner consciousness and external norms. We should use laws to promote the construction of socialist core values. All kinds of social management should shoulder the responsibility of advocating socialist core values, pay attention to embodying value orientation in daily management, and encourage behaviors that conform to core values and restrict behaviors that violate core values. By perfecting the system and mechanism in this respect, we will promote people to continuously improve their moral practice ability, especially their conscious practice ability, and guide people to strive to be practitioners and advanced in ideological and moral construction.
(This article is the phased achievement of the national social science fund project "Research on Moral Education of Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture Empowering Universities, Primary and Secondary Schools")