Fan Hao: How Could Chinese Ethics Be No Longer Suffered from Perplexities?

 The Author: Fan Heping, pen named Fan Hao. Senior Professor Fan Heping is the director of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Southeast University. He is the vice president of Jiangsu Academy of Social Sciences. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Changjiang Scholar of Ministry of Education. He focuses on moral philosophy and the moral development of China. 

Key words: ethics; no perplexities; philosophical; ethical; of China 

Heading notes: Stage results of Jiangsu “moral development high-end think tank” “Civic morality and social fashion collaborative innovation center” and the 19 special projects of the Ministry of Education.  

Forty years since the reform and opening-up policy, through this multiple and changeful period, the ethics and moral development of China has accumulated culture consensus and become no longer suffered from perplexities. How could Chinese ethics be no longer suffered from perplexities? Shiller once said that, ‘In a sense of body, we are still civic of our era( on this kind of things we actually do not have a choice), but in a sense of spirit, the privilege and responsibility for a philosopher and imaginative writer is to get rid of the shackles of a certain nation and a certain era and become a real contemporary of all ages.’ Modern Chinese ethics should not only baptize the pure and fresh breath of these 40 years, but should also accumulate the thoughts and academic essence from this tide historical revolution into a ‘new tradition’ of the development of Chinese ethics. While carve the collective memory for this era, modern Chinese ethics should also dive into the endless stream of national cultural heritage, and become the ‘contemporary of all ages’