It is often said that "there is no Fiona Fang without rules". Everyone in social life not only has his own requirements, but also is dominated and bound by social politics, laws and moral norms. In order to make people truly become human beings and society truly rational, there must be moral conscious norms. As an important means of social regulation system, ethics and legal provisions constitute the content of people's behavior norms.
Ethics in the Comparison of Chinese and Western Cultures
First, the concept of "ethics" is the core concept of western rational ethics; The concept of "morality" is the logical starting point of China's moral philosophy.
Secondly, due to the different origins and development tracks of the two cultures, the concepts of "ethics" and "morality" in the Chinese and western contexts are branded with their respective national spirits and historical cultures. The concept of "ethics" contains the attributes of rationality, science and general will in the West. The concept of "virtue" contains more colors of oriental culture, such as sentiment, humanity and personal cultivation.
Thirdly, in the current academic discourse of China, "ethics" has gradually become the first-level concept in ethics, while "morality" has retreated to the second-level concept under the concept of "ethics" in ethics. They have their own relatively independent concept categories and application fields. That is, the concept of "ethics" is applicable to theoretical categories such as abstraction, rationality, rules and general will, while the concept of "morality" is applicable to practical categories such as concreteness, emotion, action and personal cultivation.