中国道德与西方道德(英语论文).doc

chinese morals and western moralsas we all know, the chinese morals and western morals are not all the same. there are similarities and differences between them.first, the different and similar in treating personal interests and collective avail, national interest.the chinese think greatly of a collective avail, including household avail, national interest more and advocate to control own desire, inversely extreme individualism and hero doctrine and usually chase personal interests and collective avail, the national interest contacts together, is richer than to love ones country and dedicates body spirit.but the western people value an individwal avail more and pursue human right, emphasize a freedom and think if even the individwal avails can not guarantee and talk more what collective avail, is exactly thought understanding like this, finally pushed the shape of western democracy.second, the different and similar in democracy idea.the chinese pay attention to the freedom of spirit, liberalizing, the democracy see into a seigniory to expensively bestow. so our people always hope earnestly blue sky, hopes to have the good officers presence to strive for benefit for people. but the democracy of west think, the government proceeds from a people, the whole political powers are just peoples invest, let the government is to a kind of public power for exercising.third, west emphasizes individwal home position, but the chinese promote community home position. amid western dissimilarity of morality, make to had a different characteristics amid ethics system and morals specification of the west: west heavy agreement, china weighs ethical relations; the west weighs rational, china weigh human feelings; the western ethics is more heavy than a rivalry, china then is over-emphasized to the doctrine of the mean, harmonious; chinese confucianism the ethics morals of west is to take bad human nature as a starting point, emphasize individual morals education, the kind standpoint sets out from the human nature and emphasize individual morals accomplishmentwhy will this discrepancy generate? there are several reasons.the first is the impact of the economic system.the traditional economies in china is typical of the natural economy of self - sufficiency. people are more law-abiding conservative. because they depend on a piece of land to live a lifetime, culture is more introverted. and the ancient civilization of china, rise in a big river area, belong to agriculture civilization, agriculture civilization personality accomplished oriental to pay attention to ethics morals and begged to together beg steady, takeand for expensive, endure for higher - as to conduct oneself in life a priniple. ancient greece civilization of west rises in to love a piano sea littoral and belongs to ocean civilization, besides the agriculture in europe far is different from the agriculture in china in the ancient community so importance, so the european likes to outwardly investigate, culture compare extrovert.and western nation after industrial revolution very speedy entered industrial economic age, industrial civilization personality accomplished law consciousness that the western people have stronger conflict spirit and maintenance self interest, with independence, liberalizing, level for conduc