1. Cognitive function-Morality is a good teacher who guides people to pursue perfection. It teaches people to know themselves, their responsibilities and obligations to family, others, society and the country, and correctly understand the laws and principles of social moral life, so as to correctly choose their own behavior and life path.
2. Regulating function-Morality is the regulator of social contradictions. People who live in society always have such a relationship with their own kind. Because of this, all kinds of contradictions will inevitably arise, which requires us to adjust people's behavior in society, guide and correct people's behavior with our own standards of good and evil through social public opinion, customs, inner beliefs and other unique forms, so that the relationship between people and between individuals and society tends to be perfect and harmonious.
3. Educational function-1. Morality is an inspiring guide. It cultivates people's good moral consciousness, moral quality and moral behavior, sets up correct concepts such as obligation, honor, justice and happiness, and makes the educated become people with pure morality and noble ideals.
4. Evaluation function-a judge with moral justice. Moral evaluation is a huge social force and people's internal will power. Morality is a way for people to grasp the reality through evaluation, and it is realized by judging the "good" and "evil" of the surrounding social phenomena.
5. Balance function-a kind of morality not only regulates the relationship between people, but also balances the relationship between people and nature. It requires people to have a correct attitude towards nature and regulate their own behavior. Environmental morality is one of the contemporary social ethics, which can educate people with a high sense of responsibility for the benefit of future generations, and proceed from the overall interests and long-term interests of society, develop natural resources, develop social production, maintain ecological balance, actively control and prevent man-made damage to the natural environment, and balance the normal relationship between man and nature. Necessity of moral construction: Moral construction under the condition of socialist market economy is related to the nature and direction of socialist culture, the development direction of socialism and the development of China's comprehensive national strength and national quality. Ways of moral construction: 1. Determine a social value direction, which is universal and can be recognized by the public. Let citizens find their goals. Loyalty and filial piety were advocated in ancient China. Now the slogan of human rights and democracy in the west is actually setting the direction.
2. We should establish a positive moral judgment standard that can unite the strength of the whole society and distinguish right from wrong to help the masses distinguish right from wrong. The reason why moral construction in our society is difficult is largely because many moral standards in the past have been destroyed, but new moral standards have not been established.
3, need to do a good job in publicity and education. What the West calls "human rights" and "democracy" all day long is not correct, and it may not really be the ruling standard of the leaders of those countries. However, they are using various channels for indoctrination and even pressure-irrigation propaganda, and even using military aggression as an excuse to publicize this idea. The current financial crisis and Bush's tax reduction policy for the rich prove that western leaders do not really believe in and promote "democracy" and "human rights", but adopt a very comprehensive packaging method. In the process of moral construction in China, we need to get rid of the shortcomings of the west, but their missionary-style promotion spirit needs us to learn.
4. In the construction of any moral thought, we can't ignore those social parts that can most influence moral construction. These most influential social parts are those who are admired and pursued by the public at a certain social stage. Now our country is vigorously carrying out economic construction, and the people are most eager for wealth and so on. Then the most influential people now are the people who get rich first in our country. Doing a good job in the ideological and moral construction of these people is not only conducive to the promotion of moral concepts, but also conducive to the maintenance of political achievements. Through these people, we can spread our ideas quickly. At the same time, if these idols do things that are not conducive to moral construction, they will also do great harm to moral construction.
5. Establish the moral self-confidence of the whole society. Because China's current economic situation is worse than that of many western countries, and its science and technology are behind many western countries, we may have doubts about our moral values. But we should also see why we have achieved so much in just 30 years.
6. Fully combine the moral thoughts in China's history and current international environment to avoid decoupling. Many traditional moral thoughts of China are rich in connotation and have been tested for a long time. Western ideas have propaganda advantages. At the same time, some western ideas are mistaken for being correct by many people because of the developed western economy, but these still need to be tested by society and time.
7. Our moral construction should be based on unity, harmony, cooperation, long-term, tolerance, generosity, prosperity, openness, promotion and introspection. At the same time, we can't ignore many threats and challenges around our lives, that is, we should have a sense of crisis, independence and awareness of prevention in the established ideological and moral norms.
8. We should manage all kinds of cultural propaganda channels, manage the Internet, books, television, movies and all kinds of tools and channels that can be used for propaganda, put an end to the spread of ideas that endanger our society and help the society distinguish right from wrong.