A Brief Analysis of the Characteristics of Moral Identity and It’s Mechanisms in the Context of Chinese Traditional Moral Culture
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210121.180How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Moral identity, Moral psychology, Chinese traditional moral culture
- Abstract
Moral identity is a hot issue in psychology and other social sciences. Up to now, the abstract characteristics of moral identity has been studied in psychology, rarely involving it’s formation process and content in specific culture. Chinese traditional moral culture, based on Confucianism, emphasizes the extreme importance of morality and the individual’s responsibility to practise morality. As a result, moral identity becomes a complex personality structure based on the moral belief of becoming a saint or sage. In Chinese history, with the help of God worship and ancestor worship, the cultural mechanism of constructing moral identity has been formed. The individual mechanism of moral identity construction is not only self-cultivation, but also smelting through social institutions and family. In the future, it is necessary to study the specific content, characteristics and construction mechanism of moral identity in the background of the traditional Chinese moral culture, and study the evolution trend of Chinese moral identity combined with the transformation of contemporary moral culture.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Chunhua Shi AU - Baojun Wang AU - Lin Zhang PY - 2021 DA - 2021/01/23 TI - A Brief Analysis of the Characteristics of Moral Identity and It’s Mechanisms in the Context of Chinese Traditional Moral Culture BT - Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development (SSCHD 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 930 EP - 932 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210121.180 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210121.180 ID - Shi2021 ER -