Belief and Moral Crisis in the Period of Social Transformation

Social transformation means the profound change of social life and the change of social life will initiate the change of moral paradigm consequently.The disintegration of the basis foundation of moral belief is the essence of moral crisis appeared in the process of alternating between the new and the old moral paradigm.The traditional moral which is based on a certain belief from religion or metaphysics and valued by community has disintegrated and has lost its validity in modern society.The moral adapted to the modern society should stand up to the modern rational reflection and contain the basic fairness value. But there are few rational spirits of modern subject and fairness principle based on this rational spirit in Chinese cultural traditions.Furthermore,some ugly social phenomenon such as power-for-money deal and nepotism is damaging the belief of the modern moral to the fairness principle.