Moral Thought in the Field of Society

Abstract

K. Marx believed that “social life is practice in essence”, and people’s “first historical activity is to produce the materials to meet these needs, that is, produce the material life itself.” Obviously, the basis of social existence is people’s material production, which thus determines the nature and content of socio-political, economic and ideological and cultural fields. The ancient Chinese society based on the “Asiatic mode of production” began with a patriarchal society, and the social reform in the Spring and Autumn Period did not change the basis of the patriarchal relationship, therefore, the Confucian moral thought in the social field is mainly manifested as: moral thought about the social ethnics, moral stipulation to the practice of social ethnics, based on which the value relation between social righteousness and benefit is established.