The five historical types of moral development and their nature, characteristics, and connotations

The content of the five types of morality and their respective natures, characteristics, and connotations.

1. The morality of primitive society.

2. The morality of a slave society.

3. Morality in feudal society.

4. Morality in capitalist society.

5. Morality in a socialist society.

Moral development is an aspect of an individual's psychological development. The process by which individuals recognize social ethical and moral rules and norms, and form moral cognition, moral emotions, and moral behaviors.

It is not only affected by the social and cultural environment around the individual, but also by the individual's maturity and cognitive and emotional development, especially the social and moral activities he engages in.

Legal Analysis: Historical Types of Morality: Primitive Social Morality, Slave Social Morality, Feudal Social Morality, Capitalist Social Morality.

Historical types of law: slavery law, feudal law, capitalist law, socialist law.

Legal basis: "Ideological and Moral Cultivation and Legal Foundation" Some Western ethicists have divided morality into four historical types: the barbaric period, the Greek period, the medieval period, and the bourgeois period. Marxist ethics divides morality into five historical types according to the state of social development, especially the nature of ownership of the means of production, which is the basis of the economic structure

That is, primitive social morality, slave social morality, feudal social morality, capitalist social morality, communist social morality (including the morality of socialist society in the initial stage of communist society). The historical types of law are divided into slavery laws, feudal laws, capitalist laws, and socialist laws.

Legal Analysis: No, Four Laws, Five Virtues. The historical type of law is the Marxist viewpoint, and Marxism believes that the historical type of law is a special form of the development of law.

According to the economic basis on which the law is produced and the class will embodied in the law, the historical types of law can be divided into:

1. Slavery Law.

2. Feudal law.

3. Capitalist law.

4. Socialist law.

Legal basis: Article 5 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China: The People's Republic of China shall govern the country according to law and build a socialist country under the rule of law.

The state upholds the unity and dignity of the socialist legal system.

All laws, administrative regulations, and local regulations must not contradict the Constitution.

All state organs and armed forces, all political parties, all social organizations, and all enterprises and institutions must abide by the Constitution and laws. All acts that violate the Constitution and the law must be investigated.

No organization or individual may have privileges that go beyond the Constitution and laws.

Historical Types of Morality.

1. The morality of primitive society.

2. The morality of a slave society.

3. Morality in feudal society.

4. Morality in capitalist society.

Historical Types of Law:

1. Slavery Law.

2. Feudal law.

3. Capitalist law.

4. Socialist law.

Difference Between Law and Morality:

Morality and law are the two main forms of existence of social norms, two categories that are both different and related, and the difference between the two can be attributed to at least the different conditions under which they arise, primitive societies have no laws in the modern sense, only moral norms or religious taboos, or clan customs.

There are similarities between the historical types of violent acts and the historical types of laws, and there are differences in language, and when the 10 days are reached, there is no mandatory law, and the law is enforceable.

Mankind has experienced five historical types of moral development, namely: the morality of primitive society, the morality of slave society, the morality of feudal society, the morality of capitalist society, and the morality of socialist society. All human activities are aimed at attaining some kind of happiness, and the difference lies in the type and degree of fulfillment of happiness.

Since moral activity is an activity, it is of course no exception, and it is also for the pursuit of some kind of happiness. The human soul can be roughly divided into three parts, namely, the part of nourishment and reproduction, the part of feeling and desire, and the part of mind and reason. Since morality is closely related to practice and activity, its purpose is to pursue the happiness of the feeling and desire part of the human soul.

The idea of the five forms of human society has been rejected by the historiographical circles, and it is no longer mentioned, and it will not be examined.

1. The morality of primitive society.

2. The morality of a slave society.

3. Morality in feudal society.

4. Morality in capitalist society.

5. Morality in a socialist society.

During the Renaissance, some Western ethicists divided morality into four historical types: the barbaric period, the Greek period, the medieval period, and the bourgeois period.

According to the development of society, especially the nature of the ownership of the means of production, which is the basis of the economic structure, Marxist ethics divides morality into five historical types: primitive social morality, slave social morality, feudal social morality, capitalist social morality, and communist social morality.

1. The morality of primitive society.

2. The morality of a slave society.

3. Morality in feudal society.

4. Morality in capitalist society.

5. Morality in a socialist society.

-- Ideological and Moral Cultivation and Legal Foundation