Civilization: The Modernization of Spiritual Culture
Culture and civilization are more than spirit. But spiritual civilization is indeed the most beautiful and splendid flower of all cultures and civilizations as the soul of culture and civilization. The modernization of spiritual culture of our country mus
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Civilization: The Modernization of Spiritual Culture
Culture and civilization are more than spirit. But spiritual civilization is indeed the most beautiful and splendid flower of all cultures and civilizations as the soul of culture and civilization. The modernization of spiritual culture of our country must integrate the outstanding achievements of the modern human civilization and be propped up by ideological system of innovative spirit of the Chinese nation to construct a common spiritual home of the Chinese nation.
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Values Revolution and Reconstruction
Spiritual cultural fields composed by “knowledge, emotion, and will” have their expression in reality in an infinite variety of lively forms and colors. Its content can be roughly summarized into two categories: “knowledge and skills system” and “values system.” The modernization of spiritual culture is not only a sign of progress in the knowledge of the science and culture of the Chinese nation of our country, but also a sign of the formation and development of a new socialist values system of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
13.1.1 Values Revolution The so-called values refer to the general ideas and views about values taking shape in the social practice based on people’s needs of the survival, development, and enjoyment. It is an integrated system of people’s values and beliefs, ideals, standards, and specific value orientation. Values, as the fundamental view of whether things are of value or things of what value, are the scale inside people to distinguish between good and bad, pros and cons, gains and losses, good and evil, beauty and ugliness, justice and injustice, and the sacred and the secular, serving as a binding standard unique of people as to dos and don’ts. Once formed, the values will seep into all the value-related activities of people and act as the guidance and basis for © Heilongjiang Education Press & Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016 D. Li, On Chinese Culture, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0279-3_13
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Civilization: The Modernization of Spiritual Culture
people’s value evaluation, selection and creation, and the motives and starting point for decision-making. The values of any age are always constructed on the basis of certain socioeconomic environments as an integral part of the social consciousness system and contain to some degree culture consistency as the deep structure of a cultural system. Therefore, the investigation into the changes in social values should take into consideration both the constraints and the impact from the social structure, especially economic structure from a practical point of view, but also grasp the characteristics and trends of its historical evolution from the continuation of cultural traditions. The transition from planned economy to market economy is a profound revolution. The self-transformation in the economic foundation of the field of self-transformation, both in the fundamental values of socialism, is both the choice under the guidance of socialist fundamental values and
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