二十一世纪行将来临,要求人类的伦理规范与之相应。我国的现代化过程,也要求中华民族在扬弃传统道德中建设现代伦理。古代所遗留的传统,在现代社会中,并不仅仅用以了解过去,它对当今的现代化有所作用、影响,是现代化的起点。之所以如此,因为“人们自己创造自己的历史,但是他们并不是随心所欲地创造,并不是在他们自己选定的条件下创造,而是在直接碰到的、既定的,从过去继承下来的条件下创造。”(《马克思恩格斯选集》第二卷第6页,人民出版社1966年版。)当代中国人所 The twenty-first century is approaching, requiring human ethics to be commensurate with it. The modernization process in our country also requires the Chinese nation to build a modern ethic in abandoning its traditional morality. In the modern society, the tradition left over from ancient times did not only serve to understand the past. It has played a role in and influence on today’s modernization and is the starting point of modernization. This is so because “people create their own history, but they do not create as they please, they do not create it under their own chosen conditions, but rather they are directly encountered, established, inherited from the past Under the conditions of creation. ”(“ Selected Works of Marx and Engels, ”Volume II, page 6, People’s Publishing House, 1966 edition.) Contemporary Chinese