Chapter 50 1. The rule of law and the rule of virtue

Crowds make up society, and society needs state governance.The most common form of governance is the rule of law, and there is also the rule of virtue.The rule of virtue is to restrain everyone with moral concepts and norms, and to influence and educate people with morality.Compared with the rule of law, the rule of virtue is more abstract.The legal system has clear provisions and is objectively mandatory.The rule of virtue is more focused on the transformation and restraint of the soul, allowing people to abide by a conventional thing, making people be good, knowing honor and disgrace, distinguishing loyalty from traitors, and driving away evil, and turning these ideas into people's subjective understanding and understanding. Habit.China's society for thousands of years has been governed by the rule of law and the rule of virtue.

China is a country of etiquette, with a strong sense of human touch. It has always paid attention to the rule of virtue, and it even surpasses the rule of law to some extent.Family affection, human relations, and morality are deeply ingrained in people's hearts and form certain rules. Violations will be despised and condemned, so many good things between people and between people and society have been achieved.It is a typical example that Confucianism can be passed down to this day. When we encounter some legal disputes, we always like to say a word: reasonable but illegal.It can be seen that there is a conflict between emotion and law.This is actually a conflict between the rule of virtue and the rule of law.Today's laws are becoming more and more humane, which is actually a detailed change in the legal system's bias towards the rule of virtue.Because the law is dead, the provisions are dead, but the specific things are complicated. The effect of the legal system is to simplify, merge, and classify complicated things, and then make clear regulations to give people a clear vision and mind. shock.Morality is not, it is mild and conceptual, and you can abide by it out of conscience, or you can leave it behind with no conscience, it all depends on your beliefs.

So what is belief?Faith is a kind of persistence, it is to consciously abide by the bottom line of morality, to persist in the beauty in the heart, to do something and not to do something.In this society, faith is still advocated by us.