Substituting Morality for Religion: Bring up a Meaningful Issue Again——The Theoretical Sense of Liang Shuming's "Substituting Morality for Religion" Theory

Half a century ago, Mr Liang Shuming raised a theory that the moral Chinese family life, which provides Chinese people with emothional comfort and encouragement, has a religious effect in Chinese society, meanwhile the kind of function is carried by the religions in Western society. In this article, the author holds the opinion that this theory is not out-of-date yet. Moreover, in the author's view, it still plays an important role not only in the identification of the Confucianism's influence, but also in some current moral theory issues, especially some difficult problems in Western ethics.