本书以儒家伦理文化为基本的研究视阈，对"慎德"的一般意义、道德内涵、历史演变、伦理结构、基本原则、 个体修养、政治实践进行了理论阐述。分析了传统" 慎德"的历史影响和现代价值，将"慎德"置于当代社会的转型时期，赋予其新的伦理精神、道德内涵和理论内容，并总结了"慎德"在中国道德结构中的地 位、特点及其重要性，对其未来发展趋向进行了展望。( This book takes the Confucian ethics culture as the basic research visual threshold, and carries out theoretical elaboration of the general meaning, the moral connotation, the historical evolution, the ethics structure, the basic principle, the individual accomplishment and the political practice of "moral cultivation". It analyzes the historical influence and the modern value of traditional "moral cultivation", places "moral cultivation" in the transformation period of contemporary society, giving it the new spirit of ethics, moral connotation and theoretical content, and summarizes the status, characteristics and importance of "moral cultivation" in Chinese moral structure and looks into its future development trend.)