Ethics

The Department of Ethics was established in 1960. Professor Luo Guojie, the founder of the discipline, was a pioneer and founder of the study of modern Chinese ethics. Renmin University's Ethics department was among the first to be approved by the State Council's Academic Degrees Committee to provide master’s degrees in 1981 and doctoral degrees in 1984. In 2000, it was recognized as a Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences by the Ministry of Education and the National Center for the Study of Ethical and Moral Development was established. The Center includes research on Marxist ethics, Chinese ethics, Western ethics, applied ethics, bioethics and global folklore and culture.