Bona fide (faithfulness) principle has both objective and subjective aspects. Objective faithfulness is an obligation imposed on the subject and has an obvious moral content. Whereas subjective faithfulness is the conviction of an individual of the legality or morality of his action.The separation of subjective and objective faithfulness is gradually accomplished in the process of social development through the shifting of the object of regulation from first possessor to the second possessor. The theory of faithfulness in China is defective in that it is confined to objective faithfulness and therefore, needs to be reconst ructed by drawing on the lasted research results. |