道德需要是人们基于道德所具有的满足自我与社会的价值、意义的认识和把握而产生的遵守一定道德原则和规范 ,做一个道德人的心理倾向。它作为人的一种特殊的、高级的社会需要 ,其本质具有二重性 ,即功利性和超功利性。这二者紧密联系 ,不可分割 ,有机地统一在道德需要之中。 Moral needs are people’s psychological tendency to be ethical people based on their understanding and mastery of the values ​​and meanings of self and society that they have to meet certain moral principles and norms. As a special and advanced social need of human being, its essence has duality, namely, utilitarianism and super-utilitarianism. The two are closely linked, indivisible and organically integrated into the moral needs.