Moral education in traditional moral education

In ancient China, from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, under certain social and historical conditions, such as social interpersonal relationship, highly dispersed natural economy and highly centralized political dictatorship, ethical and moral thoughts gradually formed their own characteristics and had a far-reaching impact on the moral psychology of the Chinese nation. Traditional moral education in China has also formed its own characteristics in the long years.

The Doctrine of the Mean says: "Therefore, a gentleman respects morality and seeks knowledge, making it broad and subtle, extremely clear and moderate. Review the old and know the new, and be sincere and respectful. " This can be said to be a high generalization of the basic principles of China's traditional moral education. The "enlightenment" and "moral education" of China's traditional moral education aim at "moving the goodness of life", and the goal is realistic, not metaphysical; Methods Pay attention to argumentation, not logical analysis; The way is to focus on inspiring internal understanding and achieving behavioral consciousness, rather than focusing on achieving ideological understanding through external practical experience. Therefore, to sum up, the basic characteristics of China's traditional moral education thought are: first, the integration of "moral education" and "self-cultivation"; The second is the combination of "knowing" and "doing"; The third is the integration of "teaching by example" and "teaching by example". This idea of encouraging people to pursue noble spiritual realm and ideal moral personality in traditional morality still has important reference significance in our socialist moral construction today. Ideal moral personality is a mirror of national morality. The general moral and spiritual outlook of a country's people directly determines a country's today and tomorrow. China's modernization and spiritual civilization construction call for us to inherit the precious heritage of China's traditional moral spirit, improve people's socialist moral spirit in real social life, and re-establish a new ideal moral personality with modern ideological characteristics.