Xunzi's Morals And Its Modern Value

Xun zi acted as the very important man of Confucianist during the pre-Qin period . the hand-down work "Xun zi" he wrote is a classic work in moral education history of China ancient times . It contains the rich moral education thoughts , such as : moral educational contents,moral educational goal, moral education method. In the moral education goal, Xun zi portrays "the gentleman" the noble personality and "the sage" the ideal personality, simultaneously he observes feudal to a personality level's limits most important standard the etiquette, namely obedient external enlightenment. No matter the gentleman or the sages are so, Xun zi's moral education is brief and to the point, establishes a new school. He warned that the people "the nature has its law", the nature has its inherent rule, the society is a natural part, the human is society's main body, besides should observe the natural law, the human also has its own characteristic; He thought that "the human was angry had the knowledge since birth, and had righteousness, therefore the most world was expensive." Stressed that the reason that the human has righteousness, the human becomes the human is expensively because the human has the benevolence; "nature of the person is wicked, its friendliness is false." He exposit human nature ugly at the same time pointing out that the human has from one side which friendly, does good deeds; So long as the human "That changes does not return means it is at the goal." This indicated that "the evil person" steels through the long-term morals may also transform as "the good man", but "the good man" is the result which the day after tomorrow will educate; "the key to the gentleman is developing entirely" the moral education thought sparkles is promoting the person full scale development glory. Xun zi's moral education method also has own originality, mainly has "making up and repairing" the self-correction method, "the meter but the scenery is just positive" teaches by example the demonstration law, "the festival to lead" and "one good" the psychological adjustment law, "accumulates good deeds to the perfect virtue" fosters the educational method, "poorly, but remembers broadly" will exercise law and so on.. In the present age, to strengthen the thought moral reconstruction, it is necessary to excavate the Xun zi's moral education thought comprehensively and performs reasonable model, entrusts with its new content and realizes its modern transformation. This displays prominently in the current moral education practice the outlook for honor and dishonor education as well as the moral education method diversification theory and in the practice exploration, has a lot of value to the theory. For example: Xun zi "the theory of evil humanity " inspire us how to coordinate relations between the moral and the law, achieves their common advance while carrying on the thought moral reconstruction .To the public moral, the occupational ethics as well as the family morals' construction , Xun zi's view of honor and disgrace has the very beneficial inspiration. Xun zi has bright view regarding the human nature as well as person's ideological and moral education, therefore, to strengthen the citizen 's ideological and moral education and construct socialist harmonious society in the present is a sort of precious thought resources. Certainly, regarding Xun zi's moral education thought, we must insist the dialectical judgment and develops the good part and discard the bad part.