University Canonizes Virtue

As a part of social culture within human society and a social organization, university has a close connection with human life. For human beings, value of university not only lies in pushing the development of human society by education, science research and social service, but also in ethical duty and ethical pursuit for mankind and life, which is formed in the course of university development. The duty and pursuit is a distingue ethical mission for human society and life, which is assumed and actively pursued by scholars and academicians. It is the soul of modern university and embodies its ethical spirit.Being an ethical field,the modern university has a mission to innovate human ethical spirit and explain and transfer human culture. In fact, the modern university is a psychic entity, whose duty and mission forms its ethical character. The core about ethical spirit of modern university is virtue. It is constituted by three contents: canonizing virtue, performing virtue and pursuing ultimate virtue. Canonizing virtue is the beginning of the value orientation about the modern university. Performing virtue is the various rules the modern university brings forward to regulate its behavior. Pursuing ultimate virtue is the modern university's aspiration for the ethical spirit and the ideal of university. From virtue canonizing, virtue performing to the ultimate virtue pursuing, it consists an unbroken...