The Research On Curriculum Philosophy Of The Unity Of Wisdom And Humanity In The Four Books

The value pursue of the curriculum is not just focus on to transfer knowledge, but how to promote the human nature and spiritual of students. The thinking of the Unity of Wisdom and Humanity of the Four Books offer the important theory resource for the question of how to transcend the restraint of knowledge teaching. The greatest advantage of the Unity of Wisdom and Humanity is that it very emphasize the integration of intelligence and virtue, and this offer thinking resource for solve the question of divorce of intelligence and virtue in curriculum teaching.The goodness of human intrinsic nature is the basis of the Unity of Wisdom and Humanity. In order to educate the virtue of people, we should follow this hypothesis of human nature. The theory of The Goodness of Human Intrinsic Nature of Mencius and Imparting Human Nature and Ch’eng of Chung-yung offer the basis of human nature for the Unity of Wisdom and Humanity. The Unity of Wisdom and Humanity also require intelligence, knowing from learning and Investigation of Things and Extension of Knowledge are the ways to cultivate intelligence. Knowing from learning requires the combination of learning and thinking, the combination of learning and asking, most of all is the cultivation of discrimination. Investigation of Things and Extension of Knowledge is requires people to acquire knowledge from practice. But the goodness of human intrinsic nature and knowing, the virtue of people is not realize yet, so the Unity of Wisdom and Humanity ask for the "the unity of knowing and action". The principle of action is Chung-yung. Chung-yung requires wisdom and humanity, wisdom and humanity are the essences of Chung-yung. Act according to Chung-yung principle is the concrete way of The Unity of Wisdom and Humanity.But there also have some shortage in the Unity of Wisdom and Humanity, that is the wisdom is focus on the moral question, doesn’t include the element of natural science, this is not adapt to the need of society now. So it’s necessary of transfer the Unity of Wisdom and Humanity to The Virtue Intelligence, and point out this should be the core of the curriculum value. And the curriculum teaching should cultivate the Virtue Intelligence of the students to promote them to virtue man. In order to attain this aim, the teachers should break through the restraint of objective knowledge, and reform the teaching process. In the curriculum teaching process,"critical thinking" and "the unity of knowing and action" are the effective strategies to cultivate the students’Virtue Intelligence.