Benevolence Depending On Oneself:a Study On Confucius’s Moral Education Thought And Humanistic Value

Xi Jinping pointed out that Confucius and his Confucian ideas reflected the spiritual pursuit of the Chinese nation.It was an important nourishment for the Chinese nation to grow and grow.We should inherit and carry forward the essence of Confucius and Confucianism in accordance with the conditions of the times,and constantly endow it with new meaning.The important instruction of the general secretary is the scientific evaluation of Confucius’s ideological and cultural characteristics,national status and the value of inheritance.It has far-reaching guiding significance for the current ideological and political education.From the general secretary’s judgment,ideological and political education should pay more attention to the relationship between himself and Confucius thought,focus on using the perspective of Ideological and Political Education(moral education)to re examine Confucius thought,construct the theoretical system of Confucius’s moral education and dig into the beneficial resources in depth,and then adhere to Marx doctrine.The basic position of Confucius’s moral education thought "creative transformation and innovative development",uphold the concept of "ancient for the present" to appropriately transform Confucius thought of moral education thought that the current ideological and political education absorption and application.The new evaluation and new orientation of Xi Jinping’s traditional culture view on Confucius’s moral ideology,and the transformation of Ideological and political education from prominent political value and social value into the new opportunity to emphasize political value,social value,cultural value and educating value,and a new interpretation of the connotation and value of Confucius’s moral education thought at present.All of these have extended the research perspective and research scope of Ideological and political education to Confucius two thousand years ago,established the theoretical premise,laid the theoretical foundation and opened the theoretical road.Of course,as the current ideological and political education circles have just entered the rapid development stage of the study of Confucius’s moral education thought,it should be said that there is a great academic space for its value and application.Objectively speaking,the biggest problems and obstacles in the ideological and political education circles at the present stage in the study of Confucius’s moral education lie in how to integrate the theoretical achievements of philosophy,bibliography and ideological history,and to carry out the research perspective and analysis method of Ideological and Political Education(moral education)properly and deeply,to be more comprehensive and profound.The thought of Confucius’s moral education is refined and converted.Therefore,we should appropriately select the traditional philosophical research and historical material research to interpret Confucius’s ideas of moral education,and then use the perspective and method of Ideological and Political Education(moral education)to construct a complete system of Confucius’s moral ideology and find the connection between Confucius’s moral education thought and contemporary Marx and ideological and political education theory.Finding the beneficial resources of Confucius’s moral education thought and giving the transformation and utilization of Ideological and political education appear to be full of innovative significance.Based on the above thinking,this paper,first of all,clarifies some problems of the source theory of Ideological and political education by taking historical generation and concept core as a clue,and points out the environment,conditions and significance of moral education in Confucius’s moral education thought,and then makes a systematic solution to Confucius’s moral ideology by using the perspective of Ideological and Political Education(moral education).In the end,it explores the possibility and premise of the humanistic value of Confucius’s moral education thought and contemporary transformation,and through the rational transformation of it in order to find out the elements that it can draw for and learn from the contemporary ideological and political education.The conclusion of this thesis is that Confucius’s moral education concept shows people’s dignity,highlighting people’s preciousness,cultivating the person’s temperament,molding the person’s personality,supporting the person’s spirit,so it has an important humanistic value.The congruence of Confucius’ thoughts on moral education and man’s free comprehensive development theory,the communicative nature of the ideological and political education paradigm of humanism,the conformity of socialist core values,and the bearing of establishing cultural confidence determine that it has a contemporary transformation possibility.The precondition for the conversion of Confucius thoughts on moral education is to uphold the basic Marxist stance,objectively locating Confucius and its moral education ideas,Insisting on "creative transformation and innovative development".The possible transformation of Confucius’ thoughts on moral education include "the respect of the heaven and life"-cultivating the awe of ideological and political education;people oriented-the humanistic basis of ideological and political education;emotional lead-in-the focus of ideological and political education;"Etiquette" construction-the carrier of the practice of ideological and political education;"Three educations"-the layered design of ideological and political education;close to life-the embarrassing breakthrough of ideological and political education;contemporary "gentleman"-personality construction of ideological and political education.