The Ethical Interpretation Of Cai Yuanpei's The Middle School Textbook Of Cultivate One's Morality

Cai Yuanpei is Chinese modern thinker, democratic revolutionary and educator, he wrote The Middle School Textbook of Cultivate Ones Morality to explain his education ethics thought especially the moral thought between 1942. This paper analysis the reasons why he wrote this book, summarized Cai Yuanpei's Chinese and Western, explain an inclusive eastern and western culture Based on the doctrine of the mean, understand the education is career to develop fully personality which Cai Yuanpei claimed.This paper firstly analyses the reasons behind this book. The school system in the late Qing dynasty, education policy, and the textbooks have appeared changes, The Middle School Textbook of Cultivate Ones Morality birthed without notice conformed to the reform. Cai Yuanpei's education experience has a great impact to the book. The Confucian culture ideas throughout his life, the republican thoughts about advocating morality, respecting for human rights and social status equality and so on are the nutrients of the book. Eastern and western culture is different but not absolutely incompatible. CAI yuanpei fusion of eastern and western culture better together based on the doctrine of the mean, critically inclusived eastern and western culture.The second is the analytical of the practice part of The Middle School Textbook of Cultivate Ones Morality. Uniting the individual completely personality and outward radiation. Cultivating ones morality lies in repairing yourself, this must have a strong body, and this is sports content. Grasping the power to foster intelligence and discernment, and this is the content of intellectual education. Cultivating virtues such as Lutheran, magnanimous revenue, and this is the content of moral education. This work must be done if the want to Cultivate their characters. The individuals cant live without social, the have different obligations when playing different roles. Cai Yuanpei expounds respectively the individuals'obligations in the family, society and countries according to the interpersonal close degree.The third is explaining the theory section in The Middle School Textbook of Cultivate Ones Morality. Mainly expounds the produce of obligation. Follow the conscience of life to achieve the ideal. There are differences between moral behavior and general behavior. Implement ideal to nearly to the good. The ideal is reflecting on defects and restraining own behavior and attain perfect border. The affairs concerning, know the affairs and do it, appears from conscience. The conception of obligation comes from conscience and ideal as the standard. The theory of character, people who get high moral, wisdom, affection and wish can't be neglected. This article mentions the moral essence, distinguishes the moral species, explain the basis and method cultivating characters, and the border that they cultivate their characters.Finally discusses the history status and the content about The Middle School Textbook of Cultivate Ones Morality, and its promotion and enlightenment for Chinese ethics and modern education. A lot of the content enriches the system of Chinese ethics, this book is not just a book about how to cultivate students moral knowledge, but an ethical works which expand the scope of Chinese ethics and promote Chinese ethics. The theory of full personality expresses some kind of eternal, universal concept, and this is the biggest harvest.Cai Yuanpei raises a question: what qualities should be posed when person lives in a good society? And he tried to replying from the angle of the ethics: A good society should be composed by people who have completely personality, and put forward the several qualities the complete personality should posses. This is a spiritual wealth for our country to build harmonious society and develop socialist civilization.