A Study Of Yang Changji 's Moral Education

Yang Changji, whose ethics are profound, is a great ethicist and educator of modern age in China. Following the development of his ethics, this paper is concerned with the discussion of Yang Changji’s ethics. Based on the era and thoughts of his age, this paper has a conclusion of his main thoughts, summarizes the characteristics of his ethics thought, evaluate and summarize his thoughts.In the first chapter, this paper is about the theory premise of Yang Changji’s ethics thoughts. The main purpose of this chapter is to explore the Yang Changji’s ethics built on what sort of time and thought, which is divided into two sections. The first section is about the time background of Yang Changji’s ethics, which is about historical and realistic background of Yang Changji’s ethics thought, emphasizes the social moral decay and warlords. The second section is about Yang Changji’s ethics thought background. Yang Changji was born in a scholarly family and had a good foundation of western ethics. In the second chapter is about the main contents of Yang Changj’s ethics thought, including four aspects, namely the individual culture view, virtue ethics, political ethics thought and education ethics, Yang Changji’s ethics thought. In view of individual self-cultivation, Yang Changji advocates people as a man must resolve and individuals should have certain ideals and ambitions for their own life and society to conform to the existence of the life value; Second on the individual moral cultivation, meditation virtue, with common heart to treat their conscience of the world; Finally with the usual reason about the way of doing things and making things of life. In terms of virtue ethics, it can be divided into individual virtue theory and social virtue theory. Individual virtue theory includes honesty, generosity, kindness and bravery. Social virtue theory includes public virtue and the ambition of saving the nation. In terms of political ethics, his summary of political ethics can be divided into three aspects. One aspect is the reform of political system, which is how to reform the political system in order to make the country stronger in the present chaotic and oppression from foreign countries; second aspect is to promote industrial salvation, that is, from the economic level about the road to salvation; third aspect is to establish patriotism against the intrusion of western powers. In terms of education ethics, Yang Changji mainly expounds his salvation education, intellectual education and basic education ethics thought.. In the third chapter, this paper discusses the characteristics of Yang Changji’s ethics, including the combination of Chinese and western ethics, subjective idealism, the common value and effectiveness of behaviors. In the forth chapter, this paper is about the evaluation of Yang Changji’s ethics, including two aspects:the first aspect is the value of Yang Changji’s ethics, including the influence of Yang Changji’s ethics on the criticism of the Chinese and western ethics, the avocation virtue ethics thought of freedom,equality and self-reliance and the ethics of chairman Mao, Cai Hesheng and other revolutionaries; The second is the deficiency of Yang Changji’s ethics thoughts. His ethics thoughts are lack of theoretical logic and pay much attention to the individualistic.In general, on the one hand, Yang Changji’s ethics thoughts emphasize the cultivation of personal morality and the importance of the theory of individual character and social character; on the other hand, it also criticizes the traditional family ethics in China, putting forward its own political ethics thought and the education ethics thought. His ethics has its era limitations, but he insists that the gentleman should cultivate one’s morality, integrity, courage, love, tolerance and perseverance as the basic virtues of one’s morality. On personal relations with countries, he insists that we should combine the state and the individual. His dialectical thought is that home and country cannot be separated:no home no country; no country, no home. He also insists the importance of patriotism education to young people, which has big significance on our nowadays moral training.