On The Construction Of College Students Ideal Personality

With the call of building a harmonious society, the problem on people goes back to our viewpoint again and causes wide public concern. Social modernization is first the modernization of human beings, and quality talent is the key to construct a harmonious society. Personality, as the topmost object of value of being human beings, embodies people's longing to self-integrity, and personality and ideality will always be the "navigation mark" showing people's life continuously to exceed present nature.Academic field begins to study ideal personality since 80's last century, but the concern on building the ideal personality of undergraduates, the particular unit, just starts at the end of last century and the beginning of this century. People often think ideal personality is nonspecific, but it vividly exits in actual living and leads people's production and life all the time, which is the concentrated embodiment of world view, life view and value view and is scientific and concrete. The paper will put the construction of undergraduate ideal personality under the big background of building a harmonious society, further deepen it on the base of former research, and materialize the standards of ideal personality, enabling undergraduates understand and implement it easily. Then the paper is divided into four parts:The first part defines the connotation and characteristics of ideal personality through presenting the definition of personality. Different disciplines have different understanding on personality in modern or in ancient times, in China or elsewhere. Therefore, the integrated understanding to personality should organically integrate all understandings, to plan as a whole all meanings of personality from the view of philosophy and ethnics and increase it to certain height to become ideal personality.Ideal personality should organically combine wisdom strength, moral strength with will strength, be the trinity of truth, good and beauty and the integration of sociality and singularity, actuality and transcendency, historicity and materiality and certainty and uncertainty.The second part presents the development of eastern, western and Marxist theories on ideal personality. The development of western theory of ideal personality experiences the ancient Greeks and Romans, the Medieval period of European theology, Renaissance and modern and post-modern times. Western philosophers and ideologists are accomplished on the discussion of ideal personality theory, but it is hard for most of them to find the way enabling personal personality comprehensively and healthily develop because of historical limit and class discrimination. The ideal personality in Chinese traditional culture is "Saint" in the Confucian School, "Zhen Ren" in Daoism, "Broad Paragon (Bo Da Wan Ren)" in the Mohist School and "Bodhisattva" in Buddhism. Confucian theory of ideal personality took the leading role among them, but its political moral check, altruism cause the servile personality, enclosed personality and dependent personality of Chinese, which are the obstructive factors to the modernized development of Chinese personality. Marxist ideal personality theory is the unique scientific one, which is the complete theory taking historical materialism as the base stone, comprehensive human nature as precondition, totally free personality development as ultimate thought and the integrated development of the relationship between people and world in social practice as the unique accomplishing way, and is the theoretical base for us to design and practice the ideal personality of undergraduate in socialist times. In addition, the Party and government provide them certain theoretic and practical instruction.The third part discusses the significance and value of building the ideal personality of university students in our present day. At first, the discussion on the problem has important social value, which is reflected and orientated from the mission of higher education and the social responsibility of university students, the particular role. Secondly, it owns strong era significance, and the process of building the ideal personality of university student units with the one of constructing harmonious society, to take tridimensional thought in people occupying their own nature, resolving the conflict between human beings and nature and interacting between people and society, which just are the three important connotations of harmonious society as well. The university is the key stage between the preceding and the following, which make it possible to build the ideal personality of students.The forth part discussed the idea of ideal personality of university student and the ways. The ideal personality of contemporary undergraduates should have the characteristics of pioneering and enterprising, competition and creation and harmony and unity, on conclusion, the paper brings forward the concrete standards of ideal personality of contemporary undergraduates—Four-haves new man, to have ideality, moral, knowledge and discipline, and give the ways to accomplish the ideal personality of university student from all fields.