Plato's "Republic" Moral Education Thought

"Ideal country" has been recognized as the dialogue of Platon’s works the most important part, its rich content, scale far in other works. It sets the politics, ethics, ontology, epistemology, on the whole, of virtue, education, poetry, philosophy, politics and science, has an impressive array of beautiful. Platon as the first western education in the history of systematic theory of education thinker, his educational thought is still has some meaning. Based on the "ideal country" moral education thought as the research angle of view, from the Platon era demands on the moral education of the justice and the heart, are discussed as the main line, deep in the works of Platon, the complete look reveals Platon’s thoughts of moral education, and make the evaluation, and investigate its significance to the contemporary education and the precious value.The introduction part presents the research of "Ideological and moral education ideal country" this classic work significance, and points out the research plan and innovation of this paper is based on literature review on the existing, expounds the research method in this paper.The second part of the article will be as much as possible, the life and times of Platon’s moral education thought with the historical background of the emergence, academic origin as a systematic introduction. Platon lives in the frequent wars, moral decline of the age,"ideal country" in almost all the things he wanted a perfect society, he hoped that the city is a kind of moral state, therefore, he called on virtue, called for individual justice.The third part is the third chapter and the fourth chapter of this article, discussed with justice and the mind as the main line. Make Platon puzzled:what is justice. Therefore, based on the state of mind carrying on, he tried to find a new justice, in the city structure and mind structure corresponding to the model therefore, realize the new justice must rely on a new moral education. Education in the beginning, through music education and physical education building young people just mind, cultivate correct moral beliefs, provisions of the content and form of poetry, and the traditional poetry of criticism. The essence of education is the soul of steering, philosophical education becomes the mind to way,"the allegory of the cave" for the mind to process. The philosopher become city really have knowledge of good, only has the city of the person who owns the knowledge of wisdom, only under the rule of philosophers and education, citizenship is the justice of the citizens, the city is the justice. At this point, the formation of a full of justice, moral ideal country.The fourth part, is the reflection of Platon’s thoughts of moral education. The moral education of Platon is the first self perfection as the goal, the second is for the war, in order to maintain the safety of the Greek city-state of athens. The idea is that we have more than two thousand years, with more or less the limitations of the times, we should "take the essence, discard the dross", the respect for human talent education, knowledge education and moral education, the unity of education from childhood education method, provides valuable reference for the contemporary education.