The Moral Education Thought Of Wang Yangming And Its Enlightment On Middle School Moral Education

The excellent Chinese tradition culture embodies the fresh spiritual wealth of Chinese nation. As the center in Confucian philosophy of the Song and Ming, Yangming theory has a broad and far-reaching impact on Chinese philosophy. The moral education view of Wang Yangming is the significant part of his philosophy thought, and provide a new perspective to deal with the present moral situation. The positive factors contained in Wang`s thoughts, can be considered as profits of significance to the contemporary idrological and political education, no matter in theory or in practice.With the development of our socilicity, moral education is more and more valued. But there are still many problems in China current moral education in middle school that need our attention and solution, for example, socialist moral items, the separation of the knowledge and practice of moral education, the ambiguity of moral principle, rigidity of the moral practice and so on. The issues mentioned above all need our attention. This paper anaylses the possible reason behind the moral education problem in order to relieve the situation refering to Wang`s moral education theory.Wang Yangming summary his moral education view as the goal of “gain the natural-principles”, the core of “heart is the conscience”, the principle of “unity of knowledge and practice”, and the approach of “educate according to their aptitude”. The thought above has universal values on subjectivity, equality and priority. Though the moral education thought of Wang Yangming is limited to the environment he lived, his moral education thought to ease today’s moral education problem has vital significance.