Research On Cai Yuanpei’s Ethical Thoughts

The Opium War reduced China to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society,and brought a serious disaster to the Chinese nation.Facing the national crisis,a batch of patriotic intellectuals carried out rescue activities through various means.From the late Qing Dynasty to the May 4th New Cultural Movement,advanced intellectuals hoped to enlighten themselves through ideological reform and national character transformation as a way to save lives.Among these intellectuals,Cai Yuanpei is a typical representative.He has made outstanding contributions to ethics.He has explored how to deal with the relationship between ancient and modern Chinese and Western ethical ideas.He advocates critical inheritance of excellent traditional culture,and is based on Cultural exchange between China and the West advocates learning from the West in various fields.Cai Yuanpei promoted the transformation of traditional ethical culture to modern times and played a great role in the liberation of modern Chinese thought.Therefore,Cai Yuanpei’s ethics is a subject worthy of in-depth study.The full text is divided into four parts.The first chapter introduces the meaning of Cai Yuanpei’s ethical thoughts and the current status of scholars’ research on Cai Yuanpei’s ethical thoughts,and explains the research ideas,research methods and innovations of this article.The second chapter discusses the conditions for the generation of Cai Yuanpei’s ethical thought.The formation of Cai Yuanpei’s ethical thought was closely related to the continuous development and changes of China’s anti-imperialism and feudalism at that time.It was also related to the influence of traditional Chinese ethical thought and Western ethical thought on him.The role of personal growth experience.The third chapter expounds the main contents of Cai Yuanpei’s ethical thoughts.First,Cai Yuanpei is based on the understanding of the relationship between ethics and national character formation,the basic issues of ethics,etc.,and is also based on the understanding of traditional ethics and western ethics In the past,the integration of Chinese and Western ethics promoted the construction of modern Chinese ethics.He hopes to lay a theoretical foundation for social moral practice through the construction of modern ethics to realize the enlightenment of ethics and the reshaping of modern national character;secondly,Cai Yuanpei formed a combination of "moral standards","moral cultivation" and "moral personality" His ethics and morality;Finally,Cai Yuanpei put forward the moral education theory led by moral education,"five education,equal education,independent education,aesthetic education,freedom of thought,inclusiveness" and other moral education theories.The fourth chapter is an analysis of Cai Yuanpei’s ethical thought and its contemporary significance.First,Cai Yuanpei pioneered the discipline of Chinese ethics history,reconstructed the Chinese modern ethics system,and promoted the development of modern ethics;second,Cai Yuanpei’s ethical thought The contemporary significance of is that in the process of expanding the construction of citizen morality,it has played a positive role in correcting the phenomenon of social moral anomie,has a great role in promoting the deepening of the people-oriented concept,and has a great reference for the implementation of socialist core values.Significance;third,it has also made important contributions to enriching the contemporary moral education content system and creating a good academic atmosphere to promote college moral education.