Yang Xiong’s Thought Of Moral Education And Its Enlightenment To The Moral Construction Of Citizens In The New Era

Yang Xiong(53BC-18),a great Confucian in the late Western Han Dynasty.As a Confucian,a primary school student,a writer and a philosopher,he was a rare scholar with comprehensive achievements and far-reaching influence at that time.Yang Xiong’s moral education thought is rich in content,full of rational spirit,and pays attention to the formulation and practice of moral standards,as well as the happiness brought by kind moral emotion,correct moral judgment and conscious moral practice.The ideological core of Yang Xiong’s moral education thought has something in common with the needs of our citizens’ Moral Construction in the new era.Both of them pursue a higher level of human development through moral construction.The moral outlook in Yang Xiong’s moral education thought is the discussion of the essence of morality,the education outlook is the discussion of moral education itself,and the cultivation outlook is the discussion of moral education practice.Through these three perspectives,we can explain the main content of Yang Xiong’s moral education thought,and explore the theoretical value,practical value and method value of Yang Xiong’s moral education thought,which is of great practical significance.There are many aspects that can be used for reference in Yang Xiong’s moral education thought.Yang Xiong believes that whether the goal and task of moral education of the country and society can be successfully completed depends on whether the moral education system is complete;he attaches great importance to adjusting measures to the situation,and pays attention to the influence of opportunity on people,the importance of people’s need to make rational use of opportunity,and the influence of changes in social environment on ideology;he realizes the complexity and diversity of the process of moral education,and emphasizes the importance of the state to the public When people carry out moral education,they must pay attention to accurate teaching;he attaches importance to experience absorption and investigation practice;his moral education thought highlights personal value,and advocates that virtue depends on personal moral sense,rather than on people’s rational understanding of the external world.However,Yang Xiong’s moral education thought also has its historical limitations.Yang Xiong thinks that moral consciousness,as a part of consciousness activities,should be higher than other human activities.Moral life is the most fundamental in human life,which leads him to the theory of moral determinism;his view of respecting God and Saint leads him to overemphasize the role of educators;the moral education he advocates is the minority moral education that only the feudal ruling class can enjoy,not the national moral Education.The positive and negative experience of Yang Xiong’s moral education provides the moral and cultural foundation and historical experience for the construction of citizen morality in the new era,the ideological source for the construction of citizen morality in the new era,and the cultivation ways and methods for the construction of citizen morality in the new era.